Trump's Gestapo -- a secret nat'l police force not just for undocumented immigrants but for any immigrants, legal one
Trump’s Gestapo — a secret national police force not just for undocumented immigrants but for any immigrants, legal ones, permanent residents, and soon US Citizens
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-ice-gestapo-abrego-garcia
The ICE Man Cometh
Trump’s Gestapo is here. It operates throughout the country. It can suddenly arrest anyone, with no crime alleged, and deport them for permanent imprisonment overseas. Will anyone stop this?
THE BIG PICTURE AND TRISTAN SNELL
APR 17, 2025
Last year, I did a series called Decoding Project 2025 — and one of the most jarring Trumpian proposals was, from my point of view, the planned degradation of the existing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into an immigration Gestapo to detain undocumented immigrants and deport them without any legal due process.
I was wrong.
It turns out ICE is not a Gestapo for undocumented immigrants.
It is a general Gestapo — a secret national police force not just for undocumented immigrants but for any immigrants, even legal ones with documents, even permanent residents (green card holders), and if Trump has his way, soon, even U.S. citizens.
ICE is arresting and detaining people without alleging that they have committed any crimes at all—holding them without any legal process, without an immigration removal proceeding, without a trial, without an evidentiary hearing, without anything—and then shackling and chaining them into military cargo planes and deporting them for indefinite imprisonment without trial in El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT).
Then the administration lies, falsely claiming that it can do nothing to return anyone who has been sent to CECOT.
More…….lots more
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Stephanie Kennedy
The Constitutional crisis all Americans fear is here. A battle between the executive and judicial branches is underway.
The Trump regime defiantly refused to meet another court-issued deadline in the case of Kilmar Abrego García.
Dismissed was a federal judge’s deadline to disclose steps…
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George Takei
https://bsky.app/profile/georgetakei.bsky.social/post/3lmzxbc6hxk2y
ICE says it’s just doing what it’s told. The president of El Salvador says he’s powerless. Trump officials are acting like they’re not responsible. But the monster’s already been unleashed. And when a modern-day Gestapo like this is allowed to thrive, where will it all end?
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