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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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[–] BioDriver@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago

Literally gestapo

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

Hey DOGE! I found the waste, fraud, and corruption. ICE.

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.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 0 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

we know ICE are less than 8k. As that’s all who attended the military parade if you’re not counting the geriatric and children who were dragged along to it

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 83 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

‘No Kings’ protest cities

So ... like all the cities?

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Shouldn't he be focused on the G7?

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Trump already left G7 to supposedly "focus on the escalating Israeli-Iran conflict."

That's not the reason why he left. He's leaving early because he tried to hijack the G7 conference with his usual, personal grievance bullshit and to make the entire conference all about HIM, like he always does. But they weren't having it and they told him to go home and get his f*cking shine box. So now, he's leaving in a huff because they hurt his childish, rodentine feelings.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

"Rodentine". I like that word and I'll be adding it to my repertoire. Thanks!

Stop payment of federal taxes

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 112 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 33 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 hours ago

I'm willing to continue it with other weaponry.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 29 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 60 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Weren't the protests in pretty much every city in the country?

[–] DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 2 points 28 minutes ago

About 2100 locations, per Indivisible. So yeah, ICE gonna be spread thin, I guess.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 45 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

The best I saw reporting in was a town of 800 in deep red Trump country with a turnout of 400. Wish I could remember the town. Faiy certain it was a rey on Lemmy but may have been bluesky.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 41 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

175 people showed up in Pulaski, TN. I live about an hour from there. That's where the KKK was founded. Deep as red gets (At least in my experience)

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

That's a solid 2% of the town

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

No one in OK is tearing down my “Defund ICE” signs.

[–] match@pawb.social 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Are they literate enough to tell "Defund" from "Defend"?

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 9 points 8 hours ago

Defundly not.

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[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 23 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 hours ago

Money printer go brrrr

...naw, they'll just use looting as payment, arrest people to deport and keep their stuff

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

theyre very passionate about their work

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 57 points 15 hours ago

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
[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 24 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Please. Send them here. In clearly labeled vehicles. With nice uniforms that have large letters.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 24 points 13 hours ago

We'd like to see their faces too.

Otherwise how we supposed to know they're not reich-wing political assassins or cartel gang members in disguise? They could fake their ID and warrants as well, better just capture them and work it all out in court, in front of a judge. Which is better than they're offering, or deserve

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago

All 2200+ of them huh?

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 200 points 19 hours ago (23 children)

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:

[–] MrSmith@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Radical Democrats is awfully close to illegal Democrats.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 148 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

He's a racist piece of shit

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 102 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Ding! Ding! Ding!

This is why I am having a hard time feeling bad for Trump supporters who just found out that Trump wants them out too despite them being legal residents. There were never enough undocumented immigrants to meet the deportation numbers he wants. He was always planning on cancelling work and student visas and anything else to kick brown people out of the country.

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

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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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago

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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[–] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

And when there are no more illegal immigrants, guess who is going to have to fill in for their jobs and pay level.

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[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 76 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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!

[–] YerLam@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Trump wants a whole country of people who cheer him and whatever he says.

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