Turmoil in the United States

[shaberon]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
What I see is that the polarization is extreme. 60-70% of the comments — on all sides of every debate — express every form of hate, disdain, cheap insult, prejudice, and distorted view. Reasonable, nuanced, fully informed opinions are fairly rare.

My conclusion: there seems to be almost zero hope for any agreement or reconciliation. The American people, fueled by targeted social media, allegiance to their tribes, and often lacking detailed or accurate information (whatever it may be!), just have no chance. It's a little hard to see things getting better.

Effectively none.

Let's not forget that this is nothing new. It has newly-contrived features, that could not have happened before the twenty-first century, but this is an existential clash of worldviews that has no resolve.

The idea that someone would protest ICE because there are Soros funds rolling around, is dust.

These are not foreign agitations, unlike what we did to Iran, to which no one has responded with the actual issues there, so I'll leave it alone.

I, personally, have had to resist decades of the current regime supporters, such as the ones who punched Congress. We have legions of the chauvinistic, misogynist, chest-thumping supremacists that do not think. They beat and berate. Neocons are simply this in office. Unless anyone has been surrounded by these people so you know exactly what they are, you have no clue.


Again, to simplify, the experiment that was this country was sprung from limiting power, and therefor preventing abuses of power.

Every generation it died a little bit, until the current time where we have an Administration that is purely abuses of power.

The Gestapo syndrome has forced it to a point I have never seen. Since this will lead to a deep un-raveling, it may take time, but we might be able to repent from any number of other wrongs that helped bring it to this level. In other words, there would have to be a third party that makes some things off limits, such as Zionism, and to address serious matters like have been posted on the forum over the years, and generally not acted upon. Or a new Constitution, or different arrangement of States.

Just look at the name-calling that goes on. The President, and those of that alignment, routinely dish out attempted slurs against their adversaries or people like the ICE victims. Same thing happens to me, I'm an "oikophobe" or whatever tag seems most appropriate today. You have a mental problem, or are a foreign agent, or something is just wrong with you. They say this about people they don't know. So it's just noise.

I mainly post things like the Congressional assaults, where the perpetrator makes the mentality clear, and I'm testifying this is routine.

The actual HR 7148 is a highly corrupt, last-minute effort to not default.

Until the people in Congress are replaced, then you have laissez-faire for something that should not be happening, like the DHS, and many other examples worthy of rebuke in that delirious document.

I don't know why this doesn't come to the foreground in all the ruckus. It's the main thing given to you as to what you do in order to adjust a body of law. You don't even need to know what to do. There is a pre-configured set of things to stop doing. I don't know how much can be achieved by marches, but if officials were faced with the likely possibility of being thrown out of a job, then, they might work to keep it, rather than walking over you.

[Ravenlocke]

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall. Come ON.

https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status...42134166221244

[Ravenlocke]

Ed Krassenstein

BREAKING: Liam is going to be free!!

A federal judge has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

A huge win for America
A huge loss for Trump and Stephen Miller!

https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/2017675904550350937

[shaberon]

Here's a perfect example of what I mean.

The President just called everybody names:

Lunatics, Insurrectionists, Agitators, and Thugs

This is after a few speeches and also at Davos where he was certain they are "paid".

This claim is baseless mixed with amplified AI on old allegations in social media:

We asked the White House for Trump's evidence about "paid" protesters and received no response.

That's how the Party works. It's mindless. It's a bunch of made-up hooey to justify people like Kristi Noem and others, while inventing "domestic terrorists" that has no basis in reality.

You'll never be able to talk with or communicate with anybody like this. Their head is too deep in their imagination to know anything other than the script. It's so out-of-touch, I don't know how you expect to be taken seriously. Apparently, they think talking like this is somehow going to curry favor.

The number of protests raised from about eighty to around three hundred.

I feel a punch is pulled in that the marches seem to focus solely the ICE organization, rather than rolling it over to the Administration per se. If it is an abuse of power, followed by lies and insults, how do you react to that? Regime change?

