• TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    35 seconds ago

    Here’s a breakdown in the funding.

    Category Current Funding (2024) Proposed Funding (2025)
    Total ICE Budget $13.5 billion $170 billion
    Detention Budget $3.5 billion $45 billion
    Enforcement Operations $10 billion $29.9 billion
    Border Wall Construction N/A $46.6 billion
    State Reimbursement Grants N/A $10 billion
    Military Deployment Funding N/A $1 billion

    It includes hiring 10,000 ICE agents in the next five years.

    Source
    Source](https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-release/congress-approves-unprecedented-funding-mass-detention-deportation-2025/)

  • nucleative@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    9 hours ago

    Open ze door, zis is de gestapo!

    As an American this makes me weep. We saw this coming from miles away yet here we are.

    Those who study world history know damn well that history repeats itself and this “timeline” is a well worn one. We already know where this goes.

    I don’t know what to think about those who voted for this consciously and even worse those in power who continue to enable this. I hope these people get the outcome they deserve.

    For those who voted for this without understanding, let’s hope the next government can find a way to better educate you, as this one has let you down.

    We’ll only get the democracy that we can manage to keep.

    • 0x0@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      53 minutes ago

      We’ll only get the democracy that we can manage to keep.

      Sorry, but I think you’re past that — you’ll need to take it back by force.

    • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      edit-2
      5 hours ago

      let’s hope the next government can find a way to better educate you, as this one has let you down.

      If you are talking about the education system then yes.

      But let’s not gloss over the fact that you can’t rely on the government to teach you why what the government is doing is wrong. That is the job of the opposition party. It is the job of political parties to explain why their policies are better.

      It’s the Democrats who has failed you first and foremost. Then the media. Then the education system.

      And honestly, even above the Democrats, it is the two party system that robbed you of choices. In any functional democracy, the Democrats wouldn’t survive as they are now. They would either have to improve or be replaced.

    • vivalapivo@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      8 hours ago

      I don’t know what to think about those who voted for this

      Compassion. They voted for this out of despair

  • stickly@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    11 hours ago

    It’s very strange timing to do this at a huge scale as the US economy is teetering and the dollar is spiraling. Bread and circuses is the playbook for a reason, their tax bill is going to hit like a brick wall for a lot of Americans. And instead of your pop-pop getting his Medicare check you’re now seeing that spent on concentration camps in your back yard.

    There’s a limit to fear mongering and strong arming when it pushes against economic reality. No amount of crackdowns will help when bread costs $20/loaf, international money stops coming in, and the job market crashes all in less than a few years. It’s one thing to manufacture a crisis but they might be burning the Reichstag a little too hot.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      edit-2
      8 hours ago

      The cuts don’t come through until after the '26 elections. Fucking Republican cunts will point their short little pudgy fingers at Dems and say,“What did you do?” and idiot fucking voters (or even more idiot single issue non-voters) will grab it like a trout going after a fly.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    10 hours ago

    It’s the same as resisting early nazi germany, except now there are cameras and AI’s preventing subtle sabotage. And if you tell anyone about it, the whole militarized apparatus crashes down on you.

  • Wren@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    26
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    12 hours ago

    We were told this was going to happen by those that are making it happen. And still 91 million people chose not to vote. Of those 91 million people- was enough make the difference between keeping out democracy, and….

    This.

    I hope the smug arrogance of your little protest of the trade-agreement support of weapons to a country committing genocide is going to be enough to keep you properly blinded to the suffering of so many others as a result of your stubborn refusal to see the bigger picture-

    This is your fucking fault.

    • Zink@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 hours ago

      Staying home on election day was a bad idea, sure.

      But what about the dozens of millions of fucknuts who got off their ass to go vote FOR this?

    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      11 hours ago

      Any evidence that it was actually progressives staying home out of a protest vote that cost Kamala the election? This seems like wishful thinking on the part of liberals. The polling I’ve seen and the progressives I know all held their nose and voted for Kamala. Kamala lost because she couldn’t convince enough low-engagement voters to come to the polls. They didn’t vote not because of genocide, but because they didn’t feel Kamala was going do anything to improve their lives. Biden won by adopting a lot of Bernie’s social welfare programs, and Kamala walked away from most of that. Obviously the concerns for democracy was real, but people value democracy a hell of a lot less than you might think. People have lost faith in democracy from cycle after cycle of their votes not mattering. They can either vote for a Republican that will help the rich or a Democrat that will help the rich a bit less.

