IS THIS REALLY THE GOP VISION FOR AMERICA?

Word for the day: Remigration: a term from the global far right, whose proponents call for the “mass expulsion of non–ethnically European immigrants and their descendants, regardless of immigration status or citizenship, and an end to multiculturalism.” To that end… The State Dept. has notified Congress that it intends to use the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor to promote “Democracy and Western Values.” A senior advisor for that bureau, Samuel Samson, who graduated from college in 2021, explained that the State Depart. intends to ally with the European far right to protect “Western civilization” from current democratic governments. It also plans to turn the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, which manages the flow of people into the US, into an “Office of Remigration” to “actively facilitate” the “voluntary return of migrants” to other countries and “advance the president’s immigration agenda.” An 3000 per day arrest quota for deportation is leading to multiple civil rights violations. Hundreds of FBI agents have been taken off terror threats and espionage cases involving China and Russia to be reassigned to immigration duties. Officers from other agencies, including ATF have also been deployed against immigrants in place of their regular duties. Local law enforcement and state troopers have been diverted to immigration, using a national network of cameras that read license plates. ProPublica reported that the Trump administration’s own data shows that officials knew that “the vast majority” of the 238 Venezuelans it sent to CECOT had not been convicted of crimes in the US, even as it deported them and called them “rapists,” “savages,” “monsters,” and “the worst of the worst.” ICE is meeting quotas by arresting immigrants outside of immigration check-ins and courtrooms. Five immigrants, including three children, were detained outside of an immigration court in San Antonio after a judge had said they were no longer subject to removal proceedings. The officers used zip ties on all of them. We’re watching the daily purge of foreign scholars and lawful residents. SCOTUS just allowed the end of immigration paroles for about 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, instantly making them undocumented and subject to deportation. The court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, “allows the Government to do what it wants to do regardless [of the consequences], rendering constraints of law irrelevant and unleashing devastation in the process.” Per a person who works closely with the State Dept.: “All of it is pretty awful with some pieces that definitely violate existing law and treaties. But institutionalizing neo-Nazi theory as an office in the State Department is the most blatantly horrifying.” Is any of this horrifying to you? Is this the America you want to work for? America is being turned into something monstrous.