Donald Trump ordered ICE officers to prioritize deportations in Democrat-run cities in a wild Truth Social rant Sunday night.

Trump issued the unprecedented, politically motivated orders just hours after millions of protesters gathered in major American cities, calling for Trump’s megalomania to be curbed.

Trump told ICE staff to “do all in their power” to detain and deport undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.

Protests in these cities—and many more Democrat-controlled districts—attracted millions of citizens on Saturday, dwarfing the crowd that attended Trump’s birthday parade in Washington, D.C.

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      ICE doesn’t have enough people to intimidate a single blue city, let alone the country. They can’t even operate in Los Angeles without the backup of a small number of National Guard and Marines and they’re doing that illegal action over the governor’s explicit objections.

      ICE are a bunch of cowards, doing safe, comfortable hits in suburbs and on people who are complying with the law. (Immigration hearings and workplaces.)

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        When I saw the pictures of the protests in multiple cities, I realized that ICE, law enforcement, and the military don’t stand a chance. They might be able to wipe out one protest, maybe even 2 or 3, but they could never get them all, and it’s likely they’d be spread so thin, they couldn’t significantly impact any of them.

        They have to be looking at the sizes of those protests, and getting worried. And they know there are plenty more at home. All they have is intimidation, the fear of violence, but now they know they are badly outnumbered, and the people know it, too.

        Crackdowns on these cities is a sign of panic, and panic is very dangerous. Stay alert, Patriots.

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      This has kind of been the plan from the begining. He’s trying to set metros to be in the position NYC was when he bought it for cheap.

      COVID blaming cities, riots flamed to get people to move out and not want to be there. It’s geo politics. Once it gets shitty enough he will just buy up property and market it to wealthy.

      That’s the game. Homies got his hustle. Mainstream or street it’s all the same evil.

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    Sure looks illegal to me. I keep hoping one of his crimes will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, but damned if this isn’t one tough camel.

    The post in question:

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      If he knows there are millions and millions of illegal aliens, why is he rounding up the legal ones?

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          It’s exactly that. If he wants to kick out all the international students and such, all he has to do is withdraw from NPT (I can actually see them doing this).

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        • “millions and millions” is total bs
        • technically they’re probably not. It looks like they have a bunch of new unqualified people and set impossible quotas.

        While I would never have sympathy for any officers knowingly complying with illegal orders, it also fits with the current administration that management is by bullying, threats, impossible demands, and no concern for correctness until a scapegoat is needed

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      Trump is a desperate pathetic wannabe despot and should be treated like the bitch he is. Tied up to a fuckin post for everyone to gawk at. ICE should be treated with the same contempt.

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      I don’t think there’s “legal” and “illegal” anymore in the US. It’s “allowed” or “not allowed” by the king+oligarch.

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      Illegal aliens is starting to sound a lot like “Jews”.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if our president went off an bankers next.

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      Preventing admission of anyone who undermines the domestic tranquility of the United States.

      Any reasonable interpretation of this means that he just gave the order to keep himself from returning.

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      The population of those cities combined is around 15 million. He wants to deport millions upon millions. Whatcha gonna do about the crumbling infrastructure and buildings that will become ghost towns and ruins. Can’t become great with manufacturing if we don’t have people to fill those jobs. Even “great” leaders used slaves he’s just making everywhere else greater by giving them back their labor force.

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        That’s why he’s trying to criminalize any ideology besides whatever his is. RFK Jr also talked about “work camps” for people with mental health issues.

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          They’ve been saying this in some form or another practically since the Industrial Revolution itself. For many of these backbreaking jobs, immigrant laborers are cheaper and more effective than automating them. UPS and FedEx use barcodes and scanners on each package to (try to) ensure that they all get to the right address, but it’s still people shoveling them into and out of the vans.

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            They’re already planning to have massive ICE camps here in the US, they just cut a $45bn contract for tons more, contracting with private prisons, camping manufacturers, and more. We’re bringing back slave labor - if they’re detained, LEGALLY they can be used for labor without pay, at gunpoint.

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      Ok courts, time to do your job, put this guy in check. This “official act” is unconstitutional and illegal, come on, do something.

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      I always find it amusing that Republicans are so stupid they can listen to Trump simultaneously say that immigrants are taking all the good paying jobs but they are also lazy welfare parasites…

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        Yes, that’s actually part of the fascist mindset. It brings to mind Umberto Eco’s 14 Common Features of Fascism, well, this one, anyway.

        1. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

        Just as Biden was a doddering old fool who kept falling asleep, he was at the same time was a sinister mastermind running the deep state and destroying America. Modern American conservatives have no difficulty holding opposing concepts like these in mind at the same time. They are immune to cognitive dissonance.

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      “Legal” doesn’t mean shit if no one enforces it.

      Alas, nothing has been enforced yet.

      Will it? Will judicial orders ever be enforced? I don’t know.

      What will it take for it to happen? Something ugly?

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    I screamed “No ICE in Wichita” for 4 hours, and Im willing to continue that stance with a bat.

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      I saw someone with the classic John f Kennedy quote “those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable” on a sign that was taped to a classic wooden bat. Probably my favor sign I’ve seen yet.

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      “Move ice! Get out the way! Get out the way ice, get out the way!”

      The “move” part hits pretty hard when you got thousands of people hitting it together. That one was my favorite.

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    He’s trying to get us mad and become violent so he can declare martial law. He wants his opposition to look more like bad guys to his fan base.

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      They’ll false-flag or just start killing people. They don’t need a reason anymore.

      This whole “don’t have violent protests because they’ll declare martial law” is a psyop preparing people for martial law and pre-loading it with the assumption that when it does happen (and it will) it will be the fault of the protesters, despite evidence to the contrary.

      Fascism 101 guys. Don’t be a sucker.

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      He doesn’t need to try shit. Trump does what ever the fuck he wants. Both Congress and the courts just go along with it because apparently our founding fathers wanted the president to have absolute power. The deployment of the national guard and the Marines to LA is unequivocally illegal, but Trump did it anyway and the government dosen’t seem to be in a hurry to remove the troops.

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      Those fucking idiots only need a pointed finger and the word “liberal” to believe something is bad.

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    We’re already expecting the spite, personal attacks … even smaller places. My town is still pissed off from the last few weeks

    • masked thugs kidnapped a guy off the street and left his kid abandoned on the sidewalk (neighbors got him home)
    • other masked thugs roughed up and arrested a city councilor exercising his right to take videos from an appropriate distance
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    I want our Brave ICE Officers to know that REAL Americans are cheering you on every day

    Oh, how subtle. If you’re not cheering ICE on, you’re not a REAL American. So you should be deported too!

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    IMO, the next “No Kings” protest should be “No Kings II” and then the next III and so on. It’s such a perfect name that we should keep it.

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      Right?? The official logo on the site is amazing as well. I want a decal of it for my car tbh. Everything about this movement is so well put together

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      Yeah, I think it took at least 4 or 5 well-named peaceful protests to stop the Nazis, so you’re right on track.

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        I hate this criticism so much. You want others to start an armed revolution that you won’t.

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          Absolutely this. Nothing more craven than asking others to kill on your behalf.

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            If you’re comparing this to the Nazis, you’d better be prepping for what happened in WWII. Except that America and Russia are going to be the Axis this time.

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            Right so you think you have the moral imperative to tell me to risk my life to change the government in a country you don’t even live in?

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              Fine, don’t. No doubt you’ve done absolutely all you can. Have a seat, relax. Someone will be along to save you, I’m sure. Probably.

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                It’s always easier to send someone else to die isn’t it?

                I’m politically involved, and plan to continue to be. I’m sorry that there’s not enough bloodshed for you

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      It also needs to stay on focus without devolving into a catch-all for every liberal agenda item. No Palestine, no LGBT+, just presidential overreach. Otherwise participation gets limited and we lose the needed numbers.

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        Every single thing you mentioned was there at that march. That’s why it was so successful, because everyone who is pissed off felt welcome.

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        yeah! just the topic at hand! you’re not allowed to feel angry about a specific way in which it has personally harmed you! only the things i care about are valid!

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          Just the opposite. This cause brought a significant amount of Republicans out to the protest line. The ones that truly believe in small government. With numbers comes attention.

          If we protest everything, then only those who agree with all of it will come out. Intersectionality only limits the audience.

          That is one of the reasons why Occupy failed -they tried to protest everything at once. Capitalism, Police overreach, Homelessness, etc.

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            just because someone waves a pride flag does not mean that they are there to protest for LGBTQ rights

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    But don’t you remember that time Biden said, “I want double, triple vaccinations in red states! They’ll pay for calling COVID ‘the flu’!” /s

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    Gonna be fun when they run outta money. Are those racist fucks gonna work without pay?