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A WAR ON WORKERS: TRUMP'S RAIDS AS AUTHORITARIAN THEATER [1]
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Date: 2025-06-12
When A Government Deploys Its Military Against Its Own People, Is It Protecting Or Occupying?
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown metastasized into a full-blown assault on workers, deploying military force not against genuine threats, but against the very fabric of communities. “The Trump administration told us they were going after violent criminals, gang members, and drug dealers. But they went after a home depot” (Mackey). This glaring disconnect reveals a darker strategy. While DHS selectively publicizes the capture of "heinous criminals," this "can create a skewed perception of immigration enforcement, focusing solely on the most egregious cases while obscuring the impact on families and communities" (FOX 11 Digital Team). The reality on the ground is one of calculated terror. “They’re picking up folks who were literally just going about making their daily bread and terrorizing them in their place of work” (Birmingham). The targets are not random; they are symbolic. Federal agents swarmed farms, car washes, and garment factories—the economic arteries of immigrant life. One witness recounted the chilling efficiency of the operation: “For the first time I saw in this country how they arrived in an aggressive manner” (NBC Los Angeles). This aggression is a tool of intimidation. As one organizer noted, it is common for a boss to say, “‘Keep it up, complain about your wages… I know where you live, and I can send ICE there’” (Birmingham). The goal transcends deportation; it is about suppression and control, a live-action experiment in federal overreach. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass warned, “Maybe we are part of a national experiment about how far to determine the federal government can go in reaching in and taking over power from a governor, power from a local jurisdiction” (The Associated Press). Detainees, including families, were held in squalid conditions, with one family given only a single bottle of water to share among five people for a day (Singh). This is not law enforcement; it is a siege.
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