Well, I’m going to write something "new" here because Ben at Meidas Touch wants to insure that as many people as possible help him out in spreading the word to as many people as possible about the Nazi thuggery happening all over this country, such as provided in this compilation of the damning evidence captured by private citizens of ICE’s continuing assaults on simple human decency…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRfHP1yEwNs
...which seems to be getting worse every day, since accountability for their behavior is so completely nonexistent that they seem to confidently confuse this country with Nazi Germany...
...when yesterday Trump insisted (meaning lied) that he is not a "dictator," but implies it is "OK" to be one because MAGA supports dictatorship. Support for this is coming from "unlikely" places, as we learn in this news story by the local television station King5 1 when state officials falsely denied that the Department of Licensing was sharing immigration information with ICE last month in violation of a 2019 law in this supposed "sanctuary state."
Now that the news station has provided the proof that the DOL was sharing immigration status information with ICE, which used it to make immigration arrests, the state has ended ICE's "account" to the DOL database, but critics of this late move question whether other federal agencies which still have access to the database will merely "share" this information with ICE thugs.
King5 is also reporting this new story 2 where DHS arrived at two wildfire locations to "check IDs" and detained two firefighters. Gov. Ferguson now says he is having officials "investigate" this latest evidence of state involvement in ICE detentions (not "shocking" given that Bondi insinuated that she would have him "arrested" for running a "sanctuary" state), and given the dangerous occupation these "illegal" firefighters were involved in, Sen. Pat Murray called this action "fundamentally sick" on the part of the Trump administration.
ICE, we are told, are coming to Seattle after Labor Day. I know I will be a "suspicious" character to them, and I will be taking note of their presence, especially if they take an interest in me; of course being a native-born U.S. citizen of more than 65 years should "protect" me, but they have been "accidentally" detaining citizens because of racial profiling. I don't know a word if Spanish save "pendejo," and if they speak Spanish to me to try to trip me up, I will them tell them so, and that is what I think they are.
And then we have this story 3 where a Massachusetts mother of four U.S. citizen children was detained for 10 days by ICE over a pot possession charge (no longer illegal in the state) decades old that was supposed to be expunged a decade ago. The woman had serious health issues for which her medication had been refused her, and at one point we learn that she had to be taken to a hospital for emergency treatment.
A judge eventually removed the old charge and the woman was ordered released, but she was then simply left outside of an immigration detention center in the pouring rain without a phone to call home. Since ICE officials refused to tell her family or her attorney where she had been taken, she was only able to make contact after making her way to a shopping mall to borrow someone's phone. What is also disturbing about this (besides the inhuman behavior of ICE agents) is who gave ICE this information about a pot charge when it was supposed to be "expunged" in the first place?
Instead of enabling ICE thugs, state and local officials should be arresting and prosecuting them for violating state laws for which Trump has no authority to intervene. We are told that Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is threatening to do exactly that if Trump sends in en masse his thugs whatever uniform (or not) they are wearing for engaging in violence and illegal arrests.
Of course to "justify" all their lawlessness, once a week DHS or ICE boasts that in one of its sweeps (as in a recent one in Connecticut) they have detained the “worst of the worst”—and sometimes not even that many—which given the fact they have a difficult time “explaining” why most of the people they are detaining and deporting have no criminal record and who are usually attacked at their places of employment or immigration courts, seems more like fodder for MAGA types to consume, rather than actual "fact," and the mug shots DHS displays mean nothing more than the imagery that feeds racial stereotyping.
For most of us “worst of the worst” in "literal" terms means mass murder, but when DHS uses the term it seems self-serving and now open to suspicion of its truth; after all, look at how Pam Bondi’s fantastical version of charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia have been reduced to the point where his attorneys have petitioned to have what’s left of them to be dismissed altogether, as he was set free pending adjudication to Maryland.
DHS, meanwhile, ordered that Abrego Garcia report to ICE in Baltimore, where he was detained after saying goodbye to his wife...
...to be deported to Uganda pending court hearings, clearly as "punishment" for refusing to submit to a guilty plea to the crime of which these protesters assert that it is the Trump administration which is more guilty of:
This is only more evidence about why it is a mistake to put the power of the executive branch into the hands of those whose motivations are not only juvenile but evil. We are told that "due process" to those like Stephen Miller is only for "Americans" 3 and not for "all persons" as enumerated in the 14th Amendment--not even those who have lived and worked in this country peacefully for decades.
