Donald Trump nominated former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott for the new commissioner of the parent agency Customs and Border Protection (CBP), seeking the return of one of the most ardent defenders of the border policies from his first administration. Scott, a career official who was promoted by the...
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Donald Trump and his incoming team have confirmed they’re moving forward with costly and “bloody” mass deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants as their signature policy of the second term. They are also getting the green light from the Republican-controlled Congress, as Sen. Lindsey Graham put it in a...
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Donald Trump’s mass deportation team has been taking shape, and it is alarming, as expected. Trump has announced that he has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his nominee for secretary of Homeland Security, joining noted white nationalist Stephen Miller and former acting ICE director Thomas Homan to...
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15 million, 20 million, 30 million, or one of every six people currently living in the US: these are the numbers the incoming Trump administration has been using to project the sort of scale they hope for from their mass deportation regime. These eye-popping numbers are likely a logistical...
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The incoming Trump administration and their allies in Congress have promised to make unsparing mass deportations their top priority, including a return to devastating workplace raids. Unfortunately, we don’t have to imagine the downstream consequences but look to workplace raids from the last time Trump was in power. The...
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This is not just about deporting the undocumented, U.S. citizens are in the crosshairs too. Analysis by David Leopold, America’s Voice legal advisor, past president, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and Immigration Group Leader, Ulmer & Berne LLP. Donald Trump and his allies appear to understand that mass...
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On the Thursday after the election, Donald Trump did an interview with NBC News where he reiterated that his nativist agenda would be a top priority, saying there is “no price tag” on his violent mass deportation regime. Less a statement about dollars and cents than a ringing signal...
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A number of Democratic governors and local leaders from coast to coast are beginning to take action to resist Donald Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda and protect undocumented families in their communities and states, including by strengthening safer city ordinances, preventing the use of local resources in mass raids...
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Donald Trump has announced that Thomas Homan, a Project 2025 contributor and former acting ICE director under his first administration, will be returning to his second term as a “border czar” to carry out the ”bloody” mass deportation agenda that was the signature promise of his 2024 presidential campaign...
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Election Review Part 3 – The Great Replacement Theory Is Now the GOP’s Main Organizing Principle The wholesale adoption of the great replacement theory this year as the central organizing principle on the American right is essential for understanding this election, its results, and its aftermath: It is the...
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