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Does ICE's new 'big beautiful budget' make it the third largest military in the world? [1]
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Date: 2025-07-06
The entire GOP is accountable for this path to authoritarian repression.
There will be no limit to the tactical capability of US immigration enforcement with an unbridled and well-funded I.C.E. After all, despite the paltry number of criminal migrant arrests, the Trump administration has asked Mexico to allow military incursions. With the use of aerial drone and marine assets by narco traffickers, Trump’s “Peace through Strength” might need an upgrade.
Trump ordered the assassination of Soleimani and is surrounded by people who want to run Sicario ops in Mexico as part of a Global War on Cartels. He watched Sicario 2 and thought it was real and just incorporated it into his rallies. It's why he describes its car chase scene as if it actually happened.
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The renowned Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt recently rejected comparisons between the Holocaust and the Trump administration’s separation of families at the southern border of the United States. “Equating the two,” she wrote in the Atlantic Monthly, “is not only historically wrong, it is also strategically wrong.”
Lipstadt argues that it is historically wrong because of the difference between mass killing and the separation of children from parents deemed illegal immigrants to the US. And it is strategically wrong, she believes, because it allows the policy’s defenders to dismiss criticisms as hyperbolic frenzy:
Glib comparisons to the Nazis provide the administration and its supporters with a chance to defend their position, something they do not deserve.
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Lipstadt is right that careless and hyperbolic comparisons are unhelpful – but it is the task of scholars to communicate and debate the complexity of entanglements between past and present. Events at the southern border are not an extermination – but they are driven by public opinion and policy decisions with clear parallels to other Nazi-era events that the museum highlights with unerring precision.
In the Americans and the Holocaust exhibition there are sharp and sustained criticisms of refugee policy during the era. One especially remarkable display records opinion polling in the US from November 1938, which logged 94% disapproval of German treatment of Jews combined with 71% disapproval of allowing more Jews into the United States. At the heart of this disparity is a sentiment that resonates with the contemporary determination that, as Trump put it: “The United States will not be a migrant camp.”
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