Americans Do Not Support Mass Deportation - We Must Stand Against ICE, And *For* The People ICE Is Terrorizing

Simon Rosenberg

Morning all. I want to start today with a moment that I think was critical in our finding our inner courage to truly take on ICE. It was a House hearing with Sec. Noem late last year, before the escalation in Minnesota, where Democrats so powerfully summoned their outrage against ICE’s barbaric behavior that Noem fled the hearing. To me the highlight of that hearing were remarks from Rep. Delia Ramirez which you can find above. Let’s start our day with her, her outrage, her fight, her righteous call for justice and accountability……

Reining In ICE - End The Violence, End The Lawlessness, Narrow The Targets - So I’ve come up with a new way of describing our campaign to rein in ICE -

End The Violence

End The Lawlessness

Narrow The Targets

The first two are currently in most people’s language and arguments. The last one - Narrow The Targets - is how I’ve come to describe something we’ve been discussing here the last few days (here, here, here) - the need for ICE to stay focused on its stated mission of removing criminal migrants and leave the rest of us alone. For if ICE is only pursuing criminals then it doesn’t need all the extra money allocated in the big ugly bill; doesn’t need the extra detention centers; doesn’t need to descend on and terrorize entire cities. The only reason all this extra money is needed is if Trump-Vance-Miller-Noem are intending to deport tens of millions of immigrants already here, legal and undocumented, and keep their terror campaign on our streets for decades. We must not let this happen, and the best way to do so is to make a sustained case for the necessity of “narrowing the targets.”

For what is being built now is a paramilitary political police force loyal to Trump and not the Constitution. And once that gets built - with the extra man power, the experience gained through their attacks on our cities, with a new gulag archipelago - the targets will widen to include tens of millions of long-settled and lawful immigrants, journalists, political opponents of the regime, all of us. We know from history where this is all going which is why we must make a stand now before Miller transforms ICE into an American SS.

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/americans-do-not-support-mass-deportation