But such people deserve less "due process" than, say, the "worst of the worst," because you actually have to "prove" they are rather than just saying it. So to speed things along DHS and ICE doesn't let things like "evidence" get in the way these days if they can claim that a tattoo is "proof" enough of being the "worst of the worst"; of course if that were true then Angelina Jolie and Justin Bieber should have their citizenship revoked and be deported immediately. And how about Hegseth, who at least three of this fascist's tattoos have been identified as "dog whistles" used by white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups hidden under the "cloak" of "Christianity"?
But we know that hypocrisy reigns free in the Trump administration, such as when Trump first pardoned and then appointed convicted felon Charles Kushner as ambassador to France, apparently because he agreed to pass on offensive letters to Macron. Now, if sex-trafficking of minors qualifies as “worst of the worst," then one has a right to question why Trump and Bondi don't necessarily thinks so.
But then again, if the perpetrators are Trump's "friends," then they can offer a quid pro quo in order for them to look at the matter in a different "light," likely one that's burned out and leaves concepts like morality and ethics in "darkness." Thus Ghislaine Maxwell is now in a minimum security prison waiting for her pardon for crimes in which she is supposed to be serving a 20-year prison sentence in a maximum security prison.
Of course being "friends" with Trump--as shown on the most recent episode of South Park--can be bought cheap. For Putin, it was just an autographed copy of the two of them signing away the lives of thousands more innocent Ukrainian civilians, including children. During his recent White House visit, South Korean president Lee Jae Myung knew what the "score" was, and proceeded with the nauseating flattery and lies that this man child (which implies psychologically more for the latter than the former) requires.
Real-world issues that Trump helped create through his incompetence and childish impulses are for other world leaders to solve on their own; they can only hope that they are not mentioned on Fox News so that Trump isn't reminded that there is another country he can bully.
Of course for Trump "diplomacy" means nothing more than those “love” letters he got from Kim Jong Un and now that autographed picture to “brag” about. It’s like Neville Chamberlain “bragging” that he’s got Hitler’s signature on a worthless piece of paper before a war where 50 million people were killed, a war without which the Holocaust would not have occurred. You know, a kind of "enhanced" version of what has been happening in Ukraine the past three years.
From all of that we know that what "thrills" Trump is violence, whether it is the verbal (on his Truth Social account) or physical variety, and since he is limited in the violence he can perpetrate externally in a "physical" way, he imposes this need for violence on a country he has the power to perpetrate it on.
Which leads to another excuse to write another post is this article 2 by the Chicago Bar Foundation, which like so many others confirms the fact that there is no “making sense of our nonsensical immigration system.” But in a country where we have a life form from the depths of Hell in human form who is leading this country into the depths he emerged from who can't face the fact that it is he who is wrong about everything…
…only proves that defending abhorrent indecency is only "possible" by pathological lying that is formed and twisted by hate and prejudice that "justifies" the violence that Trump and his thugs are perpetrating all over the country. Hell, I consider it not just stupid but "violent" that with the end of tariff exemptions, foreign DVDS and Blu-rays even from an American company like Amazon from its international locations are targeted as "dangerous" imports. Is this what you ass-licked Trump for, Jeff Bezos?
Such minds want you to believe that they think that everything would just be “fine” if the “illegals” came in "legally," which is not what Miller meant when he proclaimed "America for Americans" like he didn't know how his own family arrived here, at that Nazi campaign event at MSG that should have ended Trump's election chances right then.
What are MAGA people "seeing" when despite what DHS and ICE are telling them, they are not just targeting anyone who they "see" isn't a U.S. citizen, they are beating on brown-skinned people because these people not only don't have "due process" rights, but no rights that an ICE thug (regardless of their own "color") is bound to respect. Maybe they wish they'd do it differently, like smashing those cameras and cell phones first.
Of course that also goes for anyone who "interferes" with them or induces paranoia 4 or merely for asking them if they feel any shame acting like Nazis. What does MAGA think when DHS denies that they are racial profiling Hispanics when they hear ICE thugs on video brag that they are doing exactly that? Do they have a vicarious "thrill" in violence too? Well, yes if of polling of Republican voters is correct.
I can’t wait for those masked thugs to show up on Seattle city streets, given Bondi’s threats of arresting the governor here for allowing this to be a “sanctuary” state; of course there are lots of people with a little bit of that Nazi in them, so that won't bother them too much. But we will see what the people here are really made of—although as I reported from personal observation here 3 they probably need to be more “in their face” than how they demonstrated when confronted by Seattle police. We should remember that the real "patriots" are those who defend democratic principles and the rule of law, not people like the January 6 rioters or ICE Gestapo thugs.
