🛑 The crackdown is here.
Trump is sending 300 National Guard troops into Chicago over the governor and mayor’s objections. Border Patrol shot a second citizen there today. Trump tried sending troops to Portland too, but a federal judge stopped him.
Running afoul of the government has consequences. DOJ wants to add 22+ years to a woman’s sentence for the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh three years ago. And a Venezuelan singer who migrated legally and won asylum was held more than 2 months past that date. He released an anti-deportation song two months before his detention.
There is no more time for you to consider. You have to be building resistance to this every day in your community with your federal, state, and local officials. That’s the only way out now because the officials enabling Trump are building authoritarian infrastructure that will outlast him.
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ICE seeks contractors for 24/7 social media surveillance targeting deportations with 30-minute turnaround on urgent cases and AI to track negative sentiment toward agency.
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