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"So as Trump tries to woo Latino voters by wrapping himself in Our Lady of Guadalupe's mantel:
"That’s why, as we end a terrible year and Trump vows to escalate his cruel anti-immigrant campaign in the next one, Catholics and non-Catholics alike need to remember who Our Lady of Guadalupe is like never before. She’s more than just an iconic image; this dark-skinned María stands against everything Trump and his brand of Catholicism preaches."
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics
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"Now that Catholics are at the top, they’re the ones pushing policies that persecute the new generation of immigrants, Catholic and not. They mock the exhortations of church leaders to follow the Bible’s many commands to protect the stranger, the meek, the least and the poor by arguing that deporting the undocumented is somehow righteous."
"That’s the sad irony of seeing Catholicism have such a prominent role in Trump’s second term. The main defamers of Catholics in the United States have been Protestants since the days of the founding fathers. They cast successive waves of immigrants — Irish, Italians, Poles, Mexicans, Vietnamese — as evil, stupid immigrants beholden to Rome. They wrongly predicted each group would ruin the American way of life."
"A study released earlier this year by a coalition of evangelical and Catholic groups found that 61% of immigrants at risk of deportation in this country identify as Catholic, while nearly one-fifth of U.S. Catholics 'would be impacted' by someone being deported. The latter figure is nearly three times the rate that evangelicals face and four times the rate of other Christian denominations."
As a result:
"Members of my faith are in positions of power in this country like never before. Vice President JD Vance is a convert. A majority of the Supreme Court are practicing Catholics. Names of past Catholic diasporas like Kennedy, Bondi, Loeffler and Rubio dot Trump’s Cabinet."
But on the other hand:
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics #evangelicals #JDVance #SupremeCourt #PamBondi #MarcoRubio #RFKJr #KarolineLeavitt
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On the eve of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Gustavo Arellano writes about the "sad irony" of the role Catholics are playing in the Trump administration and American society under Trump: as he notes, "2025 will go down as one of the best and worst years ever to be a Catholic in the United States."
On the one hand:
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics #evangelicals
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In Trump's regime, Catholics are among the most powerful — and deported
Her brown face, green mantle and forgiving gaze is a mainstay of Southern California: In front yards.Gustavo Arellano (Los Angeles Times)
"An official government webpage promises US residency 'in record time' with the new 'Trump Gold Card' – once applicants have paid a $15,000 processing fee to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), passed a background check and paid up $1m."
#Trump #immigrants #visas
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"Donald Trump launched a new program that will allow wealthy foreign individuals to buy a US 'golden visa' for $1m, and trailed a 'platinum' version for $5m.
'A direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people. SO EXCITING! Our Great American Companies can finally keep their invaluable Talent,' Trump wrote on Wednesday on social media."
~ Marina Dunbar
#Trump #immigrants #visas
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Trump launches $1m ‘gold card’ visa scheme amid immigration crackdown
Wealthy immigrants will be able to buy residency, and $5m ‘platinum card’ will exempt holders from some US taxesMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
"Per a draft for an action memo outlining options for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the administration is weighing a move to revoke the visas of Former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #Europe #NSS #ElonMusk #FreeSpeech
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"Donald Trump’s administration is in high-level talks to revoke the visas of two European green card holders, according to documentation seen by Zeteo. Both are prominent critics of Twitter (also known as 'X'), the social media site owned by on-again-off-again Trump pal, Elon Musk."
~ Prem Thakker and Asawin Suebsaeng
#Trump #immigrants #visas #Europe #NSS #ElonMusk #FreeSpeech
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Trump May Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Donald Trump may try to revoke the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
"You are locking up and deporting children with cancer, mothers with babies in the NICU. There are many problems with your leadership, but the biggest problem is this you don’t seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys.”
Then Noem ran out of the hearing claiming she had somewhere else to be.
#Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #immigrants
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Representative Rep. Seth Magaziner told Trump's Department of Homeland Security person Kristi Noem today:
“You promised America that you would go after the worst of the worst. But these people are not the worst of the worst. A Purple Heart recipient, a military spouse, the father of three Marines. And it’s not just veterans and military families."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #immigrants
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 268. 12/11/25
… A contentious exchange took place today between Kristi Noem and Rep.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"Meanwhile, millions of average, harmless travelers — fans coming for the World Cup, families planning a California road trip, Canadians who used to drive across the border to buy gas and discount Oreos — are instead being greeted with a digital strip-search and a bill for extra fees, background checks, and biometrics more suited to a dystopian sci-fi reboot."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption #travel #tourism
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"Human rights violators who make the TSA look like the Girl Scouts. People who do not care what nonsense the CBP (Customs and Border Protection) asks for, because their 'online activity' doesn’t exist or is conveniently curated by a PR team large enough to staff a minor embassy."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption #travel #tourism
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"What kind of person has both $5 million in liquid assets and a pressing need for American residency without scrutiny?
I’ll tell you who.
Money launderers. Drug traffickers. Russian oligarchs whose yachts have been seized more times than Trump has contradicted himself in a single sentence."
~ Michael Cohen
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption
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Your Profile Pic Better Be Patriotic
A surveillance circus with Trump selling backstage passes, America now demands your DMs, biometrics, and dignity; unless you’ve got a million dollars to buy your innocence.Michael Cohen (Meidas+)
"More than 20 members of Congress are demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and homeland security officials after the Guardian revealed the VA is compiling a report on all non-US citizens 'employed by or affiliated with' the government agency that will then be shared with other federal agencies, including immigration authorities."
~ José Olivares and Aaron Glantz
"This document basically ... is fundamentally hostile to the European Union because A, it sees it as a potential bulwark against an illiberal United States aligning with autocracies, and B, it really does not want to see an integrated liberal organization succeed."
#Trump #NSS #immigrants #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"It's a very interesting statement to just say the era of mass migration is over as a basis of American foreign policy. The era of mass migration is not over because the problems driving migration are not going away and in many cases they're getting worse."
~ Joe Stieb
#Trump #NSS #immigrants #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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youtube.com/watch?v=IZUamURosu…
The Culture War Eats Foreign Policy
Join Samantha and guest Joe Stieb, assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill, as they talk about Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy. This strange do...YouTube
"Support for Trump’s immigration policies have dropped across nearly every demographic over the first year of Trump’s second term. Today, only 43% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing handling immigration, a decrease of 5 percentage points since March 2025. Notably, the steepest decline in approval over the past year—11 points—comes from political independents. ...
The data shows that Americans overwhelmingly reject Trump’s mass deportation policies."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE
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"While the Catholic bishops may be showing signs of ambivalence, there are signs that Americans overall are sympathetic to these churches who are taking a stand. This week, PRRI released new analysis of American attitudes on immigration reform that show Americans are rejecting Trump’s dehumanizing, racist rhetoric and harsh immigration policies."
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #CatholicBishops
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Robert P. Jones notes that though the US Catholic bishops have issued a rare statement condemning Trump's attacks on Immigrants, the archdiocese of Boston has leaned on a Catholic parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, to take down its Christmas creche, which indicts ICE for cruelty to immigrants.
He writes,
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #CatholicBishops
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whitetoolong.net/p/ice-and-emp…
ICE and Empty Mangers: New Polling Shows Americans Reject Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda
PLUS, an announcement about my next book.Robert P. Jones (White Too Long by Robert P. Jones)
"One key difference between 1930s Germany and 2020s USA is that 1930s Germany didn't have 90 years of books, movies, and documentaries warning it about 1930s Germany."
~ Tom Lennon
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Nazis
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"It tends to pit the kind of middle class white upper middle class white person is the victim you know, the culture is changing and it's, it's toxic and it's terrible. And we have to fight against this, you know, horrible, evil culture. And it, it, it just, it's like a, it's kind of like a, I call it the rollercoaster paranoia."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants #FoxNews
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"Fox news is kind of a paranoia fear rollercoaster for folks who a lot of them are near the end of their life. They're seniors. They've been retired for years and years and they sit down, they turn it on. And it's this, kind of constant they're coming for you and we'll save you and don't worry."
~ Juliet Jeske
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants #FoxNews
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How Right-Wing Media Keeps Us Outraged | It's the Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath & Juliet Jeske
Juliet watches Fox News so you don't have to. She breaks down why it's not really a news outlet — it's a fear-conditioning system.Edwin Eisendrath (Lincoln Square)
"No rejection, no detention, no zip ties or shackles. Jesus, Joseph and Mary immigrated to Egypt. Jesus was an immigrant."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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"In this Christmas season, all of us who say we are Christian have to remember that in our faith story, a tyrant King seeks to kill all the babies in his empire out of spite and threat. Jesus’ parents take him to Egypt to keep him alive. They seek refuge and safety and are welcomed their."
~ Jacqui Lewis
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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Jesus was an immigrant
The church MUST respond to the current crisis with love.Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (Fierce Love)
"White Christians, who are America’s most conservative citizens, hold the most radically right wing views on immigration, per the lates information from the Public Religion Research Institute. ... They would definitely deport baby Jesus."