[John Hilton]

I have instructed Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, that under no circumstances are we going to participate in various poorly run Democrat Cities with regard to their Protests and/or Riots unless, and until, they ask us for help. We will, however, guard, and very powerfully so, any and all Federal Buildings that are being attacked by these highly paid Lunatics, Agitators, and Insurrectionists. Please be aware that I have instructed ICE and/or Border Patrol to be very forceful in this protection of Federal Government Property. There will be no spitting in the faces of our Officers, there will be no punching or kicking the headlights of our cars, and there will be no rock or brick throwing at our vehicles, or at our Patriot Warriors. If there is, those people will suffer an equal, or more, consequence. In the meantime, by copy of this Statement, I am informing Local Governments, as I did in Los Angeles when they were rioting at the end of the Biden Term, that you must protect your own State and Local Property. In addition, it is your obligation to also protect our Federal Property, Buildings, Parks, and everything else. We are there to protect Federal Property, only as a back up, in that it is Local and State Responsibility to do so. Last night in Eugene, Oregon, these criminals broke into a Federal Building, and did great damage, also scaring and harassing the hardworking employees. Local Police did nothing in order to stop it. We will not let that happen anymore! If Local Governments are unable to handle the Insurrectionists, Agitators, and Anarchists, we will immediately go to the location where such help is requested, and take care of the situation very easily and methodically, just as we did the Los Angeles Riots one year ago, where the Police Chief said that, “We couldn’t have done it without the help of the Federal Government.” Therefore, to all complaining Local Governments, Governors, and Mayors, let us know when you are ready, and we will be there — But, before we do so, you must use the word, “PLEASE.” Remember that I stated, in the strongest of language, to BEWARE — ICE, Border Patrol or, if necessary, our Military, will be extremely powerful and tough in the protection of our Federal Property. We will not allow our Courthouses, Federal Buildings, or anything else under our protection, to be damaged in any way, shape, or form. I was elected on a Policy of Border Control (which has now been perfected!), National Security, and LAW AND ORDER — That’s what America wants, and that’s what America is getting! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
 
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...91701359412321

[John Hilton]

Trump is using laws passed and signed into law by Democrats

“The Trump administration has begun suing individual illegal migrants for ignoring removal orders and refusing to self-deport back to their home countries, a report says.

The administration has filed suit against an illegal migrant living in Virginia, and is seeking $941,114 plus interest, alleging that Marta Alicia Ramirez Veliz has remained in the country despite being told her request for admittance was rejected by a Justice Department appeals panel in 2022, Politico reported.

The filing notes that Veliz has refused to pay a $998 per-day fine for the 943 days since she was told to return to her home country, and reveals that Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent her an official notice of her total fine in April.

The lawsuit describes Veliz as “an individual and noncitizen residing in Chesterfield County, Virginia,” and does not identify her nationality.

The Department of Justice has filed similar lawsuits against recalcitrant migrants in other districts across the country, as well.

Politico added that a man in Florida has been hit with a $717,000 bill for failing to pay fines after being ordered to leave the country as directed, and migrants in Texas and California have also been the subjects of similar lawsuits.

Congress passed a law, signed in 1996 by Bill Clinton, to allow the federal government to impose civil penalties and fine illegal aliens for failing to self-deport after being told their applications to immigrate were formally declined, but the Trump administration is the first to initiate legal proceedings against migrants who have not paid their fines and yet still remain in the country despite being told to leave.

Trump first began utilizing the rules in his first term, but Biden immediately ended the practice when he took office in 2020. Trump has revived it, though, since taking office for his second term.

Federal officials have now sent out some 10,000 notices of the fines through June of last year.

“The law doesn’t enforce itself; there must be consequences for breaking it,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in June. “President Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem are standing up for law and order and making our government more effective and efficient at enforcing the American people’s immigration laws.”

DHS added that migrants using the Customs and Border Protection’s CBP Home app to self-deport will have any fines levied against them waived.”

https://www.breitbart.com/immigratio...self-deported/

[sdv]

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Trump is using laws passed and signed into law by Democrats

“The Trump administration has begun suing individual illegal migrants for ignoring removal orders and refusing to self-deport back to their home countries, a report says.

The administration has filed suit against an illegal migrant living in Virginia, and is seeking $941,114 plus interest, alleging that Marta Alicia Ramirez Veliz has remained in the country despite being told her request for admittance was rejected by a Justice Department appeals panel in 2022, Politico reported.

The filing notes that Veliz has refused to pay a $998 per-day fine for the 943 days since she was told to return to her home country, and reveals that Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent her an official notice of her total fine in April.