Given the fact that most of those “illegal Mexicans” are here in this country in search of work and living their life free of threats from those U.S.-fed cartel gangsters, the Foundation notes the obvious (but apparently not to everyone):
Most immigrants come to America today for the same reasons as they have since our nation’s founding: in search of a better life and the American dream, to join their families here, or to flee persecution and terror. We truly are a city and nation of immigrants, and from the start of our country to today, immigrants have played integral roles in our economy and in our communities.
So why doesn’t it make “sense” to lawmakers in Congress or red state governors, many who act like mini-me Hitlers? “There are two fundamental problems with our current immigration system that have brought on the dysfunction we see today” according to the report:
First, the current laws that dictate how many people can legally immigrate here are arbitrarily set and bear little or no relation to the realities of our economy or what is happening in the world. For decades now, the system has lacked sufficient legal channels to meet our country’s needs.
We’ve talked about how there once was a system in place, the Bracero program, and the fact that there was no “quota” on immigration from Latin America until the 1965 immigration “reform” law which not only ended the Bracero program but put tight limits on immigration from Latin America—limits that have only become more nonsensical given that this country needs more so-called “low-skill” labor—you know, for farm work—than it does imported “high-skill” labor (admittedly a “relative term” when it refers to “customer service call centers”) to replace laid-off American workers for cost and “cultural” considerations (i.e. "lazy" Americans "only" working 40 hour weeks and expecting to get national holidays off too, that those other "cultures" do not recognize).
If it had not been for racist, bone-headed immigration policies we would not have this “problem” with “illegal” workers that this country needs in order for its economy to stay afloat. The Foundation notes that
Second, even though it is widely understood that the system has long been broken, the penalties for violations of these flawed immigration laws essentially are all or nothing: either deportation or remaining in legal limbo. Some can get a temporary legal status with limited rights, but most do not have any realistic option to obtain legal status under current law.
Of course under the Trump administration, it is all “nothing,” with the Nazis headed by Miller acting as if they are rich children with a cruel streak who have more toys that they know what do with and with no supervision or punishment at all for their bad behavior. To them, immigrants (legal or not) are nothing more than vermin to track down and exterminate, because they have never matured enough psychologically to develop moral or ethical standards above the amoeba--they just "attack" for its own sake, and no doubt because they enjoy it too.
The article goes on to say that the “solution” was always a simple thing to achieve, and that includes not having local police becoming involved in ICE thuggery—as we now see in Washington D.C., where in exchange for avoiding a takeover of the police department, it is hypocritically aiding and abetting lawless ICE actions—since people “without legal status would lose trust in these essential local institutions and our entire community would be less safe as a result.” Hence, it is ICE that is making communities less safe, given that the "worst of the worst" is no longer the "priority," but now the "collateral."
The authors are clearly “centrist” in their approach to immigration in general, but believe that most people in this country—unlike in the Trump administration—want a “fair” resolution to the question of immigration, and not the “nothing” that this administration is pursuing. After all, if the labor of those “Mexicans” wasn’t needed to keep the U.S. economy growing, they wouldn’t be here, would they? The Foundation notes that this country must formulate a common sense immigration policy that
Realistically and fairly addresses the millions of people here without legal status. Earned legalization should be possible for those who otherwise have played by the rules and complied with the appropriate penalties noted immediately above. Creates workable, reality-based legal channels to meet current and future economic needs, carry out our international responsibilities to accept refugees fleeing persecution and terror, and reasonably allow for family reunification.
That doesn't mean what another one of Trump's "executive orders" commands, which is that three-quarters of those allowed refugee status are those white Afrikaners allegedly targeted for "genocide." The truth of course is that it is the Trump administration that invents these false narratives while allowing its Nazi thugs to work overtime to insure that it is this country that is creating conditions of terror and persecution.
Thus
This may sound like a pipe dream with today’s political discourse, but with some modest variations in the particulars, this approach has long attracted broad support from across the political spectrum. While there are clear and loud exceptions among vocal minorities on both fringes, most Americans recognize we are a nation of immigrants and support this balanced approach. The majority of the public is not anti-immigrant, but they do want to see an orderly system based on laws, which is hardly an unreasonable request.
Whatever is implied there, the truth is that the immigration laws of this country are far from “orderly” or sensible, and haven’t been since at least 1965. This article was also written after Trump announced that all “55 million” non-citizens but who are either legal residents or have a visa will be “vetted”—including green card holders and those applying for citizenship. Work visas will also be withheld from foreign truckers (meaning mainly from Mexico), who cause accidents such as this one that killed five because the driver couldn’t read the warning signs in English before he noticed that traffic had slowed ahead because of a closed lane:
Oh wait, that was a white American “patriot” from Las Vegas, who was too busy on his cell phone to notice that traffic had slowed ahead, continuing to plow forward at 70 miles per hour:
