Today, NO KINGS protests took place across the US, in over 2700 locations, with over 7 million people participating -- which is over twice as many people who turned out for Donald Chump's January 2017 inauguration and Chump's January 2025 inauguration combined. Ouch, that as to hurt the tiny Chump who's always been such a size queen.
Over 20,000 turned out in Austin, Texas. And if you're thinking that's just Austin, people turned out across Texas -- a state that filth has destroyed -- the Roseanne Barrs and others moving in and degrading the state each year. Texas gets such a bad rap as though its dealing with just home grown Republicans. The 1979 to 1980 GOP migration to Texas from Ohio, for example. Every year more garbage goes into Texas from other US states. So it's amazing when they get close to electing a Democrat to state wide office.
Dallas' WFAA reports on the NO KING protests that took place in North Texas.
Depending on your political point of view, Mother Nature might have
been weeping in sympathy, or God might have been chastising protesters
when the skies opened up with a downpour on the “No Kings” protest
that packed Pacific Plaza in downtown Dallas on Saturday afternoon.
Whatever the case, the steady rain didn’t dampen the cheers and chants
of the crowd as speakers decried ICE tactics, immigration crackdowns and divisions President Donald Trump’s policies are opening in the nation.
Arlington, Flower Mound, Frisco, Fort Worth, Garland, McKinney, and
other cities in North Texas held protests on Saturday, joining some 2,600 communities
around the country in an event to denounce President Donald Trump and
policies they say have led him to act more like a monarch than a U.S.
president.
“We are here to say that our faiths stand for compassion, love and
mercy … leaders must bring us together,” the Rev. Eric Folkerth told the
crowd. Folkerth is one of the leaders of the Clergy League for
Emergency Action and Response, an interfaith group including Christian,
Muslim and Jewish clergy that organizes vigils outside Dallas’ ICE
facility. He called on protesters to pray for ICE agents who are
“harming their souls.”
ICE raids and immigration were a major target of the speakers, who
offered solidarity with Chicago and Portland, Oregon, two Democratic-led
cities that are in court fight efforts by the Trump administration to
deploy National Guard troops, including some from Texas, to assist ICE.
Police violence, the government shutdown and attacks on federal workers
and repeated calls to organize and vote were also on the speakers’
agendas.
Area residents held a protest Saturday at Spring Lake Park as part of the the national No Kings movement.
The protest was meant to take place in the parking lot of Central
Mall, located on Richmond Road. However, due to a private property
issue, organizers and attendees decided to move the protest to Spring
Lake Park.
At its peak, the protest saw between 150 to 175 attendees, with most
of them holding signs and some even dressed on theme with the movement.
The first local protest was in downtown Houston at Discovery Green.
Protesters gathered there, then started a march to Houston City Hall,
where another protest began at 2 p.m.
The City Hall rally lasted through 6 p.m. and included speakers and a
march around downtown Houston. There were also local protests in
Kingwood, The Woodlands, Katy, Cypress, Conroe, Richmond, Pasadena,
Huntsville, and Pearland.
“We’re here today to stand up to the Trump administration’s war on
immigrant communities and working-class people,” one demonstrator told
KHOU 11's Orko Manna.
“We all have to stand united, otherwise we get divided,” said another.
A chorus of cheers roared from the crowd as Democratic U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas took the microphone.
"We know what lawlessness looks like," Crockett said. "Lawlessness
looks like ICE going and disappearing people. Lawlessness looks like
Donald Trump, who just happens to be convicted of 34 felony convictions,
sitting in the White House. Lawlessness looks like going after your
political enemies just because."
12 NEWS NOW's Sharinna Byrd and Brett Strahan report Beaumont, Texas held a protest. Where's the link? I don't link to trash. How about Sharinna and Brett learn how to report? A report isn't a single sentence about a protest and paragraph after paragraph quoting a press release attacking the protest -- a press release a day before the protest. Who What When? Sharinna and Brett did you even study journalism?
