The Felon Continues to Mimic Hitler's Moves

The burning of the Reichstag, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, was used by Adolph Hitler to pressure the aging and in declining health Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany, to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties.  Once issued, Hitler used the Reichstag Fire Decree and the suspension of civil liberties to pursue a ruthless confrontation with the Communists and opponents of the Nazi Party.  Now, many believe starting the Reichstag fire was actually a Nazi plot aimed at using the fire as a pretense to in effect institute martial law to eliminate and/or intimidate and terrorize opponents. Fast forward to 2025 America and we see the Felon using ICE as his Gestapo to commit violent actions against alleged undocumented migrants - e.g., brutally raiding apartment buildings in the middle of the night and zip tying even small children - to provoke civilian protests to the unlawful actions which he seems poised to use as a manufactured excuse for invoking the Insurrection Act and imposing martial law in Chicago, Portland, and other large cities.  Indeed, ICE appears to be morphing into the Felon's private army which sees itself as above the law that is deployed to terrorize non-whites and silence critics and opponents of the Felon's increasingly fascist regime. Combine this with the Felon's efforts to censor news outlets and even late night comedians and we Americans find ourselves facing something perhaps even more frightening than the so-called red scare under Joseph McCarthy.  A piece in Politico looks at the Felon's dangerous and illegal actions that mirror those seen in Germany ninety years ago:

President Donald Trump [The Felon] on Monday said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to deploy the military if federal courts prevented him from deploying the National Guard to protect federal buildings and conduct law enforcement operations.

The comments came a day after a federal judge blocked the president from sending National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, which Trump claims has been taken over by left-wing “domestic terrorists.”

“You look at what’s happening with Portland over the years, it’s a burning hell hole,” Trump added. “And then you have a judge that lost her way that tries to pretend that there’s no problem.”

The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a federal law that allows the president to nationally deploy the U.S. military or federalize state National Guard troops to quell what the president deems an insurrection against the United States.

Earlier Monday, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said the administration had been contending with a “legal insurrection” and that rulings stifling the White House’s agenda amounted to “an insurrection against the laws and Constitution of the United States.”

“We need to have district courts in this country that see themselves as being under the laws and Constitution and not being able to take for themselves powers that are reserved solely for the president,” Miller added.

Trump has flirted with invoking the Insurrection Act before. During the 2024 campaign, he said he would use the law to suppress unrest. And at the end of his first term in office, some of his supporters urged him to invoke the law to try to hold onto power after his loss to former President Joe Biden.

In the Felon's mind, anything that questions his cruel and dictatorial agenda is an "insurrection."  There is, of course in reality no armed insurrection against the United States, so the Felon's invoking of the Insurrection Act would be illegal under any remotely accurate reading of the law.  Equally concerning is the manner in which ICE is becoming a vehicle for a police state. A piece at Mother Jones looks at ICE's frightening growth and growing threat to all immigrants (but especially those of Hispanic ancestry):

When it passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in June, Congress handed nearly $75 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some $30 billion of that money will be spent on enforcement and deportation—hiring spree incoming—and another $45 billion will go toward new detention centers, including 50 by the end of the year.

The OBBB immediately supercharged President Donald Trump’s [the Felon's] mass deportation campaign, which already had been terrorizing immigrant communities and sending asylum seekers to a hellish prison in El Salvador. But an important part of the detention state ramp-up has flown under the radar: ICE’s increased cooperation with local law enforcement agencies.

On Friday, ICE hit a new milestone: The agency has now signed more than 1,000 so-called 287(g) agreements nationwide. These agreements, which deputize local police and jails to perform certain immigration enforcement functions, have exploded under Trump. At the end of the Biden presidency, ICE had just 135 287(g) deals in place; now there are 1,001—a 641 percent increase.

About half of these agreements are what ICE calls task force agreements, which allow state and local cops to essentially act as immigration agents while fulfilling their regular police duties. If these sound familiar—and familiarly problematic—it’s because they were discontinued in 2012, following a Department of Justice investigation the year before that found widespread racial profiling by Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, then led by the notorious Joe Arpaio. The Trump administration brought task forces back this year, and ICE has signed more than 500 of these particular agreements across 33 states.

State cooperation with federal immigration authorities can lead to “rippling harm” on the communities that police are meant to serve and protect, says Shayna Kessler, director of the Advancing Universal Representation Initiative at the Vera Institute of Justice. “It increases distrust in law enforcement. It increases fear in immigrant communities, it decreases the ability of immigrants to take care of their families, to support the economy, and to be strong and stable members of their communities.”

The federal government is already pumping billions of dollars into Trump’s [the Felon's] anti-immigration crackdown, unleashing masked agents all across America. But in many places, undocumented immigrants will now also have to worry that any encounter with a police officer could lead to their deportation.

The other question some, especially those in the media, don't want to address is what happens when ICE begins apprehending native born citizens who oppose the Felon's cruel and fascist agenda.