I think the appeal of this is not solely about being virulently anti-immigrant. It’s about how using big violence to do big things is feasible. They want you to dream about how if they use force against 11 million people, which people they could use force on next.
Stephen Miller and Donald Trump have promised to deport 15 million people. Miller himself compared their plan's scope to the construction of the Panama Canal, and its ruthlessness to Israel’s invasion of Gaza. They couldn’t be any clearer about what they intend.
The former president's vow to deport 15 million people is the cruelest, most illiberal, most openly authoritarian campaign promise in modern U.S. history. Oh, and it would also destroy the economy.
And, from a tactics perspective on preserving the power of the GOP (and oligarchs) a strong and pervasive police/surveillance state is going to be ever more necessary (a lesson learned from the BLM protests - this is one way to condition military intervention in protests by starting with immigrants)
People who watched Duterte's drug war not with horror but with an erection.
Just wait until they reveal that they’re planning to “deport” them to Madagascar & the NYT phrases it as “relocation.”
4 million are citizens
Especially since someone will have to be the sin-eater for the ridiculous recession this would cause
I definitely agree. They'll test their limits against the most vulnerable target group and keep expanding from there.
Fear is the point. They want us to be afraid of them, and to sit down shut up and let them rule
...and they never realize that it will be used on them.
Until they find themselves on the other side of the equation. No doubt many trump supporters of Latino heritage will be surprised to find themselves amongst the round-up. And per trump’s usual behavior, he won’t be there to save them.
With Miller, it's difficult to tell which he whacks harder to: the exercise of authoritarian power or the misery inflicted on people who aren't white.