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President Donald Trump deployed the military to
repress demonstrations in Los Angeles, California,
as protesters flooded the streets to denounce the
abuse of immigrants by US Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE).</p>
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style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Trump
sent at least </span><a
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members of the National Guard</a><span>.</span></p>
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is the </span><a
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that a US president has deployed troops to a
state without the approval of its governor.</span></p>
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style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
office of California's Governor Gavin Newsom
condemned Trump's move as an "</span><a
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Los Angeles</a><span>\u201d, and filed a lawsuit
seeking to block the president and Department of
Defense from taking control of a California
National Guard unit.</span></p>
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police shoot protesters and journalists</h3>
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style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
police and troops in Los Angeles have been
extremely aggressive. They have indiscriminately
shot not only protesters, but also journalists.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
fact, a diplomatic scandal was unleashed after a
militarized LA police officer shot an Australian
journalist while she was transmitting live on
TV. This led Australia's prime minister, Anthony
Albanese, to </span><a
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government</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Other
journalists in LA also reported being </span><a
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authorities</a><span>. This was not an isolated
incident; it was an intentional tactic.</span></p>
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empire\u2019s violence comes home</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">What
this demonstrates is how the brutally violent
policies carried out by the US empire around the
world -- in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria,
Libya, and Palestine, and all across Latin America
-- eventually come home. Those repressive tactics
are turned against people in the United States.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
is clear in the heavy militarization of the
police. It is common for US police departments to
have armored vehicles and military-grade
equipment.</p>
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<p
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one of the main reasons there are so many
immigrants in the United States is that the US
government has destabilized many countries,
particularly those of Latin America.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
US military has intervened in almost every country
in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington has
sponsored dozens of coups and regime-change
operations in the region, overthrowing and
destabilizing democratically elected governments
while propping up corrupt right-wing authoritarian
regimes.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
US arms industry has also fueled violence in the
region. US officials have admitted that
practically all of the violence committed by
drug cartels in Mexico is </span><a
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weapons</a><span>. The Mexican government has
formally complained, because murderous </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/da4b3c36-320f-4219-8cea-7d81724ed148?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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moz-do-not-send="true">cartels are constantly
using US military equipment</a><span>. </span></p>
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style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Trump
has continued these aggressive interventionist
policies. During his first term as US president,
he sponsored violent </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8e90aa72-37ed-4f3f-a261-8be54eedab7a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">coup attempts in
Nicaragua in 2018 </a><span>and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/1c20c6e8-ac5f-4b12-8b87-d13ccb80e1f2?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Venezuela in 2019</a><span>.
These failed, but the US-backed coup succeeded
in Bolivia in 2019.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Trump
was not the first US president to impose illegal
unilateral sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela (that
is bipartisan imperialism). However, he
tightened the suffocating economic blockades on
both countries, which devastated their economies
and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/15727446-022e-472c-8b84-98d6aef3ddf6?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">caused high levels of
outward migration</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Now
in his second term, Trump is using very extreme
rhetoric to dehumanize protesters who support the
human rights of immigrants. It sounds like he is
waging a war against his own country.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
a speech before US soldiers, Trump claimed he
needed to use extreme force to supposedly stop
the country from being \u201cdestroyed by </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/691cae8a-64ca-4387-ae71-d02656f496c6?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">invasion and Third-World
lawlessness</a><span>\u201d.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
response to Trump\u2019s colonial discourse, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/c7a00a2d-0e96-47e2-8579-58ceeadcaf88?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">uniformed US soldiers
cheered</a><span>. It was a clear incitement to
violence against immigrants and Latino US
citizens, enthusiastically endorsed by the US
military.</span></p>
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<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: oklch(from var(--color-bg-accent-themed) l c h / 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Foreign
flags not allowed (except for Israel\u2019s)</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
harshly condemned protesters in Los Angeles
because some waved the flags of foreign countries
\u2014 particularly those of Mexico and Central
American nations like Honduras, El Salvador, and
Guatemala. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Millions
of people in the United States have familial
origins in those countries, including not only
many immigrants but also people who have
citizenship and permanent residency in the US.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">However,
the far-right US president claimed protesters
waving the flags of Latin American countries
constituted a supposed \u201cfull-blown assault on \u2026
national sovereignty\u201d.</p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
is deeply ironic, because the US government has
supported violent riots, coup attempts, and \u201ccolor
revolutions\u201d in foreign countries, where
US-sponsored insurgents often wave the US flag.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
2019 and 2020, the US government backed violent
riots in Hong Kong, which aimed to demonize and
destabilize the People\u2019s Republic of China.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Many
of these US-backed insurgents, who were attacking
police and destroying public property, were also
waving US flags. Some rioters even printed out
large banners asking Trump (who was in his first
term as US president at the time) to \u201cmake Hong
Kong great again\u201d.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>\u201c</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/b2d5ee66-3e02-4ec4-998d-5de1373fcabb?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">President Trump, please
liberate Hong Kong</a><span>\u201d, said insurgents
who wanted the US military to intervene.</span></p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>What
is even more hypocritical, however, is that
Donald Trump has no problem appearing at </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5c721667-140b-4d00-aa87-27fb45896b7b?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">events with the Israeli
flag</a><span>. He does so regularly \u2014 and he
said he is \u201cproud to be the best friend that
Israel has ever had\u201d.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
fact, it is common for US politicians to display
the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d4e532de-2d3b-41f4-a5f4-deba241eacc4?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Israeli flag in their
congressional office</a><span> in Washington \u2014
especially Republicans who are allied with
Trump. </span></p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>So
the issue is not really about foreign flags.
