The Senate has passed a bill making Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the U.S.'s largest interior law enforcement agency with funding for Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda higher than most of the world’s militaries, including Israel’s.
Pending its passage in the House of Representatives, Trump’s bill could mean a massive increase in ICE funding as part of an immigration enforcement agenda worth $150 billion over four years.
This figure is more than the annual military budget of Italy, which at $30.8 billion, is the world’s 16th highest defense spender for this year according to tracker Global Fire Power.
It is also higher than military spending for Israel, ($30 billion), the Netherlands ($27 billion) and Brazil ($26.1 billion).
Is anyone still pretending ICE is about immigration? ICE is Trump’s SS, and they just got funding beyond any dictator’s wildest dreams. Good luck with your totalitarian police state.
Seems like it’s time to for people to learn about sustained direct action campaigns.
Rev Left Radio had a great interview earlier this year with a member of Palestine Action about their extremely successful direct action campaign against Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit. While the media would have you believe that Palestine Action is an ineffective bunch of clowns, they have already forced the closure of two weapons factories in England and forced Barclays Bank to divest from Elbit through sustained sabotage campaigns. Their incredible success is the actual reason the UK government has named them a terrorist organization, not just for spray painting some planes.
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=Palestine+action
For legal reasons, I am not encouraging anyone to break any laws.
Love Rev Left, recommended listening for everyone
So now they are the biggest millitary and paramilitary spender. Cool.
Good, service guarantees citizenship and the way things are going, the Greatestest and Bestest Democraciest Peaciest and Freedomest Country in the Whole Wide Universe will need some
cannon fodderhighly qualified personnel.This is perverse
Even more so when you remember that the original “we need to get rid of all those immigrants” argument stemmed from migrants costing the country too much money.
Trillions for deportation. Not one penny for infrastructure or social services.
The ICE budget is free college for everyone like 3 times over.
Remember when republican bitches about how much we spent on immigration?
We’re probably nearing the point where Americans will start trying to get over the border wall and into Mexico.
Honestly been looking into it. If things go south enough, I’ve thought about driving down that way. Closer than Canada. I’d have to get through Texas, but teaching math in Mexico City sounds nice.
My brother lived in Mexico City about a decade ago. We’re from the US. MC always had a bad rep, but like many things, it was overblown. Worst part of the city is the traffic. Public transport can be a little tight. Gotta get used to whatever lives in the water. Otherwise, I always enjoyed visiting. There was the one time there was an earthquake while I was on the roof of a high-rise, we don’t get those in Jersey, but that’s a fluke.
In Mexico right now. It’s beautiful, the people are friendly, cost of living is easily half that of the States, and the food is spectacular.
What’s rent for a one bedroom apartment? My Spanish isn’t great but it’s tolerable. Any science or math teacher openings in your area lol?
I imagine border security into the country is easier than the other way around.
What’s rent for a one bedroom apartment?
Pretty wide range depending on neighborhood and quality. I’m in Condesa, so it’s in the $600-1200 USD range. You can definitely find cheaper.
I imagine border security into the country is easier than the other way around.
It’s not really an issue in Mexico City.
I’d rather live around active cartels at this point.
Luckily CBP got a nice budget increase so they can prevent anyone from leaving too.
I can totally see this coming.
The developed world has a population growth problem. Population growth has slowed or reversed in many countries, but the global economy is designed around infinite growth, fed by an infinitely growing pool of workers and customers. Then when they retire they can be taken care of by the infinitely growing population of young people.
It takes zero imagination to picture this administration forcing “high value human resources” to remain in the country, including putting them on no fly lists. Unfortunately since they are stupid, the brain drain has already started.
This goes nicely with abortion bans, criminalization of life choices that don’t produce babies, and the disenfranchisement of women.
That was the secondary goal, keep people out and in.
I was gonna say. Things might be different if I was in poverty and in central America, but for the rest of us the US just seems like a real awful place to be.
Gestapo. They’re Nazi Gestapo. Treat them as they deserve.
I’d argue they are more like the SS at this point. Consider: the point of the Gestapo was to police the German population and root out internal threats to the Nazis. The SS, on the other hand, were a military branch that were responsible for eradication of the “undesirable elements”. I feel like the latter is a more fitting mold for ICE.
The SS had many tasks. One of them was to protect the regime against coups from the army or SA.
At the beginning the SA also ran concentration camps, the SS took them over soon.
SS, Gestapo, and regular police were all under Himmler’s command via the Reichssicherheitshauptamt.
Gestapo was formed from preexisting secret political police forces.
Trumpism operates differently than Nazism. However Trump needs a loyal oppression infrastructure to build a more authoritarian system. ICE is on its way to enable that.
Daily reminder to all ICE agents. By signing up for ICE, you have signed yourself up for a lifetime of fear and criminal liability. There are Nazi concentration camp guards that were tried for their crimes in their 90s. There is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. Your names are recorded; your deeds are known. And you will face justice for your crimes. And do not count on a blanket pardon saving you. Crimes against humanity are violations of international law that cannot be pardoned.
Not all guards of concentration camps or SS members were prosecuted. That was also an unusual situation as the Nazi state and the SS ceased to exist and was occupied for decades.
No ICE agent will be prosecuted for conducting arrests or executing warrants against illegal immigrants. Once mass torture, inhumane treatment, extralegal executions and such start, it becomes more risky for them.
We don’t know how bad it will get yet or what comes after. In the best case Trump and republicans lose the next elections. A New Democrat government could simply downsize ICE and only prosecute a handful of bad apples. Remember what happened after Abu Ghraib.
fuck legal systems, we all know the next democrat will pardon them or refuse to prosecute them.
they need to live in fear from decent human beings,
Yeah why would the Democrats do this to us??? 🙄
they already did that.
trump should have been put in jail during the Biden administration.
There’s not going to be a next Democrat.
I hope you’re wrong but…I really don’t think you are and I hate it.
surely this neck gaiter will protect me from consequences
If you replace the PLA with ICE, its enough budget to invade Taiwan.
I’m officially ready to be radicalized.
Same, I’m done
Arm yourselves now, before it’s too late.
*Palantir standing the corner taking notes.*
I’m this country, not wanting to go to a concentration camp makes you a radical
Not wanting to go to a concentration camp is understandable, especially if you have a high paying job.
Not wanting OTHER people you’ve never met to go to concentration camps? Whoaaa there Che, put down that AK-47!
also less organized and disciplined, these are also going to be filled with military rejects too, not good enough for the military types.
Border control has historically hired the least qualified people.
There are cops, who are bad enough in general and then there are those that couldn’t become cops. If you can’t make that cut imagine what you can do now that you’re Gestapo.
There’s no way they need all those people and resources if they’re only going after illegal immigrants. They’re going to start disappearing their other targets too. People of Colour, Democrats, LGBTQ, scientists. Get in line. I hope you’re ready for what we know is coming.
First they came for the immigrants…
They skipped the disabled. They’ve been killing them for centuries.
It’ll be trans people first. Then gays. Eventually blacks. Then democrats.
Seems like right now it’s Iranian Americans.
Well we were the most prosperous country in the world while being racist to the hilt. I’m guessing the GOP thinks that might be the secret sauce.
That means this is their new military.
Pretty clever if you think if it. They don’t try to convince their current one but build one up besides them while starving them of their resources.
And not beholden to anybody but Trump himself. He can do with it as he please.
Pretty similar to what the Nazis did
Building a paramilitary beholden to Party-aligned officials as a stopgap until the Party seizes total control of the actual military is boilerplate fascism.
EDIT: And when they do seize control the military, it usually doesn’t end well for the paramilitary.
Who do you think they’re going to Merc? Is it Jigsaw?
It does seem a lot like Schutzstaffel. They’ll need their very own Stasi too.
