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Trump orders ICE vengeance on ‘No Kings’ protest cities

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Trump Orders ICE Vengeance on ‘No Kings’ Protest Cities

Donald Trump ordered ICE officers to prioritize deportations in Democrat-run cities in a wild Truth Social rant Sunday night.

Trump issued the unprecedented, politically motivated orders just hours after millions of protesters gathered in major American cities, calling for Trump’s megalomania to be curbed.

Trump told ICE staff to “do all in their power” to detain and deport undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.

Protests in these cities—and many more Democrat-controlled districts—attracted millions of citizens on Saturday, dwarfing the crowd that attended Trump’s birthday parade in Washington, D.C.

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Sure looks illegal to me. I keep hoping one of his crimes will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, but damned if this isn't one tough camel.
The post in question:
- If he knows there are millions and millions of illegal aliens, why is he rounding up the legal ones?
  
  Ding! Ding! Ding!
  This is why I am having a hard time feeling bad for Trump supporters who just found out that Trump wants them out too despite them being legal residents. There were never enough undocumented immigrants to meet the deportation numbers he wants. He was always planning on cancelling work and student visas and anything else to kick brown people out of the country.
  
  “millions and millions” is total bs
  technically they’re probably not. It looks like they have a bunch of new unqualified people and set impossible quotas.
  While I would never have sympathy for any officers knowingly complying with illegal orders, it also fits with the current administration that management is by bullying, threats, impossible demands, and no concern for correctness until a scapegoat is needed
- That’s got Stephen Miller’s fingerprints all over it.
  
  Any semi-coherent post from Donnie is written by someone other than him. If he posted it he would have gotten distracted halfway through.
  
  Exactly. That's way too rich of a vocabulary for Trump
  
  I had the same thought and am glad to see you're already here with 44 upvotes. Trump is just here for the attention, cruelty and grift, but he's not a thinker.
  This is a manifesto. And apart from the consistent spelling and grammar, the capitalized words aren't as random as Trump - way too many and too consistent. It's certainly a mimicked style by someone who thinks they know how Trump writes.
  Stephen Miller is the architect of the ICE policy and the one whipping the horses - it's gotta be him.
- Trump is a desperate pathetic wannabe despot and should be treated like the bitch he is. Tied up to a fuckin post for everyone to gawk at. ICE should be treated with the same contempt.
  
  I would also like a pony.
- Preventing admission of anyone who undermines the domestic tranquility of the United States.
  Any reasonable interpretation of this means that he just gave the order to keep himself from returning.
- Illegal aliens is starting to sound a lot like "Jews".
  I wouldn't be surprised if our president went off an bankers next.
- The population of those cities combined is around 15 million. He wants to deport millions upon millions. Whatcha gonna do about the crumbling infrastructure and buildings that will become ghost towns and ruins. Can't become great with manufacturing if we don't have people to fill those jobs. Even "great" leaders used slaves he's just making everywhere else greater by giving them back their labor force.
  
  That's why he's trying to criminalize any ideology besides whatever his is. RFK Jr also talked about "work camps" for people with mental health issues.
  
  Automation + AI will reduce the demand for labor force over the next 15 years.
- Ok courts, time to do your job, put this guy in check. This "official act" is unconstitutional and illegal, come on, do something.
- I don't think there's "legal" and "illegal" anymore in the US. It's "allowed" or "not allowed" by the king+oligarch.
- I always find it amusing that Republicans are so stupid they can listen to Trump simultaneously say that immigrants are taking all the good paying jobs but they are also lazy welfare parasites...
  
  Yes, that's actually part of the fascist mindset. It brings to mind Umberto Eco's 14 Common Features of Fascism, well, this one, anyway.
  The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
  Just as Biden was a doddering old fool who kept falling asleep, he was at the same time was a sinister mastermind running the deep state and destroying America. Modern American conservatives have no difficulty holding opposing concepts like these in mind at the same time. They are immune to cognitive dissonance.
- “Legal” doesn’t mean shit if no one enforces it.
  Alas, nothing has been enforced yet.
  Will it? Will judicial orders ever be enforced? I don’t know.
  What will it take for it to happen? Something ugly?
- Radical Democrats is awfully close to illegal Democrats.
I screamed "No ICE in Wichita" for 4 hours, and Im willing to continue that stance with a bat.
- I saw someone with the classic John f Kennedy quote "those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable" on a sign that was taped to a classic wooden bat. Probably my favor sign I've seen yet.
  
