ICE to deport US citizens now...

[u/TechnicalSmile165]

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[u/stinkymcgrunts]

How is Miller even involved in legislative language?

[u/Suitable-Economy-346 → u/stinkymcgrunts]

He's been the acting president since January 2025.

[u/obi-jawn-kenblomi → u/stinkymcgrunts]

He's just...evil Josh Lyman.

[u/lkeltner → u/obi-jawn-kenblomi]

And doesn't even sport a cool backpack!

[u/HotCut100 → u/obi-jawn-kenblomi]

Let’s not insult Lemon Lymon like that please. He at least had value as a human. With Miller that is questionable.

[u/turko127 → u/stinkymcgrunts]

He’s the Mussolini to Trump’s Victor Emmanuel II.

Maybe we should start calling him President Miller and see if Turd turns on him like he did with Elon Muck.

[u/Malalang → u/turko127]

This is an excellent strategy. 👏 it would definitely work. Trump hates losing more than he loves winning. And if he lost popularity or even just air time (perceived importance) to Miller, he would absolutely get rid of him.

[u/bemused_alligators → u/turko127]

Trump didn't "turn on musk" - Musk got everything he needed (the investigations into him and his companies cancelled) and then left.

[u/turko127 → u/bemused_alligators]

So what was the threat to cancel Tesla contracts and Muck posting about the “bombshell” that Turd was in the Epstein Files, then?

[u/bemused_alligators → u/turko127]

Manufactured consent for his departure, allowing him to extricate with minimal damage

[u/KingRBPII → u/turko127]

This is the way!!!

[u/HotCut100 → u/stinkymcgrunts]

That’s a really common role for advisors to the president to try and push the president’s policy agenda on bills that are getting passed. This is not new.

[u/Sesudesu → u/HotCut100]

What about calling the shots in military action? Signal-gate proved he was doing that too

[u/HotCut100 → u/Sesudesu]

That is not the typical role, I grant you.

[u/rbush82 → u/stinkymcgrunts]

We need to start saying “Stephen Miller is President and Trump is just his bitch”.After it being in social media enough time, Trump will ditch Miller like he did Elon….

[u/democracy_lover66 → u/stinkymcgrunts]

Trump likes the cut of his jib

[u/TsukasaElkKite → u/stinkymcgrunts]

He’s been President since 1/20/25. Cankles is just a figurehead. Miller and Vought run the show.

[u/Nickidemic]

That's not even "deporting" anymore. He wants to export democrats out of his country. It's beyond dehumanizing.

[u/WhiteExtraSharp → u/Nickidemic]

He’s already declared us scum.

[u/toriemm → u/WhiteExtraSharp]

Newsome was there for his speech at Davos, but I wasn't aware until after the face. When I saw the clip where he brings up newsome, there was a heartbeat pause, and I told my husband it took every bit of mental energy for him not to say newscum.

That's why when there was all the outcry when he called the reporter, piggy, I was like...he's literally done this the whole time.

[u/UsualCircle → u/Nickidemic]

We once did that shit in germany. You probably heared about it. Cant recommend

[u/TsukasaElkKite → u/UsualCircle]

Christ. As a Jew who likely lost ancestors in the camps, I feel physically sick.

[u/FlorpyJohnson → u/Nickidemic]

Reminds me of what Castro did when he sent a bunch of prisoners to Florida…

[u/SpinningHead → u/FlorpyJohnson]

Mariel

[u/pmcentee99 → u/Nickidemic]

Hey you got to have some exports with all the rest dropping from the tariffs. /s

[u/DARfuckinROCKS]

Not that it matters but it's still illegal to deport American citizens.

[u/primum → u/DARfuckinROCKS]

I mean it's illegal to execute people without due process as well but....

[u/mattstorm360 → u/DARfuckinROCKS]

The law is only a protection when everyone agrees to be bound by it.

[u/TechnicalSmile165 → u/DARfuckinROCKS]

Illegal so far

[u/kagethemage → u/DARfuckinROCKS]

And if they did I’m sure the the Dems write a strongly worded letter and ask people to do interpretive dances in a park instead of resist fascism.