      Remember, the US doesn’t actually have any kind of meaningful mass democracy, and it never has. It is only the opinions of the top 5-10% wealthiest of the people that have any influence at all on actual policies that are passed. The poorest 90% of US citizens have never lived in a democracy. That’s why running on preserving democracy failed. Only the upper middle class and rich get democracy, so the working class saw no reason to fight for it.

  • Etterra@discuss.online
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    11 hours ago

    Yeah we live in the Fascist States of America. They’re just fully mask-off racist now.

  • Ileftreddit@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    11 hours ago

    The only response to ice is targeted, coordinated civil (?) resistance. Wherever they show up, show up with more people and guns than ice has

      • golden_zealot@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        edit-2
        10 hours ago

        The US failed to succeed against ~100,000 Taliban in a country they could bomb and burn freely.

        It cost the US 2 Trillion dollars for the war including expenses for hardware such as the 362,484 bombs they dropped.

        The population of the US is ~347 Million.

        If even 0.1% of the population actually decided to do something and made a coordinated effort, the US would be up against three times as many people and wouldn’t be able to bomb them nearly as easily.

        The US also really, really does not want anything like this happening in their borders, because it would interfere majorly with cash flow from it’s citizens to itself as well as it’s businesses it’s in bed with. It also can’t kill a lot of it’s own people, because again, the money would go away. This means the more people that would oppose them, the less they could kill or capture without destroying themselves.

        For this reason I think it’s probably more viable than most people suspect.

        The only real problem is that it’s only flesh and blood that affirm freedoms gain, and people generally either feel well off enough that they don’t want to do anything, or are simply too afraid to do anything.

        In any event, no one ever wants to be the first one to act. They usually wait on someone else to first.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    14 hours ago

    ICE is being set up to lead the theft of the midterms. I don’t mean by just trying to prevent non-white people from voting either, but as the extrajudicial gestapo it is. Americans won’t have to be non-white to worry about having their citizenship suspended soon enough.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    49
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    16 hours ago

    Operation Reduce Non-White Vote underway. They clearly rigged the Presidential election results. The results were statistically normal everywhere except in the 7 swing states, where Trump won even though Democrats won the rest of the way down the ballot, and he won by margins that were just shy of what would trigger automatic audits. These anomalies were in the swing states only.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      16
      ·
      12 hours ago

      Man, democrats really are just the Republicans of a few election cycles ago, which now includes Qanon style conspiracy theories

      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        11 hours ago

        The Republican conspiracy claims were completely baseless, and were proven so. They filed dozens of lawsuits and lost every single one. This election has stark statistical anomalies worth investigating.

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          9 hours ago

          Lol, let me know when you file a successful lawsuit for your conspiracies then. Somehow I’m betting failing to do so won’t dissuade you.

    • nieminen@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 hour ago

      Previously the other branches of government have actually stepped in to do their job. Clinton got impeached just for lying about an affair. This time around, all the branches have been bought and paid for, and prefilled with sycophants who are complicit.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    16 hours ago

    Stalin funded his NKVD and Hitler had his RSHA (Gestapo). AOC is correct, Putin’s Sock Puppet is using ICE like his secret police force.

  • Chris@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    57
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    19 hours ago

    Death Camps.

    We are so far along the nazi playbook we just need to invade Poland I guess.

    • plyth@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      19 hours ago

      Not before the Olympics. But you can already start killing the disabled. Also look out for the new ICE guys to kill the old ones.

      • Chris@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        20
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        18 hours ago

        People are already dying in ICE detention. How many for we need to call them death camps?

        • Flipper@feddit.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          11
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          16 hours ago

          M guessing this is a comparison to the holocaust. Comparing the Ice camps to the holocaust is reducing the holocaust massively, where the word death camp is usually used. During the peak 15000 People were murdered every single day. For 3 Months straight.

          The death toll in Auschwitz alone would have been enough to completely depopulate San José, the 10. biggest city in the USA and then some more. The sheer size is nearly incomprehensible.

          Yeah the direction is there, but be thankful there is still a long way to go. There is still time to stop it.

      • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        16 hours ago

        Correct, the fucker Hitler show cased Nazi Germany during the 1936 Olympics and the reviews were overwhelmingly positive from the visitors.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    17 hours ago

    oh man chuck schumer’s gonna write a letter so sternly worded their heads will spin

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    18 hours ago

    If you guys get another left leaning president be better be a socialist dictator. If this is the game now, play it. Next guy better abolish ice