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Ari Chase-Ramos's avatar

Is this the new reality show Kriti Noem was talking about making?

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Daniel Bernard's avatar

Great writing as usual. Love the Prince reference.

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Steven Ongley's avatar

Neither Obama nor Biden needed to create violence in the streets to deport undocumented aliens. Why does the Trump administration provoke all this violence??? Are they so vastly more incompetent than Obama and Biden? Or is it their goal to have violence in the streets? Or both?

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Glennis Waterman's avatar

I'm just wondering about the charges now brought against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was finally brought back to the US from an El Salvador prison. He's now been charged with crimes, and will be fully prosecuted, they say. Here's what I'm wondering - what will a good defense attorney do with the fact that the Federal government, including officials like the SOS, the head of DHS, and the goddam POTUS have been tainting the jury pool for the last three months, making it very difficult, if not impossible, for this man to get a fair trial? Sounds like a great point to make to a judge.

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Banana Hammer's avatar

The US said he was deported by mistake. Then we said we couldn't bring him back and El Salvador said they couldn't send him back. Then voile - he's back. Only to face two mysteriously new trafficking charges and other horrendously reckless allegations by the government that they do not have the "cards" to actually charge him with. Such a sham.

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Jen of Defense (War!)'s avatar

It's your fault that you made us sneakily under cover of darkness defy your orders and ship these people to hell.

Jesus fucking christ, these are monstrous people

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cdr3's avatar

So the smarmy little chickenshit Johnson is concerned about the safety of his henchmen. I believe it is the responsibility of the federal government to protect its employees in the same way it is supposed to protect all of us, and to make it possible for everyone to transact their legitimate business out in the open, unmasked. Is there something wrong with that statement? Are these federal employees not conducting legitimate business?

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Jen of Defense (War!)'s avatar

It's not like we do not have SCADS of military bases right here in the US.

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cdr3's avatar

It's like a bunch of panicky children trying to please daddy before he beats them again. A very bad scene.

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ElderlyLoudCatWomyn's avatar

DHS is changing their recommendation to their employees from eat-shit-and-die to breathe-shit-and-die. I really hope that many DHS employees decide the stress of postings like this one are not worth what they are being paid and quit.

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ShrillKitty's avatar

WHAR DRINKIE THANGS

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CI Carlson's avatar

The U.S. constitution is a terrorist document!” Leavitt

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Trump's people are winning the incompetence marathon. If they were any stupider, they would be dead. And that could happen because being stupid does kill people.

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Jen of Defense (War!)'s avatar

In hamberder we trust

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

So ICE is experiencing what US military members could/have/are/did experience? The Real Military? OK.

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Nemo's avatar

What's the GS (General Schedule) level for a spokesghoul? Is that higher or lower than a spokesbimbo? Are they allotted the same budget for beauty products, fashion fixes and plastic surgery? Asking for a friend.

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ElderlyLoudCatWomyn's avatar

The pay scale and grades for DHS agents runs from GS9 to GS12 https://www.usajobs.gov/job/833846200 . Overseas pay is higher, but it depends on the living standards of the country. I presume that Djibouti location pay is a lot less than anywhere in Europe.

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Lillian Holsworth's avatar

ICE Agents are experiencing a serious case of the #1 rule of the 47-GIT'S Political Regime:

'Situation Normal-ALL F-ed '

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VwllssWndr's avatar

Gotta say it's actually pretty damn funny that the ICE agents are being treated no better than these supposed security risks. Sure, they can go to the restroom by themselves, but they have to accompany their prisoners there, too.

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"M"'s avatar

Collateral damage, baby

That's what high-level White racists have ALWAYS done for their working class KKKlansman brethren

ICE is the ReBranded KKK - Hawk's Podcasts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtEob7KNdd8

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LOU LOU's avatar

This is human trafficking.

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

Of course it is, but remember, it is always the same: IOKIYAR.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

‪Melanie D’Arrigo‬ ‪@darrigomelanie.bsky.social

ICE is denying people the right to due process, abducting and trafficking them to foreign countries and locking them up indefinitely in dangerous prisons.

Now they’re preparing the military to deploy on US soil and in our communities to help.

This is authoritarianism.

https://bsky.app/profile/darrigomelanie.bsky.social/post/3lqwq76ik622m

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