The lawsuit describes Veliz as “an individual and noncitizen residing in Chesterfield County, Virginia,” and does not identify her nationality.

The Department of Justice has filed similar lawsuits against recalcitrant migrants in other districts across the country, as well.

Politico added that a man in Florida has been hit with a $717,000 bill for failing to pay fines after being ordered to leave the country as directed, and migrants in Texas and California have also been the subjects of similar lawsuits.

Congress passed a law, signed in 1996 by Bill Clinton, to allow the federal government to impose civil penalties and fine illegal aliens for failing to self-deport after being told their applications to immigrate were formally declined, but the Trump administration is the first to initiate legal proceedings against migrants who have not paid their fines and yet still remain in the country despite being told to leave.

Trump first began utilizing the rules in his first term, but Biden immediately ended the practice when he took office in 2020. Trump has revived it, though, since taking office for his second term.

Federal officials have now sent out some 10,000 notices of the fines through June of last year.

“The law doesn’t enforce itself; there must be consequences for breaking it,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in June. “President Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem are standing up for law and order and making our government more effective and efficient at enforcing the American people’s immigration laws.”

DHS added that migrants using the Customs and Border Protection’s CBP Home app to self-deport will have any fines levied against them waived.”

https://www.breitbart.com/immigratio...self-deported/

Immigration Nation. 2020. 6-part documentary.
It mostly covers Trump's first term as president, and it covers a lot, by looking at different issues and following specific individuals (both sides of the issue). It includes the astonishing number of people who die in the desert in Arizona (documented) and Texas (not documented). Trump is simply continuing what he started, but with far more aggression. Some things that struck me:

Low level of intelligence and sadism of ICE agents. In the last episode, there are horrific scenes of ICE agents going into the desert and laughing and mocking as they destroyed the water and energy bars that a charity organizations leave under a tree where along the route people are likely to take. Yet, there are a few who felt conflicted and tried to treat people with kindness and respect. Especially in Texas and Arizona, the border patrol etc. are just more decent and likely to treat people with kindness and respect, which does not mean they do not arrest them or undertake undercover and aerial operations, but they just seem to be nicer people then the ICE goons operating in more northern states.
There are some immigrants whose story they followed that I just found annoying (why the hell is this America's problem?).
If you can watch it with an open mind, I think it is a fascinating story well told.
At the end, my overall impression is that a solution can be found between the extremes of bullying or the open door policy (the switch every four years as presidents change is part of the problem as it creates an environment where desperate economic illegals take the chance...). For example, if Americans do not want to do 'menial' work, until robots take over for the future, why not run a limited time work programme visa matching people looking for work and businesses looking for work? People are paying cartels huge amounts of money to die in the desert, so why not pay a placement agency, who will manage papers, accommodation, medical insurance ...?* I realize that the immigration problem has gone on for so long, that all the problems will not simply go away, but surely things cannot continue as is? (Numbers show that Trump's policies and practices are not a deterrent, and the numbers of illegal immigrants has increased steeply, regardless of who is in office and what the policies are.)

* My niece works for an agency based in a country in Europe who, for a fee, arranges all the legal side, arranges accommodation and work placement, health insurance (my niece works on the 24-hour help desk), and sorts out all day-to-day problems, etc. for young people (limited time visa) who want to spend 6 months to a year living in America, legally, and then they go home.

[Ravenlocke]

RT

The Nation nominates MINNEAPOLIS for the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

The editors argue that ‘these unprecedented times’ make the city eligible for its ‘nonviolent resistance’ against Trump’s ‘armed and masked’ ICE and CBP agents

Could Minneapolis get the Nobel before Trump?

https://x.com/RT_com/status/2018390788326019076?s=20


Chris Damian

So proud of this city. And I can confidently say that, if we don’t win, we won’t threaten our allies. So that’s something.
https://thenation.com/article/activi...e-prize/tnamp/

https://x.com/CDamianWrites/status/2017236631917396364

[Ravenlocke]

Eric Feigl-Ding

⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of detention camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for eligible for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus.

https://x.com/DrEricDing/status/2018199187527975328

Annie
@AnnieForTruth
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Pay attention folks. This is all happening under the radar. All of these new mega detention camps being built around our country are being paid for by taxpayer dollars, and will be nothing more than the concentration camps built in Germany. 😡
READ: https://bloomberg.com/news/features/...ention-centers

https://x.com/AnnieForTruth/status/2018342187688436067

[Ravenlocke]

dana reposted

Marc E. Elias

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy

https://x.com/marceelias/status/2018406813239066881

https://www.democracydocket.com/news...ze-the-voting/

Trump: ‘We should take over the voting’
February 2, 2026

President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy.