~ Joy-Ann Reid and Kahlil Greene
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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Fox's Jingle Bells crash-out, Kahlil, and me
The Foxies launch their annual "war on Christmas" charade by attacking me for boosting a young historian's postJoy-Ann Reid (Welcome to Joy's House!)
"We find those Americans who are the strongest adherents to that ideology, about one in 10 Americans, really look very distinct on immigration policy. They're, I think, the most draconian in their views about immigration."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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"I think, for me, the biggest takeaway from the [PRRI] survey is that the Trump administration's second term immigration agenda is mobilizing his base, particularly white evangelical Protestants and Christian nationalists, but it's really alienating a lot of other Americans across the board."
~ Melissa Deckman
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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Trump: An Unpopular Populist President?
Melissa Deckman reveals rapidly declining support for Trump's immigration policies.The Contrarian
"White Christian groups are the most likely to approve of the job Trump is doing handling immigration, including nearly three in four white evangelical Protestants. A majority of white mainline/non-evangelical Protestants (62%) and white Catholics (59%) also approve of Trump’s job on immigration."
~ PRRI
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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The New Immigration Crackdown: Where Americans Stand - PRRI
A new PRRI report considers how receptive Americans are to the second Trump administration’s handling of immigration and their support for several different…PRRI
(continued from /6)
"that if human enslavement could not spread to the West, the growing population of Black Americans in the South would overwhelm them, probably with violence."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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"The MAGA claim that white Christians in the United States and Europe are engaged in an existential fight to protect their superior race from being overwhelmed by inferior racial stocks has roots in the U.S. that reach all the way back to the fears of white southerners in the 1850s" (continued in /7)
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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December 12, 2025
Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the state’s next governor.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"The coercive powers of the state would be mobilized to curtail the rights of those who dare to deviate and entrench a tiered system of participation defined by hierarchies of race, gender, religion, wealth, and ancestry. A segregationist policy would restore white male dominance in elite institutions as well as across all spheres of American life."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism #patriarchy #heterosexism #women #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"Donald Trump pursues a political project for which white nationalism serves as an organizing principle. ...
The Trumpists desire to drastically narrow the boundaries of who gets to belong, they seek to purge all others from the 'homeland.' Those who are left would be living in a society that is not only unequal but has ostracized egalitarian aspirations as heresy."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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(continued from /3)
"and to fight instead for white Christian male supremacy at home and in the world. ...
That is true for Donald Trump himself also. He is not just a grumpy old man indulging in racist stereotypes, but a politician committed to a worldview shaped and organized by racism and white supremacy. What is on display here is not just personal bigotry."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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"They are tied to a much broader rightwing attempt to reconceptualize national identity and drastically narrow the boundaries of who gets to belong. They are actualizations of the Right’s defining project: To roll back any progress towards egalitarian pluralism, to vanquish the very idea that America should aspire to be a nation defined by equal citizenship in a pluralistic, multiracial society," (continued in /4)
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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The NSS document tries to bully Europe into adopting MAGA notions of white supremacy and Christian nationalism as guiding principles. Zimmer says,
"These aren’t just a few racist outbursts or isolated escalations. These are not separate policy initiatives. These are manifestations of a worldview defined by white nationalism as its organizing principle."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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Thomas Zimmer notes that after the shooting of National Guard members in D.C., Trump said that he would shut the doors of America to anyone "non-compatible with Western civilization." He then attacked Somali immigrantss and Ilhan Omar, calling them "garbage." Kristi Noem's followed by calling immigranta "foreign invaders." Stephen Miller attacked birthright ciitzenship. Then there's the new NSS document.
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism
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Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalistSteady
"Amid immigration raids in Louisiana, dozens gathered at a New Orleans church for a candlelight vigil, praying for both those detained and for law enforcement officials.
The Dec. 9 service was held at Holy Name of Jesus Church in New Orleans, located on the campus of Loyola University.
Jesuit Fr. Mark Thibodeaux, the parish's pastor, welcomed attendees to the 'solemn occasion' of prayer 'for refugees and immigrants.'"
~ Gina Christian
#immigrants #churches #ICE
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"This [NSS document] is the 'Great Replacement' theory, applied globally. It is the same might-makes-right worldview of the worst neocons, but in service of the abhorrent principle of segregation instead of democracy, and suggesting a future of American imperialism unmoored from any pretense of a belief in the equality of mankind."
#Trump #NSS #Europe #NATO #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #TechBros #broligarchy
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