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Towlie

(5,501 posts)
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:08 PM Saturday

It appears that Trump is turning I.C.E. into his personal version of The Gestapo

I suspect that Trump is remaking I.C.E. into a force superior to all other law enforcement and loyal only to him, similar to Hitler's Gestapo.

MSNBC: Newark mayor’s arrest inflames tension between local officials, federal immigration agents

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested at a new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in his city on Friday, escalating tensions between local officials and federal authorities tasked with carrying out President Donald Trump’s immigration efforts.

Baraka, who is running for governor of New Jersey, is accused of trespassing and ignoring “multiple warnings” from Homeland Security officials to leave the detention facility, according to Alina Habba, Trump’s former lawyer and current acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Baraka and other Democratic members of Congress had joined protests outside the center on Friday and that they “stormed the gate and broke into the detention facility” as a busload of detainees was entering the security gate.

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Wikipedia: Gestapo

The Gestapo committed widespread atrocities during its existence. The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters (clergy and religious organisations), career criminals, the Sinti and Roma population, handicapped persons, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews. Those arrested by the Gestapo were often held without judicial process, and political prisoners throughout Germany—and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree (German: Nacht und Nebel)—simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody. Contrary to popular perception, the Gestapo was actually a relatively small organization with limited surveillance capability; still it proved extremely effective due to the willingness of ordinary Germans to report on fellow citizens. During World War II, the Gestapo played a key role in the Holocaust. After the war ended, the Gestapo was declared a criminal organisation by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at the Nuremberg trials, and several top Gestapo members were sentenced to death.
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It appears that Trump is turning I.C.E. into his personal version of The Gestapo (Original Post) Towlie Saturday OP
K&R UTUSN Saturday #1
All this talk today of these Trump Nazis paying the piper, who is going to do it? dem4decades Saturday #2
Anybody Doing Facial Recognition Deep State Witch Saturday #3
Wow.. hadn't thought of that.. Could Very Well Be! Cha Saturday #5
Yes, I was just thinking today That Cha Saturday #4

dem4decades

(12,750 posts)
2. All this talk today of these Trump Nazis paying the piper, who is going to do it?
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:53 PM
Saturday

They've taken over the government, they own the Senate and the Supreme Court. We're basically a military state with all the Trumpers on the police forces and in the military.

I'd like to have a positive attitude but can't.

Deep State Witch

(11,781 posts)
3. Anybody Doing Facial Recognition
Sat May 10, 2025, 11:13 PM
Saturday

On these masked thugs? I'll bet you dollars to donuts that they're "pardoned" J6ers.

Cha

(310,568 posts)
4. Yes, I was just thinking today That
Sat May 10, 2025, 11:40 PM
Saturday

Mump is whipping them into shape to fight off any form of Insurrection there against his Fascist Takeover, as well as his Inhumane ICE Terrorists!

TY!

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