⚡ There really is an occupation.
Hundreds of Guard troops remain in Los Angeles. Thousands are entrenched in D.C. with checkpoints and tribunals. Chicago has been warned twice in two days that the military is going there next.
Meanwhile, DHS says it has been erasing officials’ texts for months and has already refused a FOIA request. Abrego Garcia was told he would be sent to Costa Rica if he pled guilty or Uganda if he refused.
Troops in the streets, laws bent or shredded, and fear as leverage are the hallmarks of the authoritarians Trump admires: Kim Jong Un, Orbán, Putin, and Bolsonaro.
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DHS orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia deported to Uganda within 72 hours after his release from a Tennessee jail, five months after wrongful expulsion to El Salvador.
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