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This was always his plan, he tried to invoke the Insurrection Act in his first term, but the people around him said no. We are very close to martial law.

…Trump has signed an executive order directing that his defense and homeland security secretaries report back within 90 days on whether they think he should invoke the 1807 law called the Insurrection Act, which allows troops to be used for civilian law enforcement on U.S. soil during emergencies.

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The changes that could be in store for the Pentagon as Hegseth takes charge

There will be a lot on the plate for new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when he steps into his office on the Pentagon’s third floor E Ring.
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Was listening to NPR this morning and heard the following things.

Trump is going to deport everyone who was granted temporary legal status in the United States through asylum seeking during Biden's administration. He's ended / reversed these programs and another person in his administration said these programs were only supposed to be temporary, not backdoor immigration policy.

Ice arrested more than 1,100 people on Monday and more than 1,000 on Sunday. Trump was on record saying these are all very dangerous people, and they have started by rounding up violent criminals. But NPR was able to find reports one after another of people being caught up in these sweets having no criminal history whatsoever. Additionally, US citizens have been caught up in these sweeps, detained, had their citizenship questioned and eventually released.

The Trump administration has created a task force specifically for going after "sanctuary cities".

Trump fired everyone in the Justice Department that was working on his prosecution under Jack Smith. Said these people can't be expected to be loyal to him.

Trump reinstated every military personnel discharged for refusing the Covid-19 vaccine with full backpay and hones/merits restored.

Lastly, Trump has froze all financial aid and grants while they go under review to determine if they are in alignment with his policies. What does this mean exactly and does this have any immediate direct impacts on people who depend on these types of government services?
 
RenegadeMonster said:
Was listening to NPR this morning and heard the following things.

Trump is going to deport everyone who was granted temporary legal status in the United States through asylum seeking during Biden's administration. He's ended / reversed these programs and another person in his administration said these programs were only supposed to be temporary, not backdoor immigration policy.

Ice arrested more than 1,100 people on Monday and more than 1,000 on Sunday. Trump was on record saying these are all very dangerous people, and they have started by rounding up violent criminals. But NPR was able to find reports one after another of people being caught up in these sweets having no criminal history whatsoever. Additionally, US citizens have been caught up in these sweeps, detained, had their citizenship questioned and eventually released.

The Trump administration has created a task force specifically for going after "sanctuary cities".

Trump fired everyone in the Justice Department that was working on his prosecution under Jack Smith. Said these people can't be expected to be loyal to him.

Trump reinstated every military personnel discharged for refusing the Covid-19 vaccine with full backpay and hones/merits restored.

Lastly, Trump has froze all financial aid and grants while they go under review to determine if they are in alignment with his policies. What does this mean exactly and does this have any immediate direct impacts on people who depend on these types of government services?
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As for the last one it is causing chaos in higher education. Many faculty and a lot of grad students are funded entirely these kinds of grants. There are also whole divisions at the CDC here in Atlanta whose entire jobs are on "indefinite hold".
 
"Collateral deportations" have always been a thing going back to Obama. The lengths of criminality don't matter to ICE. In post 9/11 days until Obama's emphasis on enforcement (the only thing he and the Republican Congress could agree on), ICE/INS didn't really bother so much with non-criminal undocumented. When it became a numbers game on how many we deported every year, anyone undocumented and not on temporary protected status was removed. It would terrify me to be someone who is brown skinned and left my wallet at home if you were around the area of an ICE raid. Unless immigration courts have improved, most people don't get much of a chance to stay in the country before shipped off. The terrifying thought isn't that happening to a criminal but someone who's been in this country for over 20 or 30 years, keeps their nose clean, builds a life here, has children who are citizens and then is shipped off to a land they do not remember and are made to scramble to find a way to make a living in a foreign and a lot of times dangerous "home" country. Not to mention, the wreckage that leaves behind in households that are now missing a family member and most likely breadwinner.

I'm reading Poverty, by America from Matthew Desmond. Very eye-opening and some of this are things I already knew but it is definitely challenging a lot of my preconceived notions and prejudices.
 
mdmost said:
When it became a numbers game on how many we deported every year, anyone undocumented and not on temporary protected status was removed.
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Will any form of temporary protected status survive the Trump administration.

As I mentioned above, anyone who was granted temporary protected status as an asylum seeker / refugee under Biden has had that status rescinded and those programs ended. Trump plans on deporting all these people. His administration is saying those programs were only supposed to be temporary, while they sort things out back home, and not to become a backdoor immigration policy which the Biden administration turned it into.

How long until DACA and other protected groups are completely eliminated?
 
mdmost said:
"Collateral deportations" have always been a thing going back to Obama. The lengths of criminality don't matter to ICE. In post 9/11 days until Obama's emphasis on enforcement (the only thing he and the Republican Congress could agree on), ICE/INS didn't really bother so much with non-criminal undocumented. When it became a numbers game on how many we deported every year, anyone undocumented and not on temporary protected status was removed. It would terrify me to be someone who is brown skinned and left my wallet at home if you were around the area of an ICE raid. Unless immigration courts have improved, most people don't get much of a chance to stay in the country before shipped off. The terrifying thought isn't that happening to a criminal but someone who's been in this country for over 20 or 30 years, keeps their nose clean, builds a life here, has children who are citizens and then is shipped off to a land they do not remember and are made to scramble to find a way to make a living in a foreign and a lot of times dangerous "home" country. Not to mention, the wreckage that leaves behind in households that are now missing a family member and most likely breadwinner.

I'm reading Poverty, by America from Matthew Desmond. Very eye-opening and some of this are things I already knew but it is definitely challenging a lot of my preconceived notions and prejudices.
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Desmond is a pretty great writer. I got to talk to him for a while at a conference last year. I'm teaching a course on poverty this semester and I only narrowly decided against his book in favor of a new one that just came out specifically on whether college can lift you out of poverty. It researched a bunch of poor students who go to top universities to see what happens to them. I thought it would connect with my students more, but I won't know for a few weeks.
 
Hemotep said:
Desmond is a pretty great writer. I got to talk to him for a while at a conference last year. I'm teaching a course on poverty this semester and I only narrowly decided against his book in favor of a new one that just came out specifically on whether college can lift you out of poverty. It researched a bunch of poor students who go to top universities to see what happens to them. I thought it would connect with my students more, but I won't know for a few weeks.
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My oldest was assigned Evicted by her AP English teacher. I'm planning to read that in the next few months. Sadly, the people who need to read his books would never read something that challenges their preconceived notions on poverty and American exceptionalism.
 
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