This is an older article, from March, but the images are telling.

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This is an older article, from March, but the images are telling. When the #DonaldTrump administration began collecting migrants and asylum speakers into concentration detainment camps, the people had to give up their belongings. Shoes, toothpaste, jewelery... everything.

In #TrumpNation marching toward 1938 Germany is the name of the game.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-janitors-collection-of-things-confiscated-from-migrants-in-the-desert/amp?__twitter_impression=true

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Jon Mallin said…
One way of looking at it, which may or may not be correct... this is simply a pilot program to test how to confine masses of people against their will... if one uses that lens to view it from, which group is going to the chain-link fence, decommissioned Walmarts and tents next?
June 25, 2018 at 5:33 PM
Jason ON said…
Compounding on that, I marked a year, year-and-a-half ago that the CBP would make a perfect "secret police." The courts have concluded that the CBP agents have carte blanche authority within 100 miles of a border, but if you take into account all ports-of-entry (airports), then something like 90% of the population in this country is now within the purview of CBP carte blanche authority.
June 25, 2018 at 5:51 PM
Jon Mallin said…
Also ICE has had some pretty exceptional authorities that have been surprising, including seizing domain names etc
June 25, 2018 at 5:59 PM
Jon Mallin said…
Wait until ICE begins guarding polling locations at election time.. pretext for... Intimidation, arbitrary arrests or.. ?
June 25, 2018 at 6:05 PM
Jason ON said…
Maybe I was thinkiing ICE and not CBP. Either way, national secret police.
June 25, 2018 at 6:14 PM
Jon Mallin said…
CBP is the one with the geographic jurisdictional limit you mentioned but CBP and ICE have some similarities. There are even .gov web pages that compare and contrast the two.
June 25, 2018 at 6:45 PM
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