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Trump Is Turning ICE Into His Gestapo

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
ICE agents acting like Gestapo arresting US residents

America has a long history of weaponizing immigration enforcement — from the Palmer Raids to Japanese internment. But never like this. With Project 2025 as his blueprint, Trump is turning ICE into a paramilitary tool for political repression. This isn’t about border security anymore. iPINIONS asserts that it’s about silencing dissent, criminalizing protest, and making… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Authoritarianism, Civil Liberties, Denaturalization, deportation, ICE, immigration, Political Repression, Project 2025, Trump

Trump’s Deportation Policies: Cruel, Careless, and Now Blessed by the Supreme Court

Monday, April 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Collage showing themes of unjust deportation: Kilmar Garcia, Makula Kintu, Duke basketball star Khaman Maluach, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and the phrase 'Uncertain Justice' symbolizing Supreme Court inaction.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘administrative error,’ and zero accountability The Trump administration’s deportation program has always been a cocktail of malice and mismanagement. But its treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia reeks of the collateral damage we expect only from autocracies like Russia. It deported him to El Salvador. Never mind that, like hundreds of other deportees,… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: deportation, immigration policy, Khaman Maluach, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Makula Kintu, Marco Rubio, South Sudan, Supreme Court, Trump administration

‘The New Colossus’ Big Lie: America’s Chain of Hypocrisy from Slavery to Deportation

Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
illustration of Blacks as slaves and Browns as deportees

From the Blacks they brought in chains to the Blacks and Browns they cage in prisons and the Browns they deport in shackles — for some, America has never been the land of the free… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: deportation, hypocrisy, New Colossus, racism, slavery

Purgatory: Deporting Haitian Migrants Back to Haiti…

Monday, September 20, 2021 at 7:07 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

As the first planeloads of angry Haitian migrants arrived in Port-au-Prince on Sunday after being repatriated from the U.S.-Mexico border, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security defended the deportations, saying misinformation is behind the attempts to enter the United States. Emphasizing that the administration is accelerating repatriation flights to Haiti and possibly other… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Del Rio, deportation, Haiti, migrants

Israeli PM Netanyahu Says African Migrants Worse than Muslim Terrorists

Friday, March 23, 2018 at 7:50 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that an electronic fence along the Israel-Egypt border has saved the Jewish state from jihadist attacks or what he believes would be worse — a tide of African migrants. … The interior ministry says there are currently some 42,000 African migrants in Israel, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea,… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: African migrants, deportation, Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, refugees

Netanyahu Deporting Blacks To Preserve White Character of Jewish State

Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 8:39 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

I took a lot of flak for characterizing Netanyahu’s Israel as follows in “Israel Votes to Become More Like (old) Apartheid South Africa,” March 18, 2015. ____________________ Election Day in Israel yesterday was full of surprises; none more so than the desperate declarations and exhortations Bibi Netanyahu made to get his supporters to the polls.… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Africans, deportation, Eritrea, Israel, Sudan

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