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struggle4progress

(127,423 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 05:26 AM 7 hrs ago

What One Week of Trump News Says

Trump’s constant cruelty can make it all seem routine.
Sasha Abramsky

... As is now common practice after ICE shoots an immigrant, the agency immediately declared that Araujo had “weaponized” his vehicle and tried to run over agents. In response, agents shot him in the stomach, which in itself raises a host of questions—if they really were shooting in self-defense into a moving vehicle, how could they have shot into the car at an angle that would have hit Araujo in his abdomen? ...

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-cruelty-immigrants-jose-salgado-araujo/

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What One Week of Trump News Says (Original Post) struggle4progress 7 hrs ago OP
The real reason for ICE is to get Americans used to roaming gangs of abusive thugs wandering around, threatening people raccoon 7 hrs ago #1
"And when they came for me, no one was left to speak out" struggle4progress 7 hrs ago #2

raccoon

(32,516 posts)
1. The real reason for ICE is to get Americans used to roaming gangs of abusive thugs wandering around, threatening people
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 05:30 AM
7 hrs ago

and making them fearful.

Nazi Germany called them Brown Shirts. And in Nazi Germany they didn't wear masks.

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