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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Nov 1, 2024
Election Preview Part 2 – Elon Musk / Stephen Miller, Anti-Trans Ads, and Public Polling Reporting from the Wall Street Journal from early October revealed that the immigrant billionaire Elon Musk and the leading hatemonger Stephen Miller had been working closely together much earlier than was previously known. Their...
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Oct 31, 2024
Election Preview Part 1 – Ad Spending, the Battle for Congress, and Ballot Measures Donald Trump has made the defense of his campaign’s strategy to go all in on aggressive and ugly nativism a part of his stump speech in the closing month of the campaign. “It’s bigger than...
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Tucked into the immigration priorities of the Heritage Foundation’s radical Project 2025 plan is a provision that, despite its two-sentence brevity, would have devastating consequences by allowing Stephen Miller’s red state deportation army to invade the most personal and sacred of spaces to carry out mass family separation. Under...
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