  Eye catching, easy to carry, makes a memorable statement, and handy if things get froggy.
  I like it, a lot.
- I'm willing to continue it with other weaponry.
- "Move ice! Get out the way! Get out the way ice, get out the way!"
  The "move" part hits pretty hard when you got thousands of people hitting it together. That one was my favorite.
‘No Kings’ protest cities
So ... like all the cities?
- ICE doesn't have enough people to intimidate a single blue city, let alone the country. They can't even operate in Los Angeles without the backup of a small number of National Guard and Marines and they're doing that illegal action over the governor's explicit objections.
  ICE are a bunch of cowards, doing safe, comfortable hits in suburbs and on people who are complying with the law. (Immigration hearings and workplaces.)
  
  When I saw the pictures of the protests in multiple cities, I realized that ICE, law enforcement, and the military don't stand a chance. They might be able to wipe out one protest, maybe even 2 or 3, but they could never get them all, and it's likely they'd be spread so thin, they couldn't significantly impact any of them.
  They have to be looking at the sizes of those protests, and getting worried. And they know there are plenty more at home. All they have is intimidation, the fear of violence, but now they know they are badly outnumbered, and the people know it, too.
  Crackdowns on these cities is a sign of panic, and panic is very dangerous. Stay alert, Patriots.
- This has kind of been the plan from the begining. He's trying to set metros to be in the position NYC was when he bought it for cheap.
  COVID blaming cities, riots flamed to get people to move out and not want to be there. It's geo politics. Once it gets shitty enough he will just buy up property and market it to wealthy.
  That's the game. Homies got his hustle. Mainstream or street it's all the same evil.
I want our Brave ICE Officers to know that REAL Americans are cheering you on every day
Oh, how subtle. If you're not cheering ICE on, you're not a REAL American. So you should be deported too!
- Many people are saying you’re insufficiently patriotic in support of Dear Leader, Herr jwiggler.
- Trump wants a whole country of people who cheer him and whatever he says.
Weren't the protests in pretty much every city in the country?
- The best I saw reporting in was a town of 800 in deep red Trump country with a turnout of 400. Wish I could remember the town. Faiy certain it was a rey on Lemmy but may have been bluesky.
  
  175 people showed up in Pulaski, TN. I live about an hour from there. That's where the KKK was founded. Deep as red gets (At least in my experience)
  
  No one in OK is tearing down my “Defund ICE” signs.
- About 2100 locations, per Indivisible. So yeah, ICE gonna be spread thin, I guess.
We’re already expecting the spite, personal attacks … even smaller places. My town is still pissed off from the last few weeks
masked thugs kidnapped a guy off the street and left his kid abandoned on the sidewalk (neighbors got him home)
other masked thugs roughed up and arrested a city councilor exercising his right to take videos from an appropriate distance
IMO, the next "No Kings" protest should be "No Kings II" and then the next III and so on. It's such a perfect name that we should keep it.
- Right?? The official logo on the site is amazing as well. I want a decal of it for my car tbh. Everything about this movement is so well put together
- No Kings the 2nd
- Yeah, I think it took at least 4 or 5 well-named peaceful protests to stop the Nazis, so you’re right on track.
  
  I hate this criticism so much. You want others to start an armed revolution that you won't.
  It's peak arm chair hypocrisy
- It also needs to stay on focus without devolving into a catch-all for every liberal agenda item. No Palestine, no LGBT+, just presidential overreach. Otherwise participation gets limited and we lose the needed numbers.
  
  Every single thing you mentioned was there at that march. That's why it was so successful, because everyone who is pissed off felt welcome.
  
  Tell me you don't know how protests work without telling me.
  
  yeah! just the topic at hand! you’re not allowed to feel angry about a specific way in which it has personally harmed you! only the things i care about are valid!
  
  In which elementary grade you are and hasn't ChatGPT explain you already what a protest is?
  
  Like “woke”. I get what you mean.
Literally gestapo
But don't you remember that time Biden said, "I want double, triple vaccinations in red states! They'll pay for calling COVID 'the flu'!" /s
Keep sharing this, The Tramp's grandfather was an immigrant from Germany, fleeing mandatory conscription to the army. Due to this, he was banned from the German Empire.
GERMAN CHANCELLOR MERZ stuns TRUMP with GRANDFATHER'S birth certificate GIFT
He's getting away with it.
I guess we really do have a king.
He's trying to get us mad and become violent so he can declare martial law. He wants his opposition to look more like bad guys to his fan base.
- They'll false-flag or just start killing people. They don't need a reason anymore.
  This whole "don't have violent protests because they'll declare martial law" is a psyop preparing people for martial law and pre-loading it with the assumption that when it does happen (and it will) it will be the fault of the protesters, despite evidence to the contrary.
  Fascism 101 guys. Don't be a sucker.
- Those fucking idiots only need a pointed finger and the word "liberal" to believe something is bad.
- He doesn't need to try shit. Trump does what ever the fuck he wants. Both Congress and the courts just go along with it because apparently our founding fathers wanted the president to have absolute power. The deployment of the national guard and the Marines to LA is unequivocally illegal, but Trump did it anyway and the government dosen't seem to be in a hurry to remove the troops.
Hey DOGE! I found the waste, fraud, and corruption. ICE.
Stop payment of federal taxes
- Newsom is already threatening to do exactly that.
Please. Send them here. In clearly labeled vehicles. With nice uniforms that have large letters.
- We'd like to see their faces too.
  Otherwise how we supposed to know they're not reich-wing political assassins or cartel gang members in disguise? They could fake their ID and warrants as well, better just capture them and work it all out in court, in front of a judge. Which is better than they're offering, or deserve
Gonna be fun when they run outta money. Are those racist fucks gonna work without pay?
- theyre very passionate about their work
  
  They're also just gonna tax the fuck out of us to do this.
- Money printer go brrrr
  ...naw, they'll just use looting as payment, arrest people to deport and keep their stuff
And when there are no more illegal immigrants, guess who is going to have to fill in for their jobs and pay level.
- When there are no more illegal immigrants, who will Trump gun for next?
  
  Indians. Mark my words. The nativist/racist MAGAts HATE Indians! If only the Indian Trump voters realized this. JD Vance doenst have full respect of MAGA because of his wife Usha, who he does still care about on some level.
  
  Just pick an ethnicity (except caucasian)
Oh, you mean most of them?
I'm GLAD Democrats decided NOT to Weaponize Justice while being Gunned Down! OTHERWISE ICE might think TWICE about Following Illegal Orders! FORTUNATELY if Democrats ever Take Power they'll Pretend NOTHING ever happened!
There's that word again. Remigration.
- a "soft type of ethnic cleansing under the guise of deportation and segregation ".
Shouldn't he be focused on the G7?
- Trump already left G7 to supposedly "focus on the escalating Israeli-Iran conflict."
  That's not the reason why he left. He's leaving early because he tried to hijack the G7 conference with his usual, personal grievance bullshit and to make the entire conference all about HIM, like he always does. But they weren't having it and they told him to go home and get his f*cking shine box. So now, he's leaving in a huff because they hurt his childish, rodentine feelings.
  
  "Rodentine". I like that word and I'll be adding it to my repertoire. Thanks!
How is this man our president
- Broken election system that let's the PACs and the rich control it. Ban PAC donations and limit campaign funding.
- We're an empire in decline. I imagine we'd probably feel quite a deal of spiritual kinship with Romans living under Nero or Caligula
So all of them?
- Yeah but only the ones they can remember. So basically LA and those ones with all the black people in them.
  
  Probably asked ChatGPT for a list
So all of them?
Is this a red line
we know ICE are less than 8k. As that’s all who attended the military parade if you’re not counting the geriatric and children who were dragged along to it
ICE really is his GeStaPo.
Trump wants ICE to get shot
There aren't enough of them to enforce this. Keep obstructing them.
We told you soooo~ :)
time to start filling balloons with questionable substances.
- Next thing you know the ICE police are all hugging each other because "we're all connected."

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