SCAPEGOATING IMMIGRANTS
THE GESTAPO IS ON THE MOVE
It is becoming clearer to the average American why immigrants are becoming the cannon fodder of this failing Trump regime. President Trump is proving what anyone who cared to look knew about him as a private businessman, he’s a meanspirited and incompetent leader. He is dangerously clueless about foreign affairs; he remains arrogantly ill informed as to the purpose of tariffs and economics; he is enamored with ruthless money-obsessed kingpins; and, because of his own ineptitude he surrounds himself with highly unqualified advisors who practice survival-groveling.
Captured within this worldview, immigrants are a vulnerable group of people with relatively few advocates and are easily shown to be unlike “us.” Heck, most of them are “colored.” They can be scapegoated for much of what is not right, and they can be manhandled with impunity, giving ICE’s goons a sense of power. Bottom line, as America sinks into international disfavor and economic mismanagement, Trump’s icy gestapo can make his lazy followers feel good that at least we are getting rid of those immigrants who are the cause of our problems.
Not to worry MAGA-minions; there’s this One Big Beautiful Bill making its heartless way through our cringeworthy Congress. Its goal is to institutionalize greed by the wealthy into our tax code, and to the point, it would add another 72 billion dollars onto our debt so we can round up and punish those undocumented laborers who do the shit work any self-respecting-red-blooded American won’t do. Remember those empty shelves during COVID? Buckle up buttercup!
Jay Kuo, author of the Substack blog, The Status Kuo (which I highly recommend), lays it out this way.
“To understand this threat, we need to look carefully within the pages of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” budget. That bill contains a funding increase for ICE of $27 billion dollars, or 10,000 more ICE officers. Trump is planning to use these billions to recruit an army of masked, armed and largely unaccountable agents. This is a break-the-glass moment for our democracy, hiding within the line items of a single, massive bill.
But the bill doesn’t just add more agents. It also earmarks an eye-popping $45 billion for new ICE detention centers—enough to house 125,000 people.
It’s hard to look at that number and realize that it represents the same number of people of Japanese descent who were put inside of 10 internment camps during World War II.
Students of fascism also understand that, once such centers are built, they won’t just be used to house undocumented migrants subject to mass deportation. The regime, now caught in a horrific dance with private contractors like Erik Prince who will build and profit from these centers, will come to view them as convenient places to house and then disappear its political opponents, perhaps on their way to one of the many gulags it is now contracting with third countries to establish.
ICE is currently out of money and is struggling to operate. It hopes to gain not just a lifeline but virtually unlimited resources following passage of Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill. Defeating the bill and stripping it of this ICE funding must become a priority for Democratic lawmakers and the public at large. Otherwise, as we’ve seen with our democracy in general, as soon as the billions start to flow in, it will become far harder to root out the rot and restore the rule of law.”
What continues to baffle me is just how long does this congressional Republican caucus think that an increasingly aware and angry public is going to put up with them and their subservience to this Trump-imposed scapegoating? Are they really that convinced that the American tax-paying public is that flaming ghoulish and stupid? Can they be that politically tone def? Because if they don’t wake up and smell themselves real soon, the landslide that will bury them is scheduled for November 3, 2026.