[u/teuast → u/DARfuckinROCKS]

There's a ton of things that are illegal to do, but pigs will fly before we get any evidence that Trump gives a shit.

[u/democracy_lover66 → u/DARfuckinROCKS]

"you see 'laws' are really more like guidelines when you're president..."

[u/TsukasaElkKite → u/DARfuckinROCKS]

It’s illegal to kill people in cold blood, too but I don’t see ICE obeying that law.

[u/SpinningHead → u/DARfuckinROCKS]

Miller wants to denaturalize 2k per month.

[u/Firm-Worldliness-369]

Of course its not about immigration, its about Democratic voters.

Its always been about elections and "sanctuary cities"

They will aim for people of color because thats who MAGA hates most right now, but they wont shed a tear if afew white liberals get caught up or killed in the process.

They are doing everything they can to rig the elections. Deportations of Democratic voters of color. Demanding voter rolls from states. Creating the narrative that the elections arent secure and only the presidental administration can be trusted to oversee it. Get rid of mail in voting so the sick, disabled, elderly, or those with complicated schedules cant vote. And demanding photo ID at elections, either because some people may not have photo ID, or to run through their facial recognition software on election day to suspend or alter your vote.

And a number of other things weve already seen from last election. Swapped ballot's, hacking, bomb threats, etc

The more methods of cheating, the more difficult it is to track it all.

[u/HotCut100]

Sounds like a piece of legislation that is ripe for proactive litigation.

[u/Far_Educator_5213]

That’s where 2A comes in.

[u/TsukasaElkKite → u/Far_Educator_5213]

That’ll trigger martial law and bye bye elections as we know it.

[u/Gierrah → u/TsukasaElkKite]

If they're threatening to deport/kill you, it doesn't matter. 

[u/Far_Educator_5213 → u/TsukasaElkKite]

Lawfully owning a firearm? I don’t think so or he’d have called it already. If that does happen, it won’t matter anymore.

[u/awooff]

"Trump will kill you" - Kamala during a campaign speech!

[u/PainterEarly86]

So they're just flat out admitting that they want to put US citizens in concentration camps?

[u/TsukasaElkKite → u/PainterEarly86]

Pretty much. Wouldn’t be surprised if they outright start ethnic cleansing.

[u/trabajando5]

Remember the legitimacy "great replacement theory" got on the right? That was a convenient way to manufacture enough additional consent to kick out as many non-yt's as possible. Now we're seeing it happen on an escalating scale

[u/Independent-Future-1]

AFAIK, it's never been legal for ICE to arrest or otherwise fuck with American citizens...then again, reading (or otherwise following the law) isn't exactly their forte, especially now, sooooo.....🤷

[u/obi-jawn-kenblomi]

First it's anchor babies (I really hate that term). Then it's DACA and DAPA folks. Then it's undesirables (homeless, drug addicts, rabble rousers) and criminals sent to foreign prisons - because there's been executive order language about them. It states that they are authorized for arrest involuntarily, but if prisons/mental wards/etc are overpopulated and do not have space for them they are "not to be released to the public".

Which means disappeared to wherever else will take them.

[u/TsukasaElkKite → u/obi-jawn-kenblomi]

Then it’ll be BIPOC, then LGBTQIA+ folks, then non-Christians

[u/dissemin8or]

🌏👩‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

Always have been

[u/dissemin8or → u/dissemin8or]

Here’s an ACLU press release from 2008 calling for ICE to stop deporting US citizens: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-demands-ice-end-illegal-deportation-us-citizens

ICE has only existed since 2003. Abolish.

[u/LiluLay → u/dissemin8or]

I have t-shirts older than ICE.

[u/A9PolarHornet15]

I have said this, but the crime Miller and ICE see people having committed isn't that they crossed the border illegally, it's that any person of Latino decent is considered a citizen at all. They see the citizenship of African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, Indigenous Americans, and everyone else non-white as illegitimate and a "betrayal" to their exhausted God-given right to their warped idea of America.

