The American Prospect: Will America Be a Democracy Next July 4th?
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Quote:Signym, Trump is delivering your priority. Your priority FROM YESTERDAY! was
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Bread and circuses, but without the bread.
We really need a competitive third party ... and a fourth and fifth.
Quote:http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=66904
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Border security and immigration control
No more anchor babies
Codify asylum procedings to clarify that anyone who has passed thru another nation to reach our border can't claim asylum because they could have claimed asylum in the intervening nation(s)
Continue deportation programs, eliminate benefits for illegals (see deficit)
How will Trump be delivering Signym's priority? Like this:
Trump now has $1 trillion — with a T — to spend on defense. Pete Hegseth, Trump’s secretary of defense, recently testified before Congress and described how national defense, under Trump, is transitioning from a force fighting foreign threats into a “domestic affair”:
“I think we’re entering another phase, especially under President Trump, with his focus on the homeland, where the National Guard and Reserves become a critical component of how we secure that homeland.”
Juxtapose that promise with Trump telling reporters the worst threat to national security is “the enemy within,” ie, Democrats, independents, and Republicans who don’t support him, and it all comes into view. Pan wide for Trump’s new gulag agenda:
The bill also provides $45 billion to build new immigration detention centers, a 265 percent annual increase to ICE’s detention budget. This funding level is a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system, where 155,933 inmates are currently incarcerated.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/donald-trump-2672646659/
Signym, with a little patience, you will soon see that Trump is delivering your priority.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Signym's priority has anticipated consequences.
Originally posted by second:
How will Trump be delivering Signym's priority?
Trump’s war against immigrants
July 5, 2025
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/07/05/trumps-war-against-immigra
nts-threatens-the-freedom-of-all-americans/
The tactics of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda have shifted from time to time, but the broader objective has remained consistent: to deport as many people as possible and, more broadly, to transform the restrictions and reach of America’s immigration system.
President Trump and members of his administration believe they have a democratic mandate to do this. Their ultimate fear is that outsiders pose a danger to American values — the threat of not just taking our jobs or becoming welfare scroungers but also transforming our society into something different. “America First” means not so much putting Americans first as putting a distinct idea of America and American values first.
Yet the danger to those American values comes not from immigration itself but from immigration control. You cannot control outsiders (immigrants or would-be immigrants) without controlling insiders (citizens). The more vigorously you try to control immigration, the more you end up limiting the freedom of your citizens and violating equality and the rule of law.
This isn’t hypothetical. As Hiroshi Motomura and others have noted, during the Great Depression and in the years following World War II, an estimated two million people were forced to leave the United States. Astonishingly, more than half were American citizens, mostly people who were (or were suspected of being) Mexican. They were blamed for taking jobs and public resources and were deported or self-deported under intense pressure from authorities after targeted raids on neighborhoods.
This number does not include the many others who were wrongfully arrested, detained or incarcerated, often for days and weeks and sometimes for months or years, by the U.S. government. Nor does it include the many immigrants who were legal residents and were wrongly deported.
These statistics do not tell the whole story. To understand how immigration control undermines freedom — and the fundamental values not just of America but of most Western democracies — we need to look deeper.
The popular image of immigration control is border security, but there is more to immigration control than that. Governments everywhere encourage people to cross their borders and enter their countries. The U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office strategy aims to have 90 million annual international visitors — tourists, students, athletes, business travelers, transport workers — by 2027.
Immigration control is not necessarily about restricting entry but about controlling what those who enter do: determining whether they can work, study, reside, buy property, open bank accounts, set up businesses or marry. This is a challenge because many citizens are all too ready to employ outsiders, admit them to schools and universities, sell to them, buy from them or fall in love with them — in short, welcome them.
The only way for a government to prevent this from happening is to control its citizens by limiting their freedom to live as they choose. This means citizens must be controlled with penalties or punishments: fines, imprisonment or violence. They must be inspected, monitored, scolded, threatened and made to be fearful of finding themselves in violation of the law and at risk of being punished.
Citizens will challenge the laws, find ways around them or even violate them if the law limits their freedom to hire, teach, befriend or welcome whomever they choose.
To overpower citizens, governments will have to spend more money — on courts, judges, lawyers, prisons, the police and compensation payments — or find ways around their laws (or both).
