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Mardie Corcoran's avatar

Sad and frightening. The cruelty of this administration reaches new heights every day.

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Patrick Myers's avatar

When they come to Constitutional carry states like Florida and Texas where you don't need a license to carry a concealed weapon they may be more cautious of abductions and kidnappings. I live in Florida and If I saw this happening I would assume abduction and would act to help the person being abducted.

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Debbie Davis's avatar

I finally figured out MISGA stands for "Make Indentured Servitude Great Again."

I've thought of other acronyms for Trump's administration, including "MAD" for "Make American Dangerous" or "MADAD" for "Make America Dangerous and Deadly" or "MAWA" for "Make America Worse Again." Those apply to nearly all of his administration's actions.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

A very good article and important one! I was just on NextDoor here in CA. The animosity and ignorance towards immigrants is appalling so I decided to give them an education. I told them my parents had been Holocaust victims and that my grandparents had been murdered by the Nazis. Waiting to see what the response will be…

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Steven Dundas's avatar

The undocumented immigrants will go to concentration camps and be rented out to agricultural, construction, and industrial corporations.

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Morey G's avatar

It has been pointed out by others that Miller & Co. might use the 13th amendment allowing criminals to be enslaved, to sell or rent out the concentration camp "detainees" to industries that need them, splitting those profits between the private prisons and the trump crime family.

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Becky O A's avatar

When you are ignorant of history, you fall for these schemes, or you ignore them. Hitler's work camps, worked the prisoners there until they died. died. dead. His opponents and dissidents, religious people. Meanwhile the Jews and other "criminals" and "undesirables" (including special needs children and old and infirm, mentally challenged went too) went directly to the gas chamber. Check out the South after the Civil War, when plantation owners took newly freed Blacks "under their wings" to work for nothing, unable to leave and subject to even more cruelty than under slavery because those plantation workers had not vested $$$$ interest in freed slaves. They worked until..... (it's called sharecropping) An other alternative was arrested "idle" blacks and selling them to industrial complexes and state projects to pay off their fines for looking lazy. Many of them were "disappeared." We have a roadmap from history. Resist.

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Light Warder's avatar

Nice one Shalise. MISGA is coming, no question about it. Tim Snyder wrote about it on 7/4/25. I truly believe the MAGATs are trying to self-deport as many nonwhites as possible by making family life in their version of America as miserable as possible. I mean, who wants to work in a pig slaughter-house anymore when the wife&kids moved back home?

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Swbv's avatar

There's a certain horror and a suspicion of payback for this Stephen Miller driven thuggery occurring within just a few hundred miles of where he was raised in Santa Monica. Was he bullied in school? His Uncle still has all the humanity you could hope for. Not Stephen.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/stephen-miller-hatemonger-biography/

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Marc Panaye's avatar

If trump is so laser focussed on deporting felons..... why doesn't he deport himself?

After all, the fellow has got fraud, rape, stiffing, burning his own books to hide hush money payments to pornstars, settlements for fake university, 6 bankruptcies, 3 failed marriages and cheating on every golf outing he ever had (which is many!) on his RAP sheet.

I'm sure Miller sometimes looks at him while thinking... "must inform ICE about this felon!!"

But then again, the guy is an elected convicted felon, elected by those who said "eggs are really expensive and that brown lady is no good", white and pretending to be "christian".

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Elly Leary's avatar

Actually, this "policy" has more in common with conviction leasing than indentured servitude. Conduct leasing was the backbone of American apartheid, aka Jim Crow

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Erica's avatar

And these Dems voted for Rollins! Baldwin, Bennet, Booker, Cortez Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Hassan, Heinrich, Hickenlooper, Klobuchar, Ossoff, Peters, Rosen, Schiff, Shaheen, Slotkin, Warnock, Welch

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Light Warder's avatar

Guess how much $$ ICE will pay you for a tip on where to find undocumented peeps?

It's on a sliding scale; in a blue state $1000; red state $10.

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Steven Robert Levine's avatar

The History of Wealth Throughout History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cJ1IZsp750

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