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
The drop in Dutch support for the Geert Wilders anti-immigrant PVV should let centrists form a government. And Trump’s deployment of ICE is also becoming unpopular. It’s too early to declare victory over the politics of hate though https://www.reuters.com/world/dutch-far-right-loses-ground-opening-door-centrist-coalition-talks-2025-10-30/
Trump defended ICE activity in Minnesota by saying of Somalia that “their country stinks” and that Somali refugee Rep. “Ilhan Omar is garbage”. Racist language against minority US populations has fascist overtones https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/02/somalis-minnesota-trump-walz-immigration-enforcement/
The Minneapolis killing of a woman by an ICE agent has been politicised. The video evidence is disputed. What is undisputed is that the case is being handled by the FBI – so a Republican interpretation will determine the legal outcome. This puts ICE above the law https://apnews.com/live/minneapolis-ice-shooting-updates-1-8-2026
New video evidence, including a soundtrack, prove beyond doubt that JD Vance’s assertion that Renee Good was threatening the ICE agent’s life is clearly a lie. That just makes the Administration look even worse https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/minneapolis-mayor-demands-transparent-investigation-into-ice-shooting-protests-2026-01-09/
If ICE is recruiting known violent racists, that could account for their criminal behaviour. There can be no justification for these agents concealing their identities to escape justice https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/ice-trump-january-6-justice-department-dhs-jamie-raskin