In a radio interview on The Dan Bongino Show, Trump framed voting itself as corrupt, claimed elections were stolen from him and argued that Republicans should take over how ballots are cast and counted.

“These people were brought to our country to vote and they vote illegally. Amazing that the Republicans aren’t tougher on it,” Trump said, falsely. “The Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”

Trump, as usual, offered no evidence for any of his claims.

The idea that undocumented immigrants are being brought into the United States to vote is a far-right conspiracy theory that has been repeatedly disproven. Furthermore, noncitizen voting in federal elections is illegal and exceptionally rare, according to investigations by election officials and court findings across the country.

Still, Trump went on to reassert his long-standing false claim that he won the 2020 election, attacking states by name.

“We have states that I won that show I didn’t win,” he said. “Now, you’re going to see something in Georgia where they were able to get, with a court order, the ballots. You’re going to see some interesting things come out, but you know, like the 2020 election, I won that election by so much, everybody knows it.”

Trump’s comments come on the heels of an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office in Georgia last week, where federal agents executed a court-authorized search warrant and seized physical ballots, tabulator tapes, electronic images and voter rolls from the 2020 presidential election. The extraordinary action has drawn sharp criticism from local officials and voting rights advocates who say the materials were secure and that the raid feeds unfounded election conspiracy theories.

Later in the interview, Trump turned to the case of Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk convicted under state law for her role in an election security breach after the 2020 election.

Peters allowed unauthorized access to voting equipment and was found guilty of multiple state crimes related to that conduct.

“They put a woman in jail, Colorado, put a woman in jail, a wonderful woman, 72 years old [sic.], had cancer because she was a voting inspector. She was in charge of a voting area and she saw boxes of votes come in,” Trump said. “She went over to check it and they put her in jail for voter manipulation and she’s still in jail and they better let her out fast. They’re suffering a big price, Colorado.”

Peters was not jailed for “challenging” ballot dumping but for actions that prosecutors and a jury found compromised election security. Because she was convicted of state crimes, Trump has no authority to free her, despite repeated attempts.

In recent weeks, Trump has also suggested that the United States should not even hold the 2026 midterm elections, remarks the White House later dismissed as joking.

[Ravenlocke]

Miles Taylor

BREAKING: Trump team to start “daily” meetings to focus on prosecuting his political adversaries, according to CNN

Looks like Susie Wiles’ efforts to “limit” Trump’s focus on retribution has failed spectacularly.

https://x.com/MilesTaylorUSA/status/2018358489274286418

[norman]

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/2018048177073431022

⚠️Biolab Alert⚠️

The FBI just conducted a 16+ hour raid on a residential home in Las Vegas, that had a “biolab” inside, and one person is in custody.

Specialized FBI hazmat units found refrigerators with vials of biological material.

Local police claim this is an isolated incident and the public are not at risk.

As of now we have no idea what kind of biological materials were found or whose residence it was, but the FBI sure seemed to think whatever they found was potentially dangerous.

I’ll be interested to learn about this mysterious individual that none of the neighbors had ever met, that had a secret biolab in his house with dangerous biological materials, that were of interest to the FBI.

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

🇺🇸 "We're gonna have ICE surround the polls come November." - Steve Bannon

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2019062237248258260

[Ravenlocke]

The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts

Trump working hard to make sure no Republican wins in November

https://x.com/solari_the/status/2019035393560396112

[Ravenlocke]

The Tennessee Holler

Fascism is here 🇺🇸

https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/2019052102593429993

[sdv]

Minnesota ... this is authentic America. Not something you will see shown in its entirety in MSM. It really is a stunning parade put on by Native Americans.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tjEJJBequ8w

[shaberon]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
Fascism is here 🇺🇸

Too true.

It takes a lot of rollbacks, but the current mascot has got the process started.

That is by being a textbook case of what can be allowed in power -- "not this".

Polls are showing the unusual, that is, a chunk of the "hardcore support base" has already called it:

President Donald Trump appears to have lost a significant amount of support from a critical sector of his own party since last year. It’s a bad sign for his maximalist governing strategy — and a hopeful bit of news for those organizing a coalition against his autocratic agenda.

According to the Pew Research Center, which surveyed more than 8,000 U.S. adults between Jan. 20 and Jan. 26, Trump’s approval rating has dropped from 40% in the fall to 37% today, and 50% say that the Trump administration’s actions have been worse than they expected, versus 21% who say they’re better than expected. But here’s where it gets strikingly bad for the president: “Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans, down from 35% when he returned to office last year. That change has come entirely among Republicans,” Pew reported.

That response — whether you support all or most of the president’s plans — is a decent proxy for the president’s core base, the swath of the public that’s likely to sign off on anything he does. Considering that Trump is showing fascistic ambition with the way he’s transforming Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, into a rogue paramilitary force, seeking to annex foreign territories and suppressing free speech, that’s an uncomfortably large swath of the population for a country that prides itself on being the oldest democracy in the world.

But combined with the roughly 10-percentage-point decline in his overall approval ratings since getting elected, it’s clear that Trump has markedly less political capital than during the pro-Trump “vibe shift” that took place when Trump narrowly won the popular vote, and an Electoral College landslide, in the 2024 election.

Part of what’s driving it appears to be Trump’s failure to address the affordability crisis. In November, a Politico poll, conducted by Public First, found that a majority of Trump voters believed he was partially or entirely responsible for an economy that many of them believe suffers from an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis. A Reuters-Ipsos survey conducted Jan. 12-13 found Trump’s economic approval rating at 34%, and only 30% approval of his handling of the cost of living.

Another likely factor is the salience of Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda, which has resulted in the killing of two U.S. citizens in brutal shootings. Trump’s approval on immigration has plummeted across many surveys over the past year, and “abolish ICE” has skyrocketed in popularity. Kristen Soltis Anderson, a Republican pollster, wrote in The New York Times on Thursday that her polling showed that Trump’s immigration rating had flipped from 55% approval to 55% disapproval in the past year.

“On one side of the ledger, there is a decreasing sense that roundups and deportations by federal agents are focused on true security threats,” Anderson wrote. “On the other, there is rising anxiety that the presence of an armed federal force in cities is actively making daily life less safe for people who live there.”

Notably, the economy and immigration were widely considered to be Trump’s winning issues in the 2024 election — the key reasons he prevailed over former Vice President Kamala Harris. Now that he’s lost his footing on those issues, his support within his party is ebbing back toward his most die-hard supporters, the ones who Trump famously boasted would support him even if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue. Given the way the Trump administration has tried to defend ICE acting as a secret police force with their approval, he’s probably right. But he doesn’t have anywhere close to the backing of the whole party on everything he wants to do.

Trump’s de-escalation in Minnesota shows he knows this, and that he’s wary of burning too much political capital on any specific controversial operation. But he also probably overestimates his ability to recover the kind of support he briefly held around his election.

The president’s growing unpopularity is a major opportunity for the pro-democracy coalition on the left to expand and contain Trump’s power. That could come in the form of persuading disenchanted Republicans to flip toward Democrats during the midterms, or building broader backing for protest movements against Trump’s assaults on democratic features of the country — many of which are surely yet to come.

That's scary and compelling enough, that about 1/4 of Americans have pretty much pledged their souls to this platform.

Therefor, if the Party is drawn down to less than a 1/3 minority in Congress, it will be contained, and, accurately representational of the hardcore tranche.

Therefor, it is a Fascistic art to make what is truly a narrow view, into an umbrella over everybody.

It is all about what it takes to contain the policies, and political suicide makes it really easy to do that. This can perhaps be repaired by the normal process, rather than further episodes of turmoil, although it is impossible for us to say we will be rid of these during the Administration.

[Ravenlocke]

BreakThrough News

Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy whose detention by ICE agents provoked nationwide outrage, now faces deportation to Ecuador, the country of his birth.

Liam and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, are legal asylum seekers from Ecuador. ICE officers detained them at their home in Minneapolis, MN on Jan. 20, before transferring the father and son to a detention center in Dilley, TX.

Photos of Liam wearing a blue bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack as ICE agents took him into custody quickly went viral.

After nearly two weeks in detention, a judge ordered Liam and Adrian’s release on Jan. 31. They returned home to Minnesota the same day.

Members of the family's legal team and Minneapolis City Council member Jason Sanchez have characterized the Trump administration's motion as "retaliatory."

https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/2019903645173620846

[Ravenlocke]

P a u l ◉

ICYMI — this actually happened:

A 22-year-old mother, Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar, went to a routine fingerprinting appointment for an approved work permit process.

ICE handcuffed her.
ICE deported her.
ICE sent her to Honduras without her 8-month-old baby.

Key facts people keep lying about:

• She was not a criminal.
• She had active deferred action and was in an approved Special Immigrant Juvenile visa process.
• The case was not dismissed on the facts. DHS leaned on a missed 2022 court date from when she was a minor.
• Agents asked about breastfeeding, then restrained her anyway.
• She was tricked into signing a document she was told meant she could take her baby with her. She was deported alone.

Her infant stayed in the U.S.
She did not.

This is not a one-off. It fits a documented 2025 pattern of ICE detaining and separating pregnant and nursing mothers, often in violation of its own policies. Federal judges have already ruled the harm from these separations is “self-evident.”

Bottom line:
A young mother followed the rules, showed up as instructed, and was punished by being forcibly separated from her child.

Anyone calling this “law and order” is lying to you.

Sources

[1] CBS Minnesota — Young mother deported without her infant from Minnesota to Honduras (Feb. 2026)
https://cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/y...a-to-honduras/

[2] CBS Minnesota — Nursing mother in ICE custody in Minnesota to be released after judge rules separation causes irreparable harm (2025)
https://cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/n...n-judge-rules/

[3] CBS-affiliated video interview — Attorney Kelly Clark confirms document misrepresentation and infant separation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zobigQmOZ-g

[4] DHS statement via CBS Minnesota — DHS relies on prior removal order despite active deferred action
https://cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/y...a-to-honduras/

https://x.com/SkylineReport/status/2020201898289090654

[Ravenlocke]

P a u l ◉


BREAKING NEWS | INTERNAL WIRES LEAK

Washington, D.C.

The walls went up quietly. No ribbon, no vote, no debate. Just a contract.

Federal documents reviewed overnight confirm the Pentagon has been using a Navy overseas logistics contract to finance a permanent, nationwide ICE detention network inside the United States, effectively laundering domestic incarceration through military supply chains.

The contract, known as WEXMAC, was sold to Congress as a temporary overseas contingency tool. It has since been expanded from $10 billion to $55 billion, and retooled to support long-term detention infrastructure on U.S. soil. Not a surge. A system.

Under WEXMAC, DHS can now issue rapid task orders that bypass normal procurement, oversight, and public notice. Translation: a detention facility can appear almost overnight, anywhere ICE decides to plant one, with no meaningful local or congressional check.

These sites are not short-term holding centers.

They are plug-and-play incarceration complexes.

The contract explicitly covers:

* Tent cities housing up to 10,000 people

* Surveillance grids and defensive perimeter barriers
* Medical waste disposal and death-handling logistics
* Contractor-run operations staffed by firms with overseas counterinsurgency experience
The same companies that built camps in Iraq and Afghanistan are now being repurposed domestically, pointed inward, aimed at migrant communities.

Congressional budget fights? Theater.

Government shutdowns? Irrelevant.
The money is already authorized, pre-funded, and locked in through 2029, routed through the Pentagon to keep the system solvent even when DHS funding is frozen. Oversight dies quietly when the lights go out.

Meanwhile, Senate Democrats are offering cosmetic reforms: body cameras, agent ID rules, paperwork tweaks. Nice gestures, if the problem were individual misconduct.

It isn’t.

The machinery is already built. Paid for. Modular. Mobile. Permanent.

And under Donald Trump, the United States is cementing a militarized, shutdown-proof detention empire, designed to be operational before the public understands it exists, and entrenched enough that dismantling it later becomes “impractical.”

This is not a warning about the future.

This is infrastructure.

Source: Migrant Insider reporting on Pentagon WEXMAC expansion https://migrantinsider.com/p/how-the...ietly-building


https://x.com/SkylineReport/status/2020258597725212985