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Y'all constantly go on about that fucking dumb ass 2nd amendment, here's a threat to your free state.
Apply, interview, whole nine. Take the job, get all the way through the training, then quit or sabotage.
ice “troops”?…
This doesn’t sound good.
This is all perfectly normal immigration and customs enforcement. We will call them the "Nice Troops".
Yeah, great idea. Fire federal employees from positions that benefit the public, while hiring new ones to make some people's lives worse.
the wrong ice is melting and the wrong ice is expanding
brownshirts
I foresee an epidemic of heat-related injuries along the southern border this summer...
The only way to rapidly expand a workforce is to relax standards. So they're about to hire 20K loosers who couldn't make it as a cop.
And I don't even want to speculate about the calabre of person who would be attracted to that line of work.
The term "other individuals" term in there tells you everything you need to know. Right wing militias will be lining up.
With the one dumb enough to show his full face getting doxxed as being a white supremacist leader, I’m sure I know who they’re going to find to do the job.
and where and how will they be trained? think about this when you encounter someone acting in alignment with ICE. you can't train that many people in that short of time and expect them to behave right
I think I read somewhere that they use Albuquerque as a training area
The current ones don't even behave right
exactly. this new wave of ICE will be dumber, more violent, and more fervently loyal to 47
So we're just admitting they're troops now?
Holy shit this is bad. There's already tons of reports of the already expanded ICE field personnel calling detainees "Mexican bitches" and not following well-established law and law enforcement laws and procedures. At least with local law enforcement, you still get some people joining because they're true believer types that want to really protect and serve. Not everyone, sure, there's plenty of asshats in local enforcement, but there's always a few boy scout types that put on the uniform thinking of helping grandma cross the street and stopping actual bad guys instead of shooting minorities. Nobody who wants to do good in the world is going to be joining ICE right now. It's basically MAGA welfare; get paid to be a gun carrying shitheel whose only qualification is being able to spot brown people. He's effectively making a gestapo here.
The Gestapo were evil but not stupid. The closest equivalent to ICE in Nazi Germany would have been the SA.
That's a good point. The gestapo didn't have large numbers either did they?
People in America don't really know the difference, but we do learn about the Storm Troopers/Brownshirts, and the SS. The Gestapo was kind of lumped in with the military and paramilitaries.
Edit: Thinking about it. We're at the stage where feds are the SS. The Gestapo was pretty much absorbed into the SS.
They will be suspending habeas corpus in 60 days then.
That’s 20k new hires with families and home addresses that can be doxxed. I am NOT saying violence is the answer, but these 20k people should absolutely live in worry for their families’ safety because of their participation in this gestapo.
Anonymous, where are you?
Edit: here is a shot from an ICE raid in California, with a very clear shot of an "agent."
Considering some of them are on camera and I can do reverse image search I should start on this project
We’ve just got to start pulling their face masks down in confrontations like yesterday’s. Once we have full face on camera we have them.
The Trump doctrine: throw shit at the wall until something sticks and then lean into it full force
Remember how during the election campaign he had sign-up forms for the maga loyalists who attended his rallies and were interested in working for his government?
This is the next step in that plan. The first step was having Musk and his DOGE lackeys gut the federal government of anyone who was employed in areas they didn't like, it those who might be critical of them.
Now they are moving to step 2: they are going to use subs of the freed-up wages from those lost positions to flood the federal government with their loyalist grunts. And ICE is the perfect place for most of them. These people will get to strut around in their armed forces paraphernalia, persecuting immigrants and people with darker skin than them.
I'm surprised I haven't seen any mention of those rally sign-up forms anywhere recently. But this is all part of a wider plan.
This is the first I've heard of sign-up forms. Got a link for that?
Still, though, there are all those Jan 6'ers who already committed violence for this man once, and they were rewarded for it. I think it's certainly they will sign up to do violence for him again.
Here's a link from a December 2024 article. It mentions how the people behind Project 2025 had an online questionnaire. I remember reading somewhere that I'm addition to being an promoted on maga web sites, the questionnaire was also heavily promoted at Trump's rallies. I can't find a link on that now, but it makes perfect sense that's one of the places where they'd be advertising it and gathering names. It would be a very effective way of reaching those people.
Pertinent parts of this article, which again was published before he was sworn in, include:
Among Donald Trump’s many disconcerting campaign promises is a pledge to fire tens of thousands of federal employees and replace them with loyalists.
Project 2025’s online questionnaire for landing job in the next Trump administration asks about the influences on applicants’ “political philosophy.” According to one alumnus of the first Trump administration, the idea is to “see that you’re listening to Tucker, and not pointing to the Reagan revolution or any George W. Bush stuff.”
The first step was actually pardoning those J6 criminals. He's going to try and get them deputized to be his lil'Hitler SS, you watch.
nah, he didn’t like how they all looked like trailer trash… also the Secret Service already has the SS initials….
my money is on the white South African refugees he’s bringing over… blonde and blue eyed and already tons of fascist experience….
All of Trump's beliefs are malleable and for sale. Hell, he used to call Elon Musk a bootlicker. All it took to gain his unending respect was a sack with a dollar sign on it.
It almost makes me miss the first term when he had no plan
He still has no plan. This is somebody else's plan, and they just whisper it into Grandpa's ear and let the dementia do the rest.
Put him in the desk and put one of those folders with the seal to make it look official enough for Trump to sign. Say" dems bad, senile, dumb"( and whatever else is being whispered about trump) and trump signing this fixes it. "A decisive decision from big dick trump and his large powerful hands"
There has to be a special breed of fucked up to become an ICE agent.
It's the same guys that wanted to join the Marines you knew in highschool. They just wanted to be able to kill someone imo.
Can it be 2029 yet?
O my sweet summer child... dictatorships don't have expiration dates. This will not end with an election. It will end with a revolution.
Or an invasion.
or like maybe all the bad guys will have heart attacks and strokes 🥺
🫤
Hey Republicans, you better stand up against this shit if you're against it. This nazi shit is on your conscience.
Over the last 4 years, the United States has endured a full-scale invasion of aliens entering and remaining in the country illegally, causing a relentless onslaught of crime, vagrancy, violence, and death in countless American communities. This lawless invasion has also limited the capacity of American schools and hospitals to provide for American citizens and has diverted billions of dollars in Federal, State, and local social services from Americans in need.
causing a relentless onslaught of crime, vagrancy, violence, and death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
The population adjusted crime rate has basically never been lower than it has been for the past decade, in the history of the USA
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG-119-JU01-20250122-SD004.pdf
Immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants, have a lower crime rate than US born citizens.
They don't have a conscience, lmao. Just blind sheep, eating up state propaganda.
Gotta still keep calling it out.
Damn straight
“Warning Will Robinson! Danger!”
