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U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants
(www.texastribune.org)
Never saw that coming! /s
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Americans heard "liberty or death" and said "death please!"
If only. If I knew an ICE employee I would consider it my personal duty to make their lives living hell.
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"The president gets to declare what is an emergency"
Thanks Supreme Court and Congress. Who could have ever guessed that this system would be abused by an authoritarian. 🤷♂️
... This is unironically what all the rightwing conspiricists have been afraid of for two+ decades now.
This is what they thought Clinton, or Obama or somehow the UN or 'ZOG' would be able to use as the mechanism to instate tyranny.
... And now they are doing it themselves, so utterly deluded that they would short cicruit if you tried to explain this to them.
I grew up in a right wing nutjob household. This is what I was told my whole life, growing up. I was indoctrinated into it, and had to deconvert myself out of it similar how I had to deconvert out of christian extremism.
These people are perfect hypocrites.
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