https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-ask-donald-trump-revoke-zohran-mamdani-citizenship-deport-2090891

Of course they do.

I wonder at what point will they simply start flat-out calling for political violence?

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/25/congress/megabill-senate-mutiny-00424389

Gettin’ tight.

I want this on a t-shirt.

In other news: DOG BITES MAN

«Sae Joon Park, 55, a green card holder who has lived in the U.S. since the age of seven, departed on Monday following a removal order stemming from drug possession and failure to appear in court charges from over 15 years ago.

Park attributes these past offenses to years of untreated post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which he developed after being wounded in action in Panama in 1989.

“I can’t believe that this is happening in America,” Park told NPR in an interview before his departure. “That blows me away, like a country that I fought for.”»

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/veteran-self-deports-ice-immigration-b2776037.html

Here’s Matt Yglesias again:

«The self-deportation plan, by contrast, I think does more or less work. If you tell ICE not to worry too much about criminals and not to show any leniency to even the most sympathetic cases, then I think that does maximize the odds that people will leave voluntarily.

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Democrats never want to acknowledge that precisely because most people who immigrate illegally do so for sympathetic reasons, if you want to deter people from doing it in huge numbers, you have to be mean to people whose cases are objectively sympathetic.

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And from a progressive standpoint, if the number of sympathetic migrants is low, then you can just be nice to all of the people who deserve kindness, and there’s no problem.»

https://www.slowboring.com/p/trump-rediscovers-comprehensive-immigration

This is why I said he was being semi-right (Trump rediscovers comprehensive immigration reform). I just can’t stand this chain of thought. “If we’re just as mean as we can be, it’ll work.”

No, it won’t, because then we’ll just be a nation of jerks. (Like: literally, we’ll all be going to hell. Who wants to have that exit interview with God? “Well, yeah, I did support that, but I was worried about my children!”) What’s “working” about that?

Why don’t we decide ahead of time what our criteria are and be ready to make exceptions, of which we expect relatively few? Maybe not have quotas for every part of the world we tried to colonize or had issues with between 1870 and 1930? (So-and-so many Samoans, so-and-so many Philippinos, so-and-so many Guatemalans, so-and-so many Chinese, etc.) Like… real immigration reform in spite of whatever racist fool picks up the phone and gets AN ENTIRE FRICKIN PARTY to torpedo a bipartisan bill?

C’mon, we’re a great nation (and our welcome of immigrants is part of what makes us great); we can handle this.

My fellow white brothers and sisters in Christ, you KNOW you don’t want to pick lettuce and clean hotel toilets. Otherwise, you’d be taking those jobs that immigrants are “stealing” from you.

Isn’t this the standard justification for secret police? That enough people don’t like what they’re doing that they need to protect themselves? Why do police need to be secret?

«“People are out there, taking photos of the names [ICE agents], their faces, and posting them online with death threats to their family and themselves. So, I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line and their family on the line because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is.”

ICE’s view appears to be that they have a higher duty to carry out actions that protect the public from people who have committed or have the potential to commit crimes.»

https://prospect.org/justice/2025-06-24-ice-impersonations-proliferate-agencys-undercover-tactics/

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-24/veteran-advocates-low-morale-l-a-deployment

«“They don’t want to deport their uncle or their wife or their brother-in-law,” Woolford said. “… Some of the language people have used is: ‘I joined to defend my country, and that’s really important to me — but No. 1 is family, and this is actually a threat to my family.’ ”

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Janessa Goldbeck, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and chief executive of the nonprofit Vet Voice Foundation, said that, among the former Marine Corps colleagues she has spoken to in recent weeks, “There’s been a universal expression of, ‘This is an unnecessary deployment given the operational situation.’”

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She added that the “young men and women who raised their right hand to serve their country” did “not sign up to police their own neighbors.”

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“Guardsmen across the country are on high alert, [thinking] that they could be pulled into this,” said Goldbeck, with the Vet Voice Foundation.

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Jones said her own husband, an active-duty Marine, deployed to Iraq in 2004 with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment based at Twentynine Palms — the same infantry unit now mustered in Los Angeles.

The unit was hard hit in Afghanistan in 2008, with at least 20 Marines killed and its high rate of suicide after that year’s deployment highly publicized.

Jones said she was stunned to learn the battalion — nicknamed the War Dogs — was being deployed to Los Angeles.

“I said, ‘Wait, it’s 2/7 they’re sending in? The War Dogs? Releasing them on Los Angeles?’ It was nuts for me,” Jones said. “To hear that unit affiliated with this — for my family that’s been serving for two decades, it brings up a lot.”

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On June 18, Capt. Rasheedah Bilal was activated by the California National Guard and assigned to Sacramento, where she is backfilling in an operational role for Joint Task Force Rattlesnake, a National Guard firefighting unit that is now understaffed because roughly half its members are deployed to Los Angeles.»

Why don’t you tell her to get a blog like every other crackpot?

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5438406/john-spitzberg-veteran-arrest-trump-parade

«”The best thing for me to do at this point in my life is just to basically be a body,” Spitzberg said. “Because you need numbers and if they ever say we’re doing something else again, God willing, I’ll be there.”»