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MarkHirsch's avatar

Trump’s America is Nazi Germany in the 1930’s.

Trump’s regime is Fascist and racist. Wake up America before it’s too late.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Obviously this fascist regime is not targeting violent criminals. They are rounding up immigrants caught in a maze of bureaucratic paperwork and court cases. Rounding up workers who've lived and worked in the US for decades. Women married to US military persons, and who have US citizen children. Miller and Homan want numbers of detainees and deportations to increase, so they target anyone who is still undocumented, but trying to get the proper papers. How is making the US safe when families are cruelly and unnecessarily torn apart? It's not "safer". It's xenophobic madness, and must stop.

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Bad Bunny's avatar

It's so disreputable to go after the "low-hanging fruit" like this family merely for the sake of inflating the numbers. Miller and Homan will never work in this town again!

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Jean Coldwell's avatar

There is NO reason on God’s earth to detain, much less deport, people like her! Where is the intelligence, the reason, the compassion, the humanity in these people. They are as COLD as ICE!

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The Mitz's avatar

Have you seen Stephen Miller?

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Fed Up With Fraud's avatar

I have no words, the intention behind this is hatred and evil and a desire to cause as much suffering as possible. Time those who thought up all this were stopped. She doesn’t sound like a drug dealer, rapist or murderer to me!

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Kate Morley's avatar

This is horrific!!! What have we become?!?!?!

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Closer to the Edge's avatar

Monsters

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Susan R Stange's avatar

I have a gonzo piece I wonder if you'd publish. Please advise as to how to send. If necessary I can publish in Comments thread

About Noem take down of Sen Oadilla yesterday. Email at handmaid9999@proton.me

Thank you for considering

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Susan R Stange's avatar

Padilla. See i need an editor

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Abbie's avatar

Can her congressman help? Can her senator help?

That should NOT be necessary to keep Trump’s gestapo at bay! Christy Noem should be treated to a week in that prison in El Salvador: head shaved etc.

She could keep her expensive watch, however.

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A Teacher’s Thoughts's avatar

Are there any members of Congress from Louisiana who would be willing to do the right thing and intervene for her? I doubt any would risk Trump and Noem’s wrath.

After all, keeping your job in Congress seems to be their most important priority. It is ridiculous to have our president pro tempor or the Senate be 91 years old! He is third in the line of succession if the president dies. When did so many Americans quit caring about knowledge and common sense to the point of repeating conspiracy theories, and voting for and still supporting a cruel dictator who is ignoring the U.S. Constitution??

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Dale Lawrence's avatar

I hate what this country has become. I hate what “fellow citizens” are doing. I utterly disavow this cruelty and stupidity. I want no part in it. If this country lacks the rights and laws to end these kidnappings, then it no longer exists. It has become some obscene, bullying, autocracy. I hope and pray we can defeat the MAGAts and not only restore democracy, but strengthen and improve it. Tomorrow I’ll carry my “No Kings” sign, wave a flag, and wear my stole and cross. I hope and pray all the people protesting across the nation will remain safe and free.

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Jocelyn Millis's avatar

What possible threat to the security of the USA did she pose? How many rules have the likes of Stephen Miller skirted in his life. If he was detained because of cruelty and in humanity while serving public office the security and future prosperity of the USA would be promoted. His twisted policies and actions are directly harmful to a child of a marine who is still breastfeeding.

This is the dirt of wrongdoing that will never wash away!

May the angels of the lord protect this woman and her family 🌹

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Trailrunner925's avatar

I'm all for a military parade showing up tomorrow, taking trump and cohorts into custody, and summarily deporting them..... Noem, Patel, trump, Vance, tacobelle, homan,miller, hegseth.. the lot of them.... let them all sit it out in a shipping container in east africa for a while.... and oh, RFK jr can go with them as their medic.

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Kimberlee Gravitz's avatar

Is there no allowance for common sense in these decisions?

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Closer to the Edge's avatar

Common sense?

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Linda Peragine's avatar

Sick.

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

Trump is the “vermin”.

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Maude's avatar

Heartbreaking for her and her family. 😥😥

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Cathy Gray's avatar

I fear we have run out of the words needed to adequately describe the horrors that we are seeing.

I’ve sat in immigration courts as a support person for undocumented immigrants. It’s a grueling process played out in slow motion…but it is a process, governed by rules and policies…well, it used to be that.

No doubt, the US is long overdue for immigration reform, a reform that is humane, streamlined, judicious. This halter-skelter cruelty is NOT a legitimate (or legal) pathway to a better system.

I suppose it is a global, international, problem. That being true, reform of immigration systems must all begin with one absolute truth: We are all equally and wonderfully human. Any system that dehumanizes any person, that rips human dignity away from anyone for any reason, leaves us all bare and shivering in darkness. I want no part in this.

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Randi's avatar

This is so cruel and unnecessary. It wasn't even something Paola did; it was something her mother didn't do when Paola was underage. There should be an immediate remedy for this family since they were following the guidelines in place for her.

This is supposed to be a party of family values. What a laugh!

Too cruel!!

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