Despite propaganda outlets like 12 NEWS NOW, Beaumont turned out for NO KINGS. KETK notes multiple protests in East Texas, "No Kings protests were held by East Texans in Athens, Jacksonville,
Longview, Lufkin, Palestine, Mineola, Nacogdoches and Tyler on Saturday
afternoon as a part of a series of No Kings protests which have been held across the country this year." Click here for photos. Drew Shaw (FORT WORTH REPORT) notes:
Storms over downtown Fort Worth were on and off Saturday, but shouts
of No Kings protesters were steady throughout the afternoon.
The event’s organizers estimated a crowd of 6,500 congregated in Burk
Burnett Park, where chants competed with wind and, at times, drumming
rain to protest President Donald Trump’s perceived authoritarianism and
pushing of the limits of executive power.
“Impeach Trump,” “Abolish ICE” and “Save Democracy” were common messages on signs.
Several thousand protesters gathered at Travis Park in downtown San Antonio on Saturday to denounce the Trump administration.
[. . .]
Among the many speakers who rallied the crowds were Texas Sen. Roland Gutierrez and U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro.
They gathered in Boerne. I speak in Texas all the time on many campuses. I've learned the state and then some since the start of the Iraq War. We have a ton of community members in Texas. Mineola and Athens are small cities. I am aware of them though. Boerne? I've never heard of it before tonight. That's not meant as an insult to them, good for Boerne for turning out. TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO reports:
Protesters lined Main Street in front of the Boerne City Hall building
as part of the nationwide “No Kings Day” protests happening across all
50 states today, coordinated by a network of organizations who oppose
policies and actions of President Donald Trump and his administration.
About a half-dozen Trump supporters stood on the other side of Main
Street to counter-protest the dozens who chanted and held signs to
express their concerns that the president is acting like a monarch
rather than a duly elected leader.
Today's demonstrations make up the second mass protests organized by
No Kings, formed largely by progressive groups who are against Trump's
agenda to rule authoritatively and act like a king. The first No Kings
rallies occurred in June to protest—among other issues— the lavish,
elaborate and expensive military parade Trump helped orchestrate in his
own honor.
Demonstrators at today's protests are also opposed to
the Trump administration's aggressive immigration detention
actions—carried out openly by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement
agents. Demonstrators are also protesting the dramatic cuts to
education resources, as well as the ongoing Republican gerrymandering
efforts in Texas, California and other states.
Veterans groups
are also part of the No Kings movement— in defense of constitutional
freedoms. Several veterans were among the protesters in Boerne.
That's Boerne, Austin, Beaumont, Houston, San Antonio, Athens, Lufkin, Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville, Palestine, Mineola, Fort-Worth and Nacogdoches. I'm sure there are many, many more. Houston, Dallas and San Antonio are in the top ten for most populated cities in the United States.
The reason we focused on Texas is because the state went for Chump. The November election had 6.3 million people voting for Chump and 4.8 million people voting for Kamala Harris -- the Texas vote went 56.14% for Chump, 42.46% voting for Kamala Harris.
But Texas turned out. Texas' turnout today is very bad news for Chump. San Francisco? We turned out today. But that shouldn't be surprising.
We delivered 323,719 votes for Kamala and only 62,594 for Chump -- that's 80.33% of us voted for Harris in San Francisco and only 15.53% voted for Chump. So, yeah, San Francisco turned out today and good for us.
But so did Texas. And that's a big turnaround from November. That's got to really worry Chump -- as it should. The people have turned against Chump. He was headed for lame duck status after the mid-terms anyway. But today demonstrates that the people have turned against him.
This is the pushback and he has been put on notice.
Of course with a demented person like him, it may not matter that he's been put on notice. But Republicans in the House better grasp that it matters since they'll be up for re-election in a year -- and those Republican senators up for re-election better grasp it as well.
Health insurance
prices for next year under the Affordable Care Act are now available in
about a dozen states, giving Americans their first look at the sharp
increases many will pay for coverage if Congress does not extend
subsidies that have made some plans more affordable.
The
annual enrollment period for Obamacare is expected to begin Nov. 1, but
the costs for some Americans are becoming publicly available piecemeal
through some state marketplaces. The federal website healthcare.gov,
which includes 28 other state marketplaces, is slated to post prices
before the end of October.
People
shopping for coverage can now preview the costs they face from
potentially expiring subsidies and sharply rising premiums in many
markets, including California, New York, Nevada, Maryland and Idaho.
