NYT: Trump Admin Will Arrest Thousands Of Immigrant Families This Weekend | Talking Points Memo

The Trump administration will launch its long forecasted nationwide raids this weekend, with plans to arrest thousands of undocumented immigrant families beginning Sunday, the New York Times reported Thursday.


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Trump’s lawless reign of terror continues unabated.

Nothing anyone can do, apparently.

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Did they get orders to ignore the kitchen staffs at Trump owned properties?

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So, let’s see…Mueller to testify Wednesday. Cause huge uproar over the weekend. That sounds about right…Donnie, you’re a genius!

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The first image that comes to mind is jack-booted thugs banging on doors in the night to demand “show us your papers.”

Yeah, this is now our America.

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Start with Melania and her kid and his purported father.

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Now there are reports about executive action on the Census too.

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I wonder how successful he will be, given that the resistance has mobilized.

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will be held in detention centers in Texas and Pennsylvania, as well as hotel rooms.

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Where are they going to put these thousands of people with detention centers already bursting at the seams?

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And the purported kid’s grandparents.

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Ah, Texas and PA. Where?

Hotel rooms?!

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PSA: if you see illegally-parked unmarked cars, don’t forget to call your local towing company this weekend.

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Those are located in LA and MS, not Texas and PA.

This sounds like a gigantic clusterfuck that’s more a stunt to appeal to the rubes.

How close are the Louisiana ones to the potential visiting hurricane?

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Collateral deportation arrests? Does that mean “Whoops! You weren’t white and couldn’t provide proof right on the spot with a gun in your face that you were born here, so off to a concentration camp you go!”?

I hope everybody in close proximity to where these raids might be taking place all have their cameras ready. This is full on brownshirt territory we’re in.

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Looks like we have become a lawless state.

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Let alone one that’s likely to end in shootings, raids on the wrong addresses, citizens rounded up as well…

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Hello…Brownshirts anyone? Didn’t we fight a war against this type of thing?? How fast does this go from rounding up brown people who we think are here illegally to rounding up “wrong-thinking” people who don’t vote the way we like???

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Trump should be arrested this weekend, at the first tee.

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