Rather, it is about the flags of </span><em>certain
countries</em><span> that the US empire doesn't
like. </span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
is especially the case for Palestine. </p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: oklch(from var(--color-bg-accent-themed) l c h / 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">The
Trump admin arrests and deports law-abiding
immigrants for protesting US-Israeli genocide in
Gaza</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Trump
has boasted that he is doing everything he can
to </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/27f548f4-7ea0-4598-b553-b7827770f230?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">deport pro-Palestine
protesters</a><span>, including those with
lawful residency.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Marco
Rubio (who is probably the most powerful person
in the US government after Trump himself, as he
is simultaneously serving as secretary of state
and national security adviser) boasted that the
State Department </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/dce531e5-1d3d-42a7-ad12-fc91f963a3d0?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">canceled the visas of
more than 300 people</a><span> because they
expressed support for Palestine and criticized
Israel.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>So
the message from the Trump administration is
very clear: If you protest against the
US-sponsored </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ab4bf115-eeea-4390-8217-83f76ab0346e?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">genocide in Gaza</a><span>,
then you will be arrested and deported. Even if
you have a visa and legal residency, it will be
canceled by the US government.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
fact, the Trump administration ordered the
arrest of a Palestinian graduate student at
Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, who had a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/e580dfc3-bdaf-49d8-ab60-3af225f528e4?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">green card</a><span> and
was abiding by all US immigration law. He was
not undocumented, but he dared to use his free
speech rights to criticize a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/4113af60-35be-42eb-ae3b-596e6999f484?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">US-Israeli genocide
against his people</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
a flagrant attack on the First Amendment, the
Trump administration is doing everything it can
to deport Khalil. Rubio admitted that it is </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/dce531e5-1d3d-42a7-ad12-fc91f963a3d0?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">because of his political
views</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Moreover,
the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ca7e400f-5dcf-4695-9cdd-462f74558bc9?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">arrested Khalil without a
warrant</a><span>, in a clearly illegal act.</span></p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: oklch(from var(--color-bg-accent-themed) l c h / 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">ICE
targets children and law-abiding immigrants</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Trump administration\u2019s use of ICE as a tool to
arrest and deport pro-Palestine activists is just
one example of how the agency has acted lawlessly,
as a political tool of repression.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Trump administration is blatantly violating US law
to make the lives of immigrants hell.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">There
are many cases of legal residents in the US who
have been abused and arrested by ICE.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
May, a father of four who had lived in the US
for 12 years was detained by ICE \u2014 </span><em><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/22e2ad95-3d9b-49dd-9fce-833c69620a9b?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">at his US citizenship
interview</a></em><span>!</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
fact, a few days before the protests broke out,
ICE detained undocumented immigrants who were
abiding by US law and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5311dbb5-8327-43a9-9bd5-7bbe9a5120a6?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">attending their check-in
appointments</a><span>. They were thrown into
rooms in the basement of a federal building,
crammed in with dozens of people, no beds, and
little food and water.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
falsely claims that he is targeting criminals, but
in reality ICE is primarily going after immigrants
who have not committed any crimes. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>ICE
has been </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/95143ede-1918-400b-a780-6126d4f4fe38?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">detaining high school
students</a><span>. In California, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/656669bd-712f-4a4d-b0a6-b8a832df19cd?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">ICE detained a 9-year-old</a><span>,
who will now be deported to Honduras.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Moreover,
ICE has arrested and deported immigrants simply
for having tattoos. The American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) got access to internal documents
that show that </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/352b39a5-8293-4174-b506-5ef71b1ec0d1?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">ICE is using random
photos from Google</a><span> to absurdly claim
that tattoos of a star, a crown, or Michael
Jordan are \u201cgang symbols\u201d.</span></p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>In
some cases, immigrants in the US have been
deported and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/45439109-68d6-497d-972a-0c8fc2309a0f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">imprisoned in El
Salvador, without charge or trial</a><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>It
should also be stressed that studies by social
scientists have found that </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/cd648f8f-9c17-4a13-9cca-fc9620ed0834?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">immigrants commit
significantly fewer crimes</a><span> than people
born in the US.</span></p>
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<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: oklch(from var(--color-bg-accent-themed) l c h / 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">ICE\u2019s
lawless reign of terror</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Wall Street Journal published a story that
provides the shocking details of how, under Trump,
ICE has essentially been acting as a lawless
paramilitary group.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Wall Street Journal is a conservative-leaning
newspaper; it is by no means anti-Trump. Alongside
Fox News, the Journal is owned by owned by News
Corp, the right-wing media conglomerate founded
and previously chaired by Rupert Murdoch, a
billionaire oligarch media mogul who has strongly
supported the Republican Party.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Despite
its bias, the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/195a0543-8c6d-49b9-95e5-b73126dcce69?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Wall Street Journal
revealed</a><span> how the Trump administration
is acting viciously and lawlessly.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
newspaper reported that Trump\u2019s top aide Stephen
Miller, a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/b69d2e16-4d4c-4513-9247-d6c58681ff2b?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">far-right white
nationalist</a><span>, ordered ICE to deport as
many immigrants as possible. The main target of
these deportations is </span><em>not</em><span>
criminals and gang members, the newspaper
stressed.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
Journal wrote:</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Agents
didn\u2019t need to develop target lists of
immigrants suspected of being in the U.S.
illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said.
Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot,
where day laborers typically gather for hire, or
7-Eleven convenience stores.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u2026</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">ICE
agents appeared to follow Miller\u2019s tip and
conducted an immigration sweep [on June 6] at
the Home Depot in the predominantly Latino
neighborhood of Westlake in Los Angeles, helping
set off a weekend of protests around Los Angeles
County, including at the federal detention
center in the city\u2019s downtown.</p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">According
to the Wall Street Journal, \u201cThere are no written
directives, but [ICE] officers have been told to
\u2018do what you need to do\u2019 to make more arrests\u201d.
This means going after hard-working immigrants and
children. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
newspaper described the extremely aggressive
tactics ICE is using, which clearly violate US law
and basic civil liberties. It wrote (emphasis
added):</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>Federal
agents make warrantless arrests. Masked agents
take people into custody without identifying
themselves. Plainclothes agents in at least a
dozen cities have arrested migrants who showed
up to their court hearings</strong><span>. And
across the U.S., people suspected of being in
the country illegally are </span><strong>disappearing
into the federal detention system without
notice to families or lawyers</strong><span>,
according to attorneys, witnesses and
officials.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
Coral Springs, Fla., at least eight agents in
tactical gear, shields and rifles surrounded a
home with guns raised to arrest a father with no
criminal history. In Irvine, Calif., ICE agents
drove a phalanx of military vehicles in the
Orange County suburb to arrest a person, though
not for illegal immigration. They were seeking a
resident\u2019s son who had allegedly posted fliers
alerting neighbors to the presence of ICE
agents.</p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">All
of this demonstrates why there have been large
protests in Los Angeles, and why they have spread
to other major cities across the United States.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">It
is not only immigrants, but also many US-born
citizens who are participating in these
demonstrations. They are making it clear that they
are not going to tolerate the government\u2019s
dehumanization of millions of people.</p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: oklch(from var(--color-bg-accent-themed) l c h / 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Trump:
a billionaire scapegoating the poor while serving
the rich</h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>ICE\u2019s
abuse of immigrants is not new. It also happened
under Democrats like Joe Biden and Barack Obama
\u2014 whose brutality earned him the moniker \u201c</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ac34f02e-47c4-44a5-8ce3-549641afda33?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">deporter-in-chief</a><span>\u201d.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">However,
Trump has taken the repression to a whole new
level. His administration is giving ICE free rein,
encouraging agents to do whatever they want, to
violate US law, in order to terrorize immigrants.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
is also massively expanding the repressive parts
of the state \u2014 while cutting spending on
healthcare, education, and social programs.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/6301f4e6-5284-4882-b203-77374f2f6bab?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Trump\u2019s 2026 budget</a><span>
will increase the US military budget to more
than $1 trillion, while giving significantly
more resources to the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS).</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>DHS
is notorious for its </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/650f5843-dbcb-43d6-ae67-d3a10aba6543?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">authoritarian repression</a><span>.
It also oversees ICE.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
is expanding the budget of DHS from $65 billion to
$107 billion. That is an increase of 65%, in just
one year.</p>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
is all part of the US government\u2019s strategy to
scapegoat immigrants for problems that were
actually caused by billionaire oligarchs \u2014 like
Trump and his allies. </p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8860e05f-ba6c-4896-8966-61efeb298592?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Trump chose 13
billionaires to fill his administration</a><span>.
The billionaire US president has surrounded
himself with some of the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/cfa6776c-35fe-44bd-808d-e856d76ff19c?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">richest oligarchs in the
world</a><span>. </span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">These
oligarchs and the big corporations they run barely
pay any taxes \u2014 and Trump is cutting those taxes
even further.</p>
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width="1456" style="text-align: center;"><a
class="image-link" target="_blank"
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Trump\u2019s oligarch allies fuel poverty,
homelessness, and extreme inequality, he
scapegoats immigrants. He blames some of the
poorest, most marginalized people in US society
for its many problems, while serving the rich and
powerful. It is a cynical class war.</p>
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