Trump wants to deport anyone he doesn't like to El Salvador, under a financial agreement with its president: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-14-2025. Courts would be powerless, as he is in sole charge of foreign policy. Will the Supreme Court stop this?
The National Guard should only be used against civilians in an emergency. The LA demonstrations were largely peaceful and the California government had not asked for help. Trump was just looking for headlines again https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c628vwq9z9zo
Trump seeks “to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History” in Democrat States. He wants the headlines and he wants a confrontation so that he can clamp down on dissent https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-orders-ice-to-go-after-democrat-power-centers
Trump's demonisation of immigrants is contagious. It is empowering neo-Nazism https://www.reuters.com/investigations/american-nazis-aryan-freedom-network-is-riding-high-trump-era-2025-08-08/
Trump has now moved beyond border controls and deporting undocumented immigrants, to affirm an American identity that predated “the sexual revolution, mass immigration, the Civil Rights Act and expanded LGBTQ rights” https://www.axios.com/2025/08/24/trump-american-identity-citizenship-immigration
Trump has declared war on Chicago, evoking the film "Apocalypse Now", saying "I love the smell of deportations in the morning" and "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR" https://www.axios.com/2025/09/06/trump-chicago-department-of-war-crackdown-immigration
Trump’s ICE agents, arriving by helicopter in Chicago, “went door to door, woke up residents and used zip ties to restrain them”. Sending in the National Guard, to protect ICE, then follows: the next step on the road to martial law https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-agents-become-increasingly-aggressive-in-chicago