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"While the Congressional Budget Office estimates this mass deportation will cost at least $88 billion a year, another cost that is rarely mentioned is that according to Bloomberg, undocumented immigrants currently pay about $100 billion a year in taxes. Losing that income, too, will likely have to be made up with cuts from elsewhere."

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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"Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants."

~ Jem Bartholomew

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/fi

What is being planned:

"[To] ederalize state national guard personnel and deploy them for immigration enforcement, including sending troops from friendly Republican-governed states into neighboring states with governors who decline to participate."

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"Using the military domestically — absent any crisis remotely needed to prompt or justify such a move — would break with centuries of practice in the United States, giving a President who has promised to deploy troops against the 'enemy from within' the most powerful, and potentially unconstrained, tool in the federal arsenal."

~ Josh Kovensky

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-reminds-everyone-he-wants-us-soldiers-in-us-streets

"Under Trump's plan, immigrants awaiting resolution of their cases would remain in hastily constructed 'vast holding facilities for years'.”

~ Robert B. Hubbell

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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-must-build-our-own-media-ecosystem

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AKA concentration camps