AOC: "I don't think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE."

[littlemissmartypants]

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) 2025-07-03T18:58:41.345Z

[Ping Tung]

1. Trump's setting up his own private army. See SA/SS for precedents.

[markodochartaigh]

19. ICE

is part of the Department of Homeland Security. The Department of Homeland Security is a part of the Executive branch.

I think that a lot of people don't realize exactly how clear this is.

[Irish_Dem]

31. And many of the ICE Nazis are criminals.

[Dixiegrrrl]

83. Absolutely.

And Stephen Miller is his right hand man for it.

[regnaD kciN]

2. It also lets Trump and the dog-killer create their own army...

…that will be heavily armed and picked on the sole basis of their loyalty to MAGA.

If anyone thinks they’re only going to be used against undocumented immigrants, they’re fooling themselves.

[underpants]

4. Hunger Games "Peacekeepers"

[Bvb1979]

21. Dog killer nice reference.

You realize that serial killers harm animals first and then move on to humans. You can check it out. It's one thing and they have in common. Ted Bundy Jeffrey Dahmer etc. why did she not take it to a vet it was only 14 months old.Did she mistreated the dog to that point like they do to bulldogs to fight each other.It attack stuff why? It's obvious that she did not put the dog on a chain it's her fault. Killing like that is a profile that someone like that would become a serial killer. That explains why she likes doing harm to people. I am.criminolgy major who can profile criminals on the actions that they do.Nurses killing patients there are female serial killers they get turned on.

[DENVERPOPS]

30. I am sure that you could also tell us

about children who mistreat animals/pets because of their being mistreated physically by parent(s)

[underpants]

3. How long before we start calling them "Peacekeepers"?

[markodochartaigh]

20. Peacekeepers

for peace in The Homeland. Warfighters for War abroad.

A slogan with a rhythm to goosestep to.

[Ocelot II]

5. Considering that it's hard even for cities to find qualified police officers, what kind of thugs

will apply for and get ICE jobs? Law enforcement tends to attract authoritarian personalities anyhow, but there's usually some screening involved to weed out the real crazies. To hire this many ICE agents they'll have to lower standards to the point where anybody with a pulse, functioning limbs and the ability to operate firearms will be welcome. Extra points for a history of assault or domestic violence.

[Harker]

10. I'm expecting many Jan6 "veterans."

[DENVERPOPS]

32. Not only the J6 crowd that was

in Jail, but the ones that hadn't yet been caught and convicted, along with all their bestest buddies back home, including the ones in all the Militias spread out across the nation that he told to Stand Back, and Stand By...................The entire Proud Boys crowd, along with the Oath Keepers, etc

They all will be overjoyed to be with tons of others just like them. All paid handsomely to act out their psychopathic tendencies......
They will all be in heaven............

[Harker]

41. Yes, they have the budgetary green light to equip and train them to the max.

So much for the "well regulated" bit of the second amendment.

[DENVERPOPS]

59. they probably have been

secretly organizing them since even before he took office. Much like the tents and runway down in Florida that just "sprung up" out of nowhere....
I am guessing that the Runway down there is capable of massive U.S. Military transport aircraft to fly the prisoners to any other country non stop??
And capable of Air Force One landing/taking off on it?????????

[Harker]

62. I'd bet Miller started sketching this stuff out in his High School notebooks.

[Tadpole Raisin]

29. The ones kicked off for abuse and worse. I'm sure they are applying in droves and

they will be welcomed with open arms.

[quakerboy]

67. Loyalty and Cruelty

Other qualifications are basically irrelevant to be in trumps army.


The fact that we, Democrats (biden, on down to us individual voters, all inclusive) allowed ICE to continue to exist unchecked after they made themselves available to kidnap citizens protesting during the first trump regime will go down as one of the bigger mistakes in our history. If we get to have a history after this.

[czarjak]

75. Deep State Police State

I went to high school with several assholes that knew they were headed for law enforcement careers because "You get to be The Boss." At least four came from police families too.

[returnee]

96. Much of maga is ex-military. n/t

[patphil]

6. It'll be an army to rival Hitler's Brown Shirts.

That's just one of the nasty surprises hidden in this Big Ugly Bill.

[DENVERPOPS]

33. You can bet

that he will come up with a special uniform for all of them to wear, and pay them handsomely. Far better than if they were the suckers and losers in the Military.
Knowing what an idol/mentor Hitler was to Trump, the uniforms actually be close to Hitler's brownshirts......

[Harker]

42. Blue, with white shirts and red ties, or back to the khaki pants with white polo shirts?

[DENVERPOPS]

56. And all of us will only be allowed

to wear out in public, a garment with a Russian Flag patch on it..............

