National guard shooting prompts extraordinary outburst and targeting of people from startling range of countries

Stephen Miller, the powerful White House deputy chief of staff and architect of the president’s immigration crackdown, implied in a social media post that the true goal was ending immigration from what Trump once labelled “shithole countries” and rebutted criticism that it amounted to “collective punishment” for the crime of a single person.

“This is the great lie of mass migration,” he wrote. “You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”

Coming after months of mass arrests carried out by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents, it seemed to foretell a fearful intensification of actions against US citizens and legal residents with origins in a startling range of foreign countries.

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    7 days ago

    If you are “startled” by Cheeto attacking black & brown people you really haven’t been paying attention

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      Yep. Immigrants are the backbone of the economy. Trump isn’t just attacking them. He’s attacking everyone. Just too many people are too blinded to see.

      We should welcome the immigrants with open arms and give them more equity. Not scapegoating them and attacking citizens.