The Trump administration is really determined to find as many leverage as possible and to use it to force various actors – mainly state and local governments, but also others – to cooperate with the repression of immigration.
Part of this is substantial. Part of this is also atmospheres: the White House tries to instill fear with undocumented migrants to persuade them to leave alone. (In some cases, he even pays them to do exactly that.)
There is no bigger tool to achieve it than soldiers. The spectrum of American troops holding undocumented immigrants evokes both implicit intimidation in the pure power of the American armed forces, and also indicates that the White House remains ready to crush various constitutional barriers in its quest to hold and deport.
And while the prospect of American troops applying immigration law raises a host of perfectly valid civil concerns, for the moment, let’s keep in mind that a large part of this is for the show.
Take a Tuesday CNN report on the administration levels to accelerate immigration raids within the country this summer. According to history, some governors should activate their national guard contingents in a role of support for the federal immigration application. They will not make arrests, according to the report. Rather, they will provide “protection against forces”.
I appreciate the “protection of force” for the transparent theater: it seems difficult, that’s for sure. At the same time, it is far too easy to imagine that the members of the National Guard did not hold anything, the ice made them in the background. Perhaps the secretary of the DHS, Kristi Noem, will be the CAMée as a member of the National Guard offering “protection against forces” to an ice raid. If you are an ice officer and you need “forces protection”, please contact TPM at talk@talkingpointmemo.com.
– Josh Kovensky
Retribution: Tulsi edition
National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard dismissed two officials of the National Intelligence Council only a few weeks after the Council published a report which concluded that the government of Venezuela seemed not to control the activities of Tren of Aragua, reported the Washington Post. He also found that Venezuelan officials did not lead gang activities in the United States. The Council is apolitical and used to examine information and give classified assessments of information to the president or to the legislators.
The report, of course, contradicts the legal justification of the Trump administration to invoke the law on extraterrestrial enemies and expel the polar Venezuelans suspected of having links with Tren de Aragua. Suspected does a lot of work here, because officials of the Trump administration are counting on deeply fragile “evidence” to accuse migrants from links with the gang. Gabbard, according to the post, dismissed the acting president of the Council Michael Collins and his assistant Maria Langan-Riekhof. It is not the first time that it has promulgated punishment on civil servants who are not perceived as sufficiently favorable to Trump’s agenda. The classification democrat of the Intelligence Committee of the Chamber gave the post the following declaration, articulation well the heart of the question:
“I am concerned about the appearance of the abolition of senior officials of the National Intelligence Council without any explanation, except waves accusations made in the media,” said representative Jim Himes (Connecticut), the classification democrat of the Chamber’s intelligence committee. “In the absence of evidence to justify layoffs, the workforce can only conclude that their work depends on the production of analyzes that align with the president’s agenda, rather than truthful and apolitical.”
– Nicole Lafond
The links of the official of Trump’s administrator with Nick Fuentes
Tom Dreisbach, of NPR, reports an irony at the heart of the Trump administration – that for all his speeches to fight anti -Semitism, he himself has been supplied with figures that have links with anti -Semites.
Take the case of Paul Ingrassia, the affair of the White House at the Ministry of Internal Security, which, writes Dreisbach, “has links with several figures widely known to promote anti -Semitism”. Among them, Nick Fuentes, the young white nationalist bounding the holocaust who benefits from enormous online follow -up. Dreisbach spoke with Amanda Moore, a columnist from the far right, who noticed Ulessia during a Fuentes rally in June 2024 and wrote on this subject.
During this gathering, the crowd chanted “Down with Israel!”
“I don’t know about you,” Fuentes told his supporters at another time, “but calling Donald Trump a racist only makes me anymore.”
Ingrassia stayed 20 minutes, by Moore.
Dark irony, of course, is that this same administration justifies some of its most prominent deportation attempts and attacks against universities by describing them as efforts to eliminate anti -Semitism.
This is also an example of what, in January of this year, the writer John Ganz described as the “Groyperification” of the young law, using the term – Groyper – that the supporters of Fuentes are autonomous. Ganz:
Here is the thing to understand: each person under says, the age of 40 on the right is exposed to extremely high levels of Groyper content every day in group cats, on their social media deadlines, in discorded discussions, etc. Groyperism completely suffocates the cultural environment of the right. While the consumer media always pursue masters and hidden intellectuals shaping the consensus of the elite, the real story is that the right -handers consider opinions and trends among Groypers as much more interesting and important than respectable intellectuals. Many right -handers in staff and media posts are essentially Groypers or seek to imitate them as much as possible. For the right, they are both the avant-garde and the masses.
– John Light
At least he is right about something
RFK Jr. recognized during a hearing of the credit committee of the House on Wednesday that we have all thought for some time. By NBC News:
The secretary of health and social services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., bypassed a question on vaccines on Wednesday and if he would choose to vaccinate his children today against a certain number of diseases, saying: “I do not think that people should take medical advice on my part.”
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