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"Huge numbers of American fundamentalists and evangelicals—not just cultural Christians, but also those who faithfully attend church and Bible-study sessions and prayer gatherings—prefer the MAGA Jesus to the real Jesus. Few of them would say so explicitly, though, because the cognitive dissonance would be too unsettling. And so they have worked hard to construct rationalizations."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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“'It has become virtually impossible to write a survey question about immigration policy that is too harsh for white evangelicals to support,' Robert P. Jones, the president of the Public Religion Research Institute, recently wrote."
~ Peter Wehner
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…
MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus
Trump is causing incalculable damage to the Christian faith, yet most evangelicals will never break with him.Peter Wehner (The Atlantic)
The Guardian interviews residents of the Twin Cities who are being pursued by ICE and who report that ICE is racially profiling people. Suleiman Adan states,
“It’s like you’re looking for game. It’s like you’re hunting; who can I prey on today? Right now, it’s like ‘to hell with the constitution.’"
~ Melissa Hellmann
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/22
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‘It’s like they’re hunting’: US citizens and legal residents report increase in racial profiling by ICE
Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has led some people to take drastic measures to ensure their safetyMelissa Hellmann (The Guardian)
"DHS did not contest the authenticity of the [leaked] memo [which claims that ICE has the right to invade homes without a warrant], which was signed by Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/21
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Secret Internal Memo Exposes the Scale of ICE’s Lawlessness
INSIDE: Renee Good ... Lisa Cook ... Hannah NatansonDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"When you think about this past year, for many Americans, it was one of just shock. The complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, individual rights, due process. ...
We have not seen this extreme escalation of activities from our law enforcement in my history."
~ Derrick Johnson, NAACP President
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/20
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Trump's Shocking First Year | NAACP President Derrick Johnson Joins Journalist Sarah Rumpf
"When you think about this past year, for many Americans, it was one of just shock. The complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, individual rights, due process."Lincoln Square
"Push the narrative, especially the narrative not just of the horrors, which is important for people to view, but also the narrative and the actions on the side of the people who are standing with and for each other, who are pitching in for their neighbors, who are actually standing up mutual aid and street by street, block by block ICE watches. We also need to be telling the story of the good people, the heroes."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #strike
/19
As Minnesotans organize a general strike tomorrow to oppose the ICE attack on their state — businesses closing, restaurants shuttered, schools shut down, etc. — Anat Shenker-Osorio tells the rest of us how we can support this:
"Be in solidarity."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #strike
/18
"It suggests a conspiracy within ICE leadership to deprive people of their civil rights—all while hiding the evidence, in the form of a written departmental memo, purporting to authorize the conduct."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/17
"Per a blockbuster report by the Associated Press, ICE agents have received actual secret instructions from their higher-ups to disregard established Fourth Amendment home protections. This is not just a violation of our cherished constitutionally guaranteed liberties."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/16
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The ICE Men Cometh… Illegally
A blockbuster whistleblower complaint reveals the secret internal ICE memo behind the brutal forced home entries we are seeing.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"Federal immigration authorities under the Department of Homeland Security launched an ICE crackdown dubbed 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine as part of the Trump administration’s deportation push, prompting heightened concern in cities like Portland, where Mayor Mark Dion said residents are on high alert amid recent migrant arrivals."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #cruelty #Maine
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"While aggressive deportation tactics by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have garnered headlines, cuts to the admission of legal immigrants will have a profound impact on the country and millions of people.”
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #cruelty
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“New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce legal immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years. Restricting Americans’ ability to sponsor their closest family members will be the administration’s primary way to lower legal immigration."
~ Stuart Anderson
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #cruelty
/12
"Trump’s approval on immigration has dropped to 44% approve / 53% disapprove (net -9), and his deportation policy is at 42% / 54% (net -12). Border security remains his only positive issue at 50% / 46% (net +4). Trump’s numbers on all three have declined since our last poll in October, 2025."
~ G. Elliott Morris
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #violence #ApprovalRating
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New poll: Trump loses ground on immigration; Dems lead 2026 House vote by 8 points
The new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats start 2026 with their biggest lead yet on the 2026 House vote, while Trump approval sinks on immigration, deportations, and public safetyG. Elliott Morris (Strength In Numbers)
"Lunas Campos died of asphyxiation after guards put pressure on his neck and chest during an altercation during which Lunas Campos asked for his medication. Two detainees testified that they saw guards choking Lunas Campos, who repeatedly told them he couldn’t breathe. The Trump administration has since tried to deport the two witnesses."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Texas #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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January 21, 2026
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this morning, a visibly exhausted president of the United States of America rambled in angry free association in a speech before the world’s leaders.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
“'Based on the investigative and examination findings, it is my opinion that the cause of death is asphyxia due to neck and torso compression,' Adam C. Gonzalez, deputy medical examiner for El Paso County, said in the report. 'The manner of death is homicide.'”
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Texas #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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"The recent death of a detainee [Geraldo Lunas Campos] at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner."
~ Douglas MacMillan
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #KristiNoem #DHS #Texas #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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"Vance is visiting the Twin Cities today, and they’ve launched a new operation in Maine. For in their collective madness this will to power, this need to feel their boot on our neck, their seizing of Gaza and Venezuela - all of it has become the central project of the regime. It is not about what is good for the country. It is about more and more power and control."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #JDVance #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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Appeasement Never Works, Only Strength - Lessons From An Ugly Week (New Video, Analysis)
We must remember at all times that Trump has chosen not to govern with us, or for us, but against us - for they are scared of us, of the power of the peopleSimon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
"This [i.e., ICE breaking into homes without a valid warrant] is a deeply disturbing development and one we’ll be following closely. It is such a departure from established Fourth Amendment rules that it’s perilously close to open disregard for constitutional rights."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
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ICE Says It Doesn't Need A Judicial Warrant
It’s been a long time since we took a night off.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches."
~ Rebecca Santana
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
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"This is only the latest cruel outrage I’ve heard about. All this is being done in our name — the United States of America — with our authority, our tax dollars, and, seemingly, our acquiescence."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence #children
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"ICE agents have kidnapped a 5-year-old child to use him as “bait” to arrest his parents. The child and his father are now in a detention center in Texas, although no one knows their exact whereabouts. They were in America legally."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence #children
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Seriously, what can we do about the fascist now loose upon America?
We’re in a far more dangerous and violent stage of Trump’s regime. What should we do to stop it?Robert Reich
"The Columbia Heights [Minnesota] Public School district says federal agents have detained four of its students in four separate incidents over the last two weeks. One child is a 5-year-old boy who attends a district elementary school and was used as 'bait' to draw family members out of their home."
~ Elizabeth Shockman
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence #children
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“'Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing that his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community, to have successful businesses—to live a rewarding life.' This—not 'saving' our 'dying' country, as Miller absurdly claims Trump is doing—will be Miller’s ugly legacy."
#StephenMiller #Trump #immigrants #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
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"We’re giving the last word to Miller’s cousin on his father’s side, Alisa Kasmer. Over the summer, Kasmer posted a scalding Facebook takedown of Miller that made big news. She refused all subsequent interview requests. But she agreed to talk to me for this piece."
“'We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing,' Kasmer told me."
#StephenMiller #Trump #immigrants #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
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"It should go without saying that if immigrants were dissolving our social bonds in any sense that most normal people care about, Miller and his allies would not have to lie constantly about immigrants committing crimes, about immigrants stealing social welfare benefits, and about immigrants adopting alienating social habits like eating people’s pets."
#StephenMiller #Trump #immigrants #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
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Yet "Miller’s own ancestors were subjected to similar claims: They, too, were deemed unfit to participate in the inheritance of Western civilization that the U.S. represented at the beginning of the 20th century. Obviously history disproved this, as does Miller’s own story."
#StephenMiller #Trump #immigrants #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
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"At the core of Miller’s worldview is the idea that the immigration levels and humanitarian resettlement programs that existed under Biden posed an existential threat to American civilization, whereas those that now exist under Trump will preserve it from ruin and even outright extinction."
#StephenMiller #Trump #immigrants #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
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Part two of Sargent's series opens:
“'If you import the Third World, you become the Third World,' Stephen Miller declared as the presidential campaign heated up in 2024. “Elect Joe Biden, and America becomes the Third World.
This is one of the single most revealing quotes Miller has ever uttered."
#StephenMiller #Trump #immigrants #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
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The Dark Ideology Behind Stephen Miller's Immigration Crusade: Part II
He believes immigration threatens Western civilization itself, echoing the same xenophobia once directed at his own ancestorsGreg Sargent (The UnPopulist)
Yesterday, I posted some excerpts from a series of essays Greg Sargent has published about the dark ideology behind Stephen Miller's immigrant crusade. A link to that posting is here:
theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi…
Today, Sargent has published a second, and concluding, essay in this series. I'll post the link for that part of the essay in my next posting in this thread.
#StephenMiller #Trump #immigrants #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
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Stephen Miller’s Assault on America’s Immigrant Legacy: Part I
The man whose Russian Jewish ancestors fled persecution now oversees a sweeping deportation machine designed to terrorize immigrant familiesGreg Sargent (The UnPopulist)
"Trump is attempting to create his own occupying army for resistant localities. Initially this took the form of National Guard troops that — along with ICE agents — descended on Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago, carrying out military-style raids utilizing tear gas and stun grenades. But after the bill passed, ICE had more resources. In a matter of months, the number of ICE agents doubled from 10,000 to 22,000."
~ Silky Shah
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants
/17
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Trump Has Made ICE the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the Country | Truthout
With Congress-approved funding, ICE detention is expected to triple in size, mirroring the scale of Japanese internment.britney (Truthout)
"Despite what might seem like their overwhelming force, those 3,000 CBP agents and ICE officers are wildly outnumbered by Angry Minnesota Neighbors. Moreover, these Bovino operations are hugely resource-intensive, and can only happen in 2-3 cities at the same time across the country.
The terror — and danger — is real, yes, but don’t let that blind you to the fact that right now on America’s streets, good people are winning."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #Minnesota
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"We know precisely how much of ICE and CBP’s current strategy is just out-and-out racial profiling because during the brief window last summer when an LA judge ordered them to stop racial profiling, arrests dropped by 2/3.
The deportation rate of people without criminal convictions went up nearly ten-fold in 2025, and the rate of deportations of people who have been in the US for four years or longer nearly tripled."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #Minnesota
/15
"Now ICE officers are cruising the streets of America without any idea who they’re looking for — they’re conducting 'Kavanaugh Stops,' profiling people of color anywhere they dare show their face in public. Heavily armed CBP agents, meanwhile, are raiding Home Depot parking lots to round up day laborers because it’s the low-hanging fruit of immigration enforcement."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #Minnesota
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"There is a US city living under occupation by fascist presidential secret police right now. ...
The moment that Stephen Miller set his '3000 arrests a day' quote last spring, ICE and CBP had to abandon any pretext of doing targeted enforcement operations; it took too long and required too many officers."
~ Garrett Graff
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #Minnesota
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"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.Garrett Graff (Doomsday Scenario)
"[Brooklyn Park Mark] Bruley’s words show that ICE is not only engaging in racial profiling; they are desperate. It’s now known that the Trump administration feels that it can target just about anyone in its immigration enforcement efforts, contrary to laws and the Constitution."
~ Hafiz Rashid
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #Minnesota
/12
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Minnesota Police Chief Warns ICE Is Targeting His Cops Now
Masked ICE agents are terrorizing Minnesota residents—including local police officers.The New Republic
"Further, all three said their own off-duty officers of color — all US citizens — had reported being pulled over by ICE thugs who wanted to see their 'immigration' papers, noting that if it can happen to cops in their private vehicles, it can happen to anyone."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #Minnesota
/11
"All three of the top local cops said they were getting 'endless complaints from US citizens' about harassment by ICE, and that DHS hasn’t done dick to communicate with local law enforcement."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #Minnesota
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"Donald Trump’s federal occupation of Minnesota’s Twin Cities has poured something like 3,000 deportation officers into the area, and on Tuesday a trio of local police leaders held a press conference at the state Capitol to warn that the DHS goons’ out of control actions are undermining the public’s trust in law enforcement."
~ Marty Kelley
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #Minnesota
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ICE Now Demanding Papers From Off-Duty Cops Caught Driving While Brown
Well of course that's happening.Doktor Zoom (Wonkette)
"Minnesota police chiefs came out against ICE tactics as civil rights violations after numerous off-duty officers of color were repeatedly stopped by federal agents."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #Minnesota
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The Judicial Branch Didn’t Actually Cover Itself In Glory in the Lindsey Halligan Saga
INSIDE: Pam Bondi ... Renee Good ... Lisa CookDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Miller plainly places more importance on reducing the totals of people here—or trying to get here—than on removing people who pose any actual danger. He appears to be actively prioritizing shifting the ethnic mix of the country over public safety."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing #cruelty
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