Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Trump on Tuesday threatened to strip U.S. citizens of their nationality and then deport them if they commit certain crimes ― including some who were born in the United States.
“They’re not new to our country. They’re old to our country. Many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, if you want to know the truth,” he said during a visit to a new migrant detention facility. “So maybe that will be the next job that we’ll work on together.”
The comments echo what Trump said in April when speaking of deportations to El Salvador.
“The homegrowns are next,” Trump said during a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
— Authoritarianism Expert Reveals 'Chilling' Phrase Trump Used During New Threat: Ruth Ben-Ghiat called out the president for threatening to deport U.S. citizens. Ed Mazza, HuffPost, Jul 1, 2025
BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.
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— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Normal has been given too wide a berth, one I try to narrow when I discuss history or current events. Normal is often a cover story for wrong. Slavery was normal. Genocide was normal. “White-collar crime”, “collateral damage”, “ethnic cleansing”: normal. Euphemized, euthanized, eulogized.
The concentration camp the Trump administration built in Florida is being marketed as normal. It has a cheeky name and merchandise. Right now, it disgusts many Americans. As concentration camps become more common, they will offend fewer people — and they will be called normal. When this happens, you must remember that normal is not the same as right, no more than law is the same as justice.
— Sarah Kendzior, Guns or Fireworks: America is not its government and normal does not mean right. Jul 07, 2025
Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law.
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— Adam Isacson (@adamisacson.com) July 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The Trump regime's
"immigration policies are deeply unpopular and unlikely to improve as Americans learn more about them. Today a report by Hatzel Vela of NBC South Florida went national as a former corrections officer for a private contractor who worked at the detention center in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by supporters, said the detainees “have no sunlight. There’s no clock in there. They don’t even know what time of the day it is. They have no access to showers. They shower every other day or every four days…. The bathrooms are backed up because you got so many people using them.”
Florida is running the Everglades detention facility in expectation of reimbursement by the federal government. Immigration advocate Aaron Reichlin-Melnick pointed out that, unlike the federal government, the state of Florida “can be sued for civil rights violations and punished with monetary damages.”" (Heather Cox Richardson, August 6, 2025)
In July 2025, over 1,800 men were detained at the Florida concentration camp. By the end of August, the Miami Herald couldn't determine where two-thirds of them were. Were it a federally run camp, this would normally be easy to verify. But it's run by Florida, and Florida has not set up a system to make it public knowledge who's in the camp. Were they sent to another country? Released in the US? send to another facility? Still in the Florida camp?
The Miccosukee tribe is suing over the concentration camp: ABC, El Pais
Denny Carter says (Sept 25, 2025):
"It is, I think, a simulation of an occupation. It’s what the president and his terminally online lackeys image an occupation to be. Having never read a book and having no understanding of history and no real concept of the 20th century fascist movements they so adore, these folks are playacting fascism, sometimes to great effect – kidnapping immigrants and U.S. citizens off the streets – and sometimes in ineffective and silly ways. Listen to the vampiric Stephen Miller blather on like he’s Dwight Schrute speaking to a Dunder Mifflin conference, trying his best to be frightening and authoritative, and try not to laugh.
Miller, like Trump and JD Vance and Kristi Noem and Brendan Carr and Pete Hegseth, is doing a bit. He’s simulating what he thinks a tyrant should sound like, what they sound like in documentaries. It’s not the real thing, as New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie recently said, but a simulacrum of an authoritarian state generated so that, maybe, one day, these people can “make the simulacrum a real thing.”"
Alligator Alcatraz Is A New Kind Of Immigration Jail — And It’s Multiplying: A wave of new immigration jails is drawing widespread criticism for terrible conditions and restricted access to legal resources. Matt Shuham, HuffPost, Sep 27, 2025
I wrote this: I Saw Jurassic World and All I Could Think About Were the Alligators (4-min read, July 8, 2025)