Some consumers also found out that they would have fewer choices because
their insurers dropped out of some markets for 2026.
Based
on the newly posted information, a family of four making $130,000 in
Maine would face an increase of $16,100 in annual premiums next year
because they would no longer qualify for more generous subsidies, said
Gideon Lukens, a health policy researcher for the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities, which supports extending the subsidies.
Democrats in Congress are fighting to stop these increases. And people around the country are grasping that as well.
This is the unwinding for Chump. It may be for the GOP as well. They really need to figure out whether they're going to sink with Chump and his shutdown.
Friday, October 17, 2025. The Young Republican group chat was not children, it was adults speaking and their racist remarks are reflected in Donald Chump's policies.
Leaders
of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would
happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing
anyway.
They
referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and
mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They
talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded
Republicans who they believed support slavery.
William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair,
used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more
than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New
York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.”
Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote
in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the
gas chamber.”
Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of
the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s 15,000-member
political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.
“Im going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man. We only want true believers,” he continued.
The story remains in the news for several reasons including the fact that Vice President JD Vance thought this was another time he could lie. He's insisted that 'young boys' do things like this -- he's apparently unaware that women were involved as well -- and that this is going to impact his own sons because he's going to have to tell them not to put any statement like that ever on a digital exchange. He's not going to tell them don't say it, he's just going to say keep it off any digital exchange. We'll come back to him. David W. Chen and Megan Mineiro (NEW YORK TIMES) note:
The emergence of the texts and the disparate reactions to them among
Republicans revealed not only a split in the party but also, for some, a
comfort with rhetoric that once would have been routinely denounced. On
the far right, some suggested that any condemnation of the racist,
sexist and homophobic discourse was a betrayal of the conservative
cause.
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday continued to downplay the bigoted messages in a Young Republicans group chat,
[. . .]
Vance’s Thursday post marked the third time in two days that the vice president has waded into the firestorm over the trove of texts obtained by POLITICO and
shows how the Trump administration’s strategy, articulated in the Art
of the Deal, to never apologize and always hit back, extends well beyond
the White House walls.
Vance
has not defended the posts, which contained more than 250 racist,
homophobic and antisemitic slurs, though he did refer to them as “edgy, offensive jokes.”
The vice president has called the response to the posts “pearl
clutching” and said “kids do stupid things, especially young boys” even
though the chat group included men in their 20s and early 30s who hold
local, state and federal government posts.
Right there is another reason it remains a news story. The administration refuses to call out the speech. It tries to distract and divert.
Donald Chump is supposed to be the leader of the United States. If he can't condemn racism -- and he can't -- that's a new story -- especially with all ov his other racist activites.
It's also news because it signals -- yet again -- that JD Vance does not love his children or his wife. Indians were degraded in these texts. And JD is married to a woman whose family traces back to India. JD converted to Catholicism late in life to please his sugar daddy Peter Thiel. He did so despite having children and a wife who were not Catholic and who have not converted. What kind of a father, what kind of a husband does that? One who doesn't really love them.
That's reality and no one wants to say it because of they're afraid of being the first. It's Chump's orange skin all over again where, throughout his first term, the media pretended like he might have some medical condition. No, he just had women's make up.
When I looked at him the first time with that orange crap on his face, I thought of Bette Davis. She was nominated for an Academy Award for playing Baby Jane Hudson in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? and the look she came up with for the role was based on observations early in her career of extras who got painted up for a film and they wouldn't wash their faces. Each day, they'd apply more make up over it. They often didn't like the way they had looked prior but they thought the make up made them look better. So they'd just pile on more. Kind of like Chump who, in a rather well known incident on THE APPRENTICE, looked in the mirror and declared himself "pretty" after hair and make up finished with him. No, he wasn't "pretty," but that set him down the road he's on where he became the first US president to wear make up off camera repeatedly.
As for JD's eye liner, I have no idea on that. Figure that out on your own. But JD's attitude towards his own family is an embarrassment.
His children are Indian-American, his wife is Indian-American and in yet another incident where racists attack people from India, he is found defending those racists and not defending his children and his wife.
Everything is odd in Chump World but maybe TIME magazine can provide a little perspective. In a piece entitled "Top 10 Memorable Debate Moments," they include this:
Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis