There’s bipartisan support for ICE & the post-9/11 security state that created it. Once the government gains power, it doesn’t let go. That’s why today’s abuses—deportations for political speech, anti-BDS laws, attacks on immigrant rights—must be challenged now. Power unchallenged becomes permanent. - ThreadSky

libyaliberty.bsky.social • 14 days ago

There’s bipartisan support for ICE & the post-9/11 security state that created it. Once the government gains power, it doesn’t let go. That’s why today’s abuses—deportations for political speech, anti-BDS laws, attacks on immigrant rights—must be challenged now. Power unchallenged becomes permanent.

Reposted from Robert Meintzer

Long past time to abolish ICE. Dems should have done it long ago.

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amy4opus.bsky.social•14 days ago

Exactly. Next dem in power will keep 90% of this crap if we allow it.

libyaliberty.bsky.social•14 days ago

I mean, where was the anti ICE pushback from democrats under Biden?

self.agency•14 days ago

he was deporting more people than trump and separating families and liberals went out of their way not to notice

self.agency•14 days ago

also worth noting who originally appointed tom homan to lead deportations at i.c.e.

scumbagnobody.bsky.social•14 days ago

Exactly.

Something else that sticks in my craw is that Biden didn't do anything about DeJoy.

Dejoy is dismantling the one thing that actually works decently in our government in favor of privatizing the mail.

Why didn't that communist Biden, as per trump, do something about that?

self.agency•14 days ago

he actually just resigned because he doesn’t want to be the face of dismantling the post office

scumbagnobody.bsky.social•14 days ago

I dunno. Kinda scary that he resigned now.

I bet he is going to go back into a sweet job in some sort of postal company.😑

ianmnoone.bsky.social•14 days ago

But genocide, concentration camps, and police brutality are fine so long as it's done with an avuncular smile and only affects "those people". Now that "normal" Americans are being materially affected, it's a problem

jasonpaul.bsky.social•14 days ago

It was hanging out with the anti war Left that disappeared under Obama then never came back.

mister-sterling.bsky.social•14 days ago

Precisely. And this was barely mentioned during Obama's 8 years.

catdadmike.bsky.social•14 days ago

Dems were all "no more kids in cages, mommy!"

chaensaw.com•14 days ago

I remember Obama calling ICE necessary. He didn't give a shit about anything other than the pomp and circumstance of being president.

libyaliberty.bsky.social•14 days ago

It’s not even that I think he didn’t care - it’s that the role of president doesn’t actually allow you to veer off the path without costing you major political capital in the halls of power. He made a choice to save his career.

chaensaw.com•14 days ago

LBJ proved that you could use your political capital without exhausting it. Obama compromised on everything. He didn't have a single principle he'd stand by.

scumbagnobody.bsky.social•14 days ago

it was only the legitimate left....and the democrats never listen to anyone left of Bill Clinton, a blue face republican.

They know that their friends that hire these migrants to skirt labor laws and pay less wages are going to let them get their beaks wet with donations and sinecure jobs.

hirsutable.bsky.social•14 days ago

Everyone was distracted by not protesting the kids that were still in cages and not talking about the still rampant pandemic.

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