Trump's Gestapo Raids -- The American Prospect

[erronis]

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-01-27-trumps-gestapo-raids/


U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a person, January 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Maryland.

At around 8 o’clock Sunday morning, in Mountain View, California, four ICE agents in full battlefield regalia followed a resident into a 19-unit apartment building. They carried M15 assault weapons, and had no warrants.

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This was only one of several ICE raids over the weekend. Others took place in Chicago, Boston, Austin, and L.A. Fox News reporters were invited to embed with the agents in Boston and Chicago, capturing the raids on video.

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This stunt suggests the performative aspect of these Gestapo-style raids, as red meat for Trump’s base. Trump has directed that ICE increase its raids and summary deportations, from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500.

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What remains to be seen is how these raids will play with normal Americans. Early polls show that respondents narrowly favor the deportation of migrants who are in the U.S. illegally. But that support falls off sharply when the specifics turn brutal.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. American Prospect has been doing some heavy lifting of late

Glad to see them call it like they see it, because that's exactly what it is.

[erronis]

2. Agree. I'm so glad to see some of these alternative (non MSM) views being broadcast.

Any time I can amplify or propagate them I will.

Since I now longer am bled dry by the subscriptions to the NYT and WaPo.

[MadameButterfly]

3. Its discouraging that so many people support this

Besides the inhumanity, who do they think picks the crops and many other jobs citizens don't want to do? Do they think this will have no repercussions on them? The price of meat, fruit, dairy....Do they think deportation is free? Do they think this will help the economy?

[erronis]

4. Agree. But I don't think they think. They are mindlessly following what they think is some messiah.

I don't understand how people let themselves get caught up in that mindless trap but once they're in, it's hard to reason with them.

(Perhaps they feel exactly the same way about me...)

[MadameButterfly]

6. Yeah, if they were thinkers

we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place

[Comrade Citizen]

5. The surreal thing is

the rapid othering of Guatemalans. The first deportation flights were to Guatemala. The Guatemalan community has been part of our country for many years. Our favorite fast food place is Pollo Campero from Guatemala, which is very popular in Central America. Now its become a war on Chapines.