[Harker]

57. That's why I always call him Trumpsky.

[DENVERPOPS]

60. good call....Harker NC

[BurnDoubt]

72. I already knew...

Unis from Ivanka's Chinese sweatshops.
That's been in the brew since 2016, interrupted by four years of Sanity. It's on now, but on the down-low. Jared needs cover for his grifts.

[kentuck]

7. Amen to that!

How could they not see?

[justhanginon]

8. They saw, they just do not care! The republican party just reeks with cruelty to the citizens they supposedly represent.

[Harker]

11. They're all in.

[regnaD kciN]

52. They figure they only "represent" white rural evangelicals...

...and don't think they'll be the ones targeted.

[Johonny]

9. Mostly what I think will happen is waste, fraud, and abuse

This is like when Trump expanded border patrols, and you had agents basically guarding areas where there was no one around. They were sleeping in their vehicles and bored shitless.

Expect a lot of expensive gadgets to be purchased that get little to no use, and graft. I predict mostly you will see this as a slush fund of graft. You will see seven-figure salaries for people who do little more than watch empty cages in swamps.

Meanwhile, immigration is dropping fast, and there is going to be a real shortage of workers starting now. It will only get worse, and this money spent on ICE won't stimulate the economy at all.

[not fooled]

16. Well, when you crash the economy at the same time

who needs workers? Problem solved!

[DENVERPOPS]

34. Read or re-read

Steinbeck's pulitzer winning book: Grapes of Wrath to get a feel of what the Great Depression was like for the common people......the day by day accounting of what it was like for the thousands of people in "Hoovervilles"

[Harker]

44. I'm about to reread "The Moon is Down."

[DENVERPOPS]

46. THX

I will check it out.......

[Harker]

48. You bet. I should reread "The Grapes of Wrath", and I appreciate you mentioning it.

[DENVERPOPS]

53. I read it in 8th grade

a thousand years ago along with ANIMAL FARM.

I re-read both recently and WOW, a much different take on them with an adult mind and having seen the past 63 years unfold....

[Harker]

55. You're on it. Good books meanings do change with us.

I keep the 4 volume "Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters" of Orwell on a shelf in the bedroom, and dip in frequently.

[DENVERPOPS]

71. just ordered a copy

thanks for the tip..............

[Timeflyer]

79. I've been thinking about that one, too. The Norwegian resistance during WWII. Need all the inspiration we can get.

[Harker]

81. It seems wise to look to the literature of resistance.

We know the sources from which Trumpsky, Miller, et al. derive their inspiration...

[Dixiegrrrl]

84. Re-reading the Diary of Anne Frank.

Happily good books are still on the internet, but I have them in a file also, because the Internet will be controlled if this keeps up.

[Dixiegrrrl]

85. Internet control starting now

Found this after I posted above:

https://democraticunderground.com/10143490546

[Harker]

86. Good selection.

Yes, privacy is getting scarce, and respect for it scarcer still.

[mountain grammy]

28. Kristi will get her own plane.

The ICE gestapo will all get brand new brown shirts.

[Johonny]

45. And her friends freat new jobs at high salaries

With expensive conferences in exotic places.

[DENVERPOPS]

50. You betcha

as they say in the Dakotas................But now Trump and the Republicans will upgrade her to a Gulfsteam 650

People are already cutting back on Airline travel............seems the less people will be making, the less they will travel, especially by airlines.

The Auto Industry is already in the throes of bankruptcy, maybe the airlines will all be wiped out also?

Countless numbers of the Corporations that flooded the Republicans with massive amounts of Donor money are too short sighted to think beyond their noses and realize their future may be destroyed.......Like health care, hospitals, insurance businesses, vacation businesses like Disneyland, Cruise ship industry...........etc etc etc, the list is endless.......The dominoes will cascade down like a house of cards.......

Trump may want to build a huge military guarded wall on the northern end of Florida, and move all his Politicians and Uber wealthy 1%ers down there.........

[BurnDoubt]

73. No...

I think Gaza. He's already dibs-ed it. Golden Dome for Me... Jack-Shit for you!

[Escape]

78. Good Post, Johonny

Everything Trump touches turns to shit. It is comforting to consider that his Big Beautiful Nazi Police Force will probably more closely resemble the Keystone Cops.

Large groups of heavily armed, mentally challenged, highly unqualified boobs policing America. What could possibly go wrong?

[IronLionZion]

12. Does congress have any oversight of ICE?

Congresspeople should demand to know more about who this administration is hiring for ICE. Something tells me these douchebags may have criminal convictions and/or can't pass background checks.