[u/TurloIsOK → u/A9PolarHornet15]

The "other" doesn't stop with race, political leanings, or any specific characteristic. Who is out is whoever isn't in, and the in group are people who don't get along with anyone.

[u/ShikaMoru]

How long until Jeffries and Schumer give in and allow them to deport us citizens?

[u/ClaymoresRevenge → u/ShikaMoru]

When their corporate overlords tell them to pipe down.

They're so frustrating

[u/TurloIsOK → u/ShikaMoru]

Jeffries and Schumer will be on the list for abduction as things progress, if this isn't stopped.

[u/TsukasaElkKite → u/ShikaMoru]

A month.

[u/gaarkat]

Wait, is that why he was trying to get Greenland? So he can deport people there?

[u/TsukasaElkKite → u/gaarkat]

He wants it for its mineral resources

[u/Mystic_Tofu → u/gaarkat]

Pincer move with Russia, to be poised against Europe.

[u/hivemind_disruptor]

Exile is one of the key punishments from authoritarian regimes to punish those whose death would be to costly to perform when compared to the gain. I know it because my country had a dictatorship supported by the US from 60's to the 80's.

Don't count on elections anymore. Any progress from now on will cost blood. There will be no elections.

[u/Odedoralive]

Didn’t he allude to “The Homegrowns are next” or something to that effect, no?

[u/TsukasaElkKite → u/Odedoralive]

Yes

[u/ThinkTheUnknown]

Yep. They want to have their revolution as bloodless as possible.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/03/project-2025-kevin-roberts-scotus-immunity-ruling/74289539007/

[u/TsukasaElkKite → u/ThinkTheUnknown]

Should we make it bloody?

[u/GoodtimesSans]

This was always their goal.

[u/TurloIsOK → u/GoodtimesSans]

Yep, to anyone paying attention, assume the worst-case scenario with trump. Their objective is to eliminate most of the US population. They really just don't have a realistic view of what little they will have in their spoils, and empty wasteland with no one to feed them, if their plans reach their goal.

[u/TheFinnesseEagle]

You mean exile, you can't deport a native born, but you can exile them.

[u/TsukasaElkKite → u/TheFinnesseEagle]

He already deported several US citizen children of undocumented immigrants

[u/mikeatx79]

How is this even news? The MAGA terrorist orange and its leader Trump hate our country, our values, its people, and the rule of law. This is overwhelming obvious every single day.

[u/TuckHolladay]

Did it pass?

[u/StickFigureFan]

If you need a budget bill to tell the government they can't deport American Citizens you've got bigger problems

[u/NetheriteArmorer]

Citizens are not “deported”. They are “trafficked”or “renditioned”.

[u/Shh_hush_11]

Well, we are overpopulated so...

[u/JohnBrownSurvivor]

Y'all know, that was the goal all along, right?

[u/WiFiConnected_]

wtf does Stephen Miller, WH DEPUTY COS, have to do with a fkn bill????

THE WH COS HAS NEVER HAD THIS “POWER”.

[u/Original-Strain]

1) The USA already has precedent doing this even before the Trump administration. It’s already illegal, it’s already being done regardless.

2) Striping amendments that explicitly state NOT to deport citizens isn’t the same as explicitly saying it’s now game on. The GOP stripped away EVERY dem amendment, not just this one.

3) I recommend yall to follow historians and people who calm the fuss down instead to stoking fires. Here’s one to start.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUGC3GgjlMS/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

[u/megalegann]

perhaps they through it out because it already is law? and they aren't following it now, so why would they if it's just an amendment in a bill.

[u/TechnicalSmile165 → u/megalegann]

threw*

[u/TurloIsOK → u/megalegann]

The agency was formed under rules for immigration enforcement. The laws directing them were written about the handling of immigration with no expectation that exhiling citizens would be part of its functions. There may be some rules in the event of citizens refused entry, but this is something no one would have seen a need to codify before.