In 2016 Denmark criminalized any act that could be viewed as helping asylum seek
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If you're a citizen, you have already been required to learn English. English is the official language of the USA by Executive Order.
People who don't speak a lick of English are gonna have a hard time convincing anyone that they belong here. So if you belong here, or even if you don't, stop being so lazy and brush up on those English skills.
Green card holders, foreign visitors with visas, etc ... they have papers.
And if you're really paranoid about being swept up, there's Real ID driver's licenses.
People can befriend and even fall in love with whoever they want, they just can't hire them.
Seems reasonable.
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Oh, and your previous post? Hysterical paranoia. Your reputation for propaganda, unfortunately for you, tarnishes everything you post.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Donald Trump is much tougher on the border, Trump signed order making English the official language but this goes in contrast to other Presidents of the USA senile Reagan, senile Biden, Bush senior, Clinton, Bush junior, Obama, Kamala who all seemed to have their own loose interpretation of immigration
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As far as learning english. Do you want to go back to some kind of residential school system? Trump has started building is whatever you want to call them. Will ICE be given the powers to rip children out of their homes to force them into a school to learn English. And oh lets not mention the loss of their cultures if they are denied contact with parents.
I've known at least a half a dozen families over the years were one of the parents learned english for just conversing or for work. The children basically grew up bilingual. The grandparents not so much.
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That's not going to happen. They're all being removed. They won't be going to schools here anymore.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Originally posted by Brenda:
As far as learning english. Do you want to go back to some kind of residential school system? Trump has started building is whatever you want to call them. Will ICE be given the powers to rip children out of their homes to force them into a school to learn English. And oh lets not mention the loss of their cultures if they are denied contact with parents.
I've known at least a half a dozen families over the years were one of the parents learned english for just conversing or for work. The children basically grew up bilingual. The grandparents not so much.
Since when has Trump started to build residential schools? LINKS PLEASE.
So AFA "ripping children from their parents" ... that's not gonna happen. Since kids are supposed to go to school, instead of coddling non-English speakers with bilingual instruction, take 6 months for total immersion in English.
Hubby was tossed into grade school knowing only Hungarian (and there are NO common root words between Hungarian and any of the European languages or English, bc it has completely different roots). There was nobody to translate for him, no "bilingual" anything bc who the fuck speaks Hungarian? He had to teach himself. If he can learn English, anyone can.
And also ... IF YOU WANT TO BE A CITIZEN OF THE USA, LEARNING ENGLISH IS A REQUIREMENT.
It's different if you're a citizen, so to speak, of a native nation.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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CNN: This is video of Maxwell returning to prison after meeting with Trump’s Deputy AG
https://old.bitchute.com/video/hRyr7ZycC0cF/
Trump Says Israel Not Committing Genocide in Gaza While Netanyahu Decries Nazi-Like Starvation of Hostages
https://www.nysun.com/article/trump-says-israel-not-committing-genocid
e-in-gaza-while-netanyahu-decries-nazi-like-starvation-of-hostages
Alex Jones Now Accuses Trump of Plotting with Maxwell
https://franknez.com/alex-jones-now-accuses-trump-of-plotting-with-max
well/
Jeffrey Epstein sold Prince Andrew’s secrets, new book claims
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/jeffrey-epstein-sold-
prince-andrews-secrets-new-book-claims-zqv5zcgsv
Gaza latest: ‘Appalling’ hostage videos spark outcry as UK to evacuate hundreds of ill Palestinian children
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-hosta
ges-hamas-famine-palestine-war-latest-news-b2801434.html
Israel-Gaza: The International Criminal Court in turmoil
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/04/israel-gaza
-the-international-criminal-court-in-turmoil_6744041_4.html
Trump Admin Broke Rules to Move Ghislaine to Club Fed Camp
https://www.thedailybeast.com/snitch-ghislaines-prison-move-was-due-to
-death-threats/
Epstein Insider Hoffenberg Talks About Wexner Maxwell Clinton & Trump - Part 2
https://old.bitchute.com/video/hZyFVaoJMSKt/
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oh Texas?
Newsom's gerrymander plan could cost House Republicans 5 seats
https://www.kcra.com/article/california-redistricting-5-us-house-seats
-texas/65603872
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