[Conjuay]

14. Congress? You mean THIS Congress?

The ink stamp republicans?
(sigh...)
I don't know what to tell you.

[IronLionZion]

17. They've held hearings on SignalGate and similar stuff

they should be able to get some investigation/hearing on ICE.

[DENVERPOPS]

36. Pathetically

the investigations so far, are akin to peeing into the ocean and expecting it to change color......or many were like pissing into the wind...

[Harker]

47. They've already arrested a congressional representative and a mayor. who were trying to inspect a holding facility.

I doubt inquiries will reveal much that they won't divulge gratuitously.

[HighFired49]

43. Nope

ICE is part of Homeland Security and is part of the Executive Branch.

[Klarkashton]

13. It's utterly inefficient too. Those assholes have been

Wandering around in Los Angeles in large numbers for the last month and they have rousted something like 1800 people.

[lostincalifornia]

15. Trump said if he had a second term he would begin mass deportations across the country.

"Project 2025 directs ICE to take into custody undocumented immigrants with records for felonies, crimes of violence, DUIs, previous removals along with "any other crime that is considered a national security or public safety threat as defined under current laws."

That's already the law, said Angela Kelley, senior advisor at the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
If a foreign national is arrested for a crime, their legal status is checked and a hold can be placed on their ability to be released, she explained."

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/08/trump-maga-immigration-project-2025

VP Harris and Democrats warned us.

[riversedge]

82. And in the meantime, crops, vegs, fruits are rotting in the fields. I am not

saying that immigrants should work for below market price. But we USA folks are not taking up the slack.

[Gymbo]

18. They finally sold me, I am no longer reluctant.

I'm off to my local 2A store.

[mountain grammy]

22. This is really terrifying

giving so much $$$ and power to Nazis

[DENVERPOPS]

37. AND EVEN WORSE

TAKING IT AWAY FROM US, IN EVEN BIGGER AMOUNTS TO GIVE IT TO THE TOP 1%ER BILLIONAIRES, AND ZILLIONAIRES...........

[Just Jerome]

23. If you listen,

you can hear Pastor Niemoller a little more clearly each day. He’s getting closer.

[wolfie001]

24. ICE's new name: US Department of Interior Racism

[Just Jerome]

25. State Department

will be the Hate Department.

Gotta love the Orwellian ring!

[wolfie001]

26. Perfecto! Kudos!

Laugh then cry.......

[Traildogbob]

80. I can not wait

For the release of John Fugelsang’s book “Separation of Church and Hate” in August.
This current adaptation of Church is PURE HATE. Raking in cash for it too. God’s is all, “fuck it, I’m out, you win Satan, it’s all yours. Have fun”
Trump is not using make up, his face gets burned each night as he sits by Satan in Hell late at night and he post’s more hate at the Red Man’s man’s command.
OK, to be politically correct, Satan could be a women. GQP females have proven they are equally evil. Noem and that pruned old ass Virginia Fox. (there is a long list)
She is still pissed those damn Yankees came and ripped her slaves away when she turned 21 and bought her a few dozen.

[Evolve Dammit]

27. AOC is spot on, as usual. And Hakeem did a great job today.

[2na fisherman]

35. Pretext for martial law?

They're setting up the conditions whereby the eventual armed resistance to ICE by some citizens will be met with the complete militarization of all police forces against all citizens. Immigration enforcement is just a ruse to get people accustomed to the idea of being targeted for random arrests on trumped-up charges.

[DENVERPOPS]

39. TRUMP has started provoking

people since day one......He came close in L.A. He is primed and ready for the smallest resistance to justify him to enable the Insurrection Act, ignore the Posse Comatatus Act, use the entire U.S. military, National Guard and reserves, for any and all civilian uprisings by declaring Martial Law across the nation.......especially in Blue States.
Then, saying he doesn't have enough troops, will start shutting down bases in NATO countries and bringing those soldiers back home to fortify his troops. Naturally the first NATO country bases to be closed will be in the countries bordering Russia, to appease his boss Putin, so Putin can start invading the countries he wants............

BTW: Trump just withdrew ALL shipments of ALL military weapons being supplied to Ukraine as a giant BJ to Putin.......

[peggysue2]

40. Absolutely agree

They're selling this as immigration enforcement but the end game is population control when even the dimwits realize what this bill and the weaponization of our remaining institutions really means.

Even for them.

Step out of line? Grumble about Dear Leader to the wrong neighbor? There's always room at Alligator Alcatraz.

We're all vulnerable immigrants now. Only our numbers and solidarity offer any strength and/or future protection.

The powers that now be want us isolated, uninformed and afraid.

[orangecrush]

70. Welcome to DU

[Dixiegrrrl]

87. "Trumped up" charges literally. Sigh.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

92. Welcome to DU

[LetMyPeopleVote]

97. Welcome to Du

[Joinfortmill]

38. It's the fucking Gestapo. God help us.

[Harker]

51. Stephen Miller's jackboots and peaked cap are about to come out of the closet.

[Kablooie]

49. Soon Trumps opposition will start disappearing.

I’m sure this is in the future.

[dem4decades]

54. Who will be Trump's first Navalny?

[Harker]

58. Joe Biden.

[LiberalLovinLug]

61. Including this website!

[Harker]

63. We'll have to arrange a clandestine meet-up.

I'll be the guy with the phony glasses-nose-moustache combo.

[The Wizard]

64. ICE is

the updated Gestapo / Proud Boys

[Wuddles440]

65. Actually the expansion of our contemporary...

version of the Gestapo (aka ICE) was the most critical element of this legislation! The other items such as the devastating cuts to Medicaid/SNAP, extending the tax subsidies to billionaires and corporations, etc. were just a distraction from their main objective.

[luvallpeeps]

66. Felt it coming.

If anyone paid any attention, you could see it was gonna happen. They are blood thirsty, and pulling out all the stops. God help us.

[quakerboy]

68. Ive watched a few movies

I think those of us who paid attention during Schindler's list have an idea.

I care about the cuts to aid for people. But I expect that of republicans. I care about increased debt and taxbreaks targeting the rich. But I expect that of republicans.

The fact that any center, left, or just realist news organization hasn't spent the last two weeks talking about the huge enlargement of concentration camps and an internal army under Trumps personal purview has baffled me. The rest of the bill suck. The children that will starve, the elders that will be kicked out on the street, the many many people who will get sick, disabled, and die. But the fact that there is absolutely no reason for the ICE budget other than preparing to suppress dissent in the USA, and not a single major news org that I have seen have even discussed the possibilty.. yeah. This aint good.

[malthaussen]

69. Frankly, I think that's missing the point.

It's not wrong, but with DJT everything is about the grift. Congress is signing off on a 150 billion dollar barrel of pork to further line the pockets of the rich and the politicians they own. This whole immigration shtick is about transferring even more wealth from the taxpayers to the rich, because the GOP is determined to find out if you really can get blood from a stone if you squeeze hard enough.

-- Mal

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

91. The USNazi concentration camp head Nazis will get rich quick

as will Dear Leader with all that filthy lucre at their disposal.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

74. Obviously gardening while brown is a bigger crime than white collar crime or light skinned terrorism

... and bigger than hunting the Vice President and Speaker to assassinate them to stop the peaceful transfer of power Jan 6.

[Susan Calvin]

76. I wouldn't call myself prepared, but

I am certainly expectant. I am quite sure of the reason for this funding.

[malaise]

77. She is correct

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Just wait until he executes elected Democrats

[A HERETIC I AM]

88. HEY SECOND AMENDMENT TYPES! Remember that tyranny you were always worrying about?

It's here. This is it.

So many of those 2A types have been telling us for DECADES that they need their guns to fight a tyrannical government.

WELL HERE'S YOUR CHANCE, CLETUS! Show us what you got!

If they don't start sho**ing those ICE assholes like fish in a barrel, we will all know you have been totally full of shit for years.

But they won't, will they?

This country is rushing headlong into Failed State status. It is being consumed by the abject racism of the minority. Huh....where has that ever happened before?

[DallasNE]

89. ICE Doesn't Even Know What Their Mission Is As That Changes Daily

Today it has change nearly 180 degrees after Trump issued and order to stop picking up farm workers. Farm workers make up the bulk of illegal immigrants. The budget is now way out of sync with the Trump order - who couldn't see this coming.

[republianmushroom]

90. It is going to be a real education for the American people.

America land of the free, was, not now. Another myth shot in the ass.

[Robertmiller1220]

93. Counter Operations

We need to counter ICE with State Based Military, Law Enforcement, Medics, etc. Sue for Peace from a Strong Position. Strong Medicine. Federal Military Command must devolve to the Governors and their Generals and Admirals. More Strong Medicine. More Information to Come.

[peacebuzzard]

94. Just came through an international airport US security border check

a couple of days ago.
And there were some new and numerous uniformed officers staring down at passengers retrieving their luggage.
They were wearing uniforms and ballcaps I did not recognize.
I was tired and in a hurry but the extra personnel was noteworthy.

[Martin68]

95. It's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. But this, too, will end. We will overcome.