U.S. Border Enforcement - ICE will get you

[Sheera Khan]

Well, I never thought the leopards would eat my face...

Too bad for you, try thinking before voting next time - if there is a next time that is...

 

[Tigger]

But NEXT time, when I vote for them again, those leopards will surely eat other peoples faces. Couldn't possibly eat my face again.

 

[Soen Eber]

Are Republicans even aware of the leopards eating face meme? I mean, it's from the U.K., and Churchill didn't say it, so ...

 

[Free]

Are Republicans even aware of the leopards eating face meme?

Even if they are, it doesn't represent them.

Fascism doesn't fail. Fascism is failed. If someone gets their face eaten, they deserved it.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It’s Still Fascism When Democrats Do It

The attacks on Zohran Mamdani are MAGA politics

www.everythingishorrible.net

(I think it's free to read)

Also this

Malaparte vs. de Beauvoir; Idi Amin and the Mamdanis' Antifascism

Reading, Watching 07.07.26

www.unpopularfront.news

Evernote link to full article

(Of personal interest since my ex was a Ugandan Asian expelled by Amin)

 

[Sheera Khan]

Famous last words: "We don't want that here"...
Different Bias

 

[Essence Lumin]

ICE Has Gall To Leave Raided Restaurant Negative Review

SAN DIEGO—Following a surprise restaurant raid Friday in which dozens of employees were taken into custody, witnesses reported that on top of everything else, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents responsible for the violent arrests had the gall to leave a negative review. “It takes a...

theonion.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Only Criminals Don’t Want To Be Gassed By The Government

The Tellingly Pathetic Case Against Alejandro Orellana

www.popehat.com

 

[Kokoro Fasching]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

ICE Has Gall To Leave Raided Restaurant Negative Review

SAN DIEGO—Following a surprise restaurant raid Friday in which dozens of employees were taken into custody, witnesses reported that on top of everything else, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents responsible for the violent arrests had the gall to leave a negative review. “It takes a...

theonion.com

It took me a few seconds before I realized that was the Onion.

 

[Khamon]

This is cross posted because I originally put it in the Trump 2 thread but should've put it here. So you can read it twice. Feel free to harangue me mercilessly.

The difference is that Obama was working to ensure permanent border protection. Trump Lord Vought doesn't care so much about the borders. Most Americans rank on the same level as criminal illegal immigrants under The Great Plan. He's building a federal police force that will eventually trump, no pun intended, state and local law enforcement. Why can people not see this clearly?

Trump is deporting way fewer people than Obama did. Why?

The “deporter in chief” still holds the record.

www.vox.com

or if paywall you can read it here: https://archive.ph/RjQLt

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Detained in immigration raids, Maga mom still has faith in Trump's mass deportation plan

Speaking from a detention facility in California, an Iranian immigrant says she believes "the good people will be released".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Khamon]

Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.

A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.

www.theatlantic.com

edit: I pushed the button after not adding any commentary This seems encouraging to me on the surface. The administration wants to build a singular federal police force controlled directly by the executive branch. But the employees may ultimately rebel against such an arrangement. But then they may be replaced with a bunch of untrained and undisciplined redneck hooligans and that could be worse in the long run. Can we even think in terms of a long run any longer?

 

[Free]

One's ultimate effort should be about the changing of minds.

Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social)

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigration-abated.aspx

bsky.app

Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social)

About that record-high share of Americans saying immigration is good for the country: The surge is primarily driven by *Republicans* changing their tune. Rs have become much more positive on immigration than they had been before Trump took office.

bsky.app

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article

The camp has been open, now, for just over a week, and already one prisoner has been hospitalized, reportedly as a result of the camp’s inhumane conditions. According to news reports, many of the men there were not permitted to shower for days. Broken air conditioning left men alternately freezing and sweltering in the heat. Detainees report that they are only being fed one meal a day, and that the food has been infested with maggots. There is no secure line by which the prisoners – who, again, are being detained on civil, not criminal, violations – can speak to their lawyers without being monitored. Toilets don’t flush, and the facility is infested with bugs. It is not clear that the concentration camp, housed in the low-elevation swamps of south Florida, can withstand the rains and winds that are typical of the east coast’s summer hurricane season. It has already flooded.

 

[Beebo Brink]

This description reminds me of the British series Tenko, about a group of British, Dutch and Australian women who are held in a Japanese internment camp on a Japanese-occupied island between Singapore and Australia. The conditions are comparable to that WWII scenario.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Farmer becomes first person to die during Trump's ICE raids

Jaime Alanis, 57, is the first person to die as a result of Donald Trump's anti-immigrant raids.

news.sky.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Wife Slams ICE Arrest of Husband Out Picking Up His Daughter

The man’s pregnant wife told the Daily Beast agents treated him like an “animal” and refused to show him an arrest warrant.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Free]

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison (archive.today)

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up for the first time about her shocking arrest and 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility. She recalls the generous and compassionate women who helped her through this harrowing ordeal.