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Republicans have funded the world's largest police state -- Sabrina Haake
https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/republicans-have-funded-the-worldsWorse than cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, republicans just gave the unprincipled goons at ICE more money than the US spends on its entire federal prison system.
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Republicans just created an American police state
Even worse than the misery awaiting America’s poor and working class, the bill specifically funds a new and unprecedented American police state. Draped in anti-immigrant language, the bill creates a standing army of masked ICE agents, and funds enough of them to terrorize every city in the nation.
The bill provides $45 billion to build new immigration detention centers, and a 265 percent annual budget increase to ICE’s current detention budget. This funding level is a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system, where 155,933 inmates are currently incarcerated, some of them for life. Trump will soon spend more on ICE domestic apprehensions, transportation and detentions than most nations spend on their entire military budgets.
Republicans are building a police state beyond the comprehension of most Americans. We’ve all seen the videos of ICE goons beating migrants in front of their children; any one of them could have been recruited from Trump’s applicant pool of pardoned felons. After Trump was somehow re-elected, he pardoned rioters who were convicted of violent felonies and assaults against police officers during Trump’s J6 uprising. Here, he at least gets a nod for sinister efficiency: J6 cultists who thrive on hate in service to Trump need something to do. They were already armed and in search of political violence, why not give ‘em an ICE badge? If they were recorded while beating capital police with vigor, or carrying a noose for Mike Pence because he honored the Constitution over Trump, all the better.
Trump’s $1 trillion defense budget will not end well
Trump now has $1 trillion—with a T— to spend on his defense budget. Anyone wondering how he’s going to spend it, after shamefully withholding military aid and weaponry Congress already approved for Ukraine, should consider Pete Hegseth. Trump’s SecDef recently testified before Congress and described how national defense, under Trump, is transitioning from a force fighting foreign threats into a “domestic affair,” testifying that,
“we’re entering another phase, especially under President Trump with his focus on the homeland, where the National Guard and Reserves become a critical component of how we secure that homeland.”
. . .
If anyone doubted Trump’s death grip on the Republican Party, the police state we’re embarking on will remove all doubt. Republicans will now die with Trump, or democracy will die with them.
Republicans just created an American police state
Even worse than the misery awaiting America’s poor and working class, the bill specifically funds a new and unprecedented American police state. Draped in anti-immigrant language, the bill creates a standing army of masked ICE agents, and funds enough of them to terrorize every city in the nation.
The bill provides $45 billion to build new immigration detention centers, and a 265 percent annual budget increase to ICE’s current detention budget. This funding level is a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system, where 155,933 inmates are currently incarcerated, some of them for life. Trump will soon spend more on ICE domestic apprehensions, transportation and detentions than most nations spend on their entire military budgets.
Republicans are building a police state beyond the comprehension of most Americans. We’ve all seen the videos of ICE goons beating migrants in front of their children; any one of them could have been recruited from Trump’s applicant pool of pardoned felons. After Trump was somehow re-elected, he pardoned rioters who were convicted of violent felonies and assaults against police officers during Trump’s J6 uprising. Here, he at least gets a nod for sinister efficiency: J6 cultists who thrive on hate in service to Trump need something to do. They were already armed and in search of political violence, why not give ‘em an ICE badge? If they were recorded while beating capital police with vigor, or carrying a noose for Mike Pence because he honored the Constitution over Trump, all the better.
Trump’s $1 trillion defense budget will not end well
Trump now has $1 trillion—with a T— to spend on his defense budget. Anyone wondering how he’s going to spend it, after shamefully withholding military aid and weaponry Congress already approved for Ukraine, should consider Pete Hegseth. Trump’s SecDef recently testified before Congress and described how national defense, under Trump, is transitioning from a force fighting foreign threats into a “domestic affair,” testifying that,
“we’re entering another phase, especially under President Trump with his focus on the homeland, where the National Guard and Reserves become a critical component of how we secure that homeland.”
. . .
If anyone doubted Trump’s death grip on the Republican Party, the police state we’re embarking on will remove all doubt. Republicans will now die with Trump, or democracy will die with them.