1/22/25
1,500 troops were dispatched to the US-Mexico border today, DHS’s most recent step in the ongoing campaign to persecute and imprison millions of immigrants. This plan has been months, if not years, in the making; Texas has stated plans for massive “detention facilities” (concentration camps); Biden and Newsom tested the waters with massive Border Patrol raids earlier this month, cynically carried out in the shadows of the apocalyptic LA wildfires; on Inauguration Day, explosive DHS plans to carry out sweeping raids in sanctuary cities were leaked to the press and have largely begun as planned; and Trump has now made previous sanctuary sites like churches and schools fair game for violent DHS operations, along with a barrage of further legal attacks that are hard to even keep up with at this point.
GeoGroup and CoreCivic—two investment firms that together own more than half of this country’s private prisons—made over $4 billion in 2017 from their detention of the 353,000 immigrants imprisoned by Trump’s first wave of ICE raids, and GeoGroup’s share price has increased more than 25% since his re-election as investors anticipate even more profit.
Alongside these attacks on immigrant families, Trump has also made clear his intention to strip the wires from all of our protections over abortion, contraceptives, and women’s healthcare as a whole by signing an executive order which sanctifies life at conception, or “fetal personhood:”
By describing a fetus as a person from conception, Trump has legitimized fetal personhood. Pro-abortion activists have long warned that fetal personhood, an ideology that calls for providing equal human rights to a fetus (even if it’s a cluster of cells), will effectively strip pregnant people of their own rights. The legal language employed by fetal personhood also effectively categorizes any person receiving an abortion at any stage as a murderer.
This sweeping action has largely gone unnoticed, however, since it was buried within that same order’s more cinematic move to recognize only two genders, effectively criminalizing transgender existence altogether.
Trump also pardoned the January 6 insurrectionists, calling their sentences for crimes including terrorism and seditious conspiracy “a grave national injustice” and giving far-right militias de facto legal protection. This move is in suspiciously close alignment with FOIA-obtained DHS files chronicling ICE’s training of civilians to conduct violent raids on immigrants—a story that broke late in 2024 and went largely unnoticed—further indicating that the gaps in manpower needed for these operations will be filled by deputized civilians.
Immigrants need shelter; they need their needs met while they can no longer safely go to work; children of immigrant families now risk being violently abducted from schools by state thugs. Women need contraceptives and access to abortion providers, especially those in the 13 states where abortion is already a criminal offense. Our trans brothers and sisters need hormones. Their access will be stripped from healthcare infrastructure altogether as this new executive order effectively legislates them out of existence. BIPOC members of these groups are most vulnerable under this nakedly ethnofascist administration.
I want to make clear that there is no standing defense against these actions anywhere in the confused infrastructure of American electoral politics. Democrats will put up the bare minimum amount of resistance and then capitulate more or less immediately (they’ve “voiced opposition” to Trump’s repeal of birthright citizenship), because that’s what they do; they will meekly challenge our transparently reactionary Supreme Court, get predictably stricken down, and then blame their voters. Democrats will happily see us all murdered before they lift a finger to help. Nobody in government is fighting for us and nobody in government will protect us.
I’m fear-mongering? I’m being too dramatic? Fuck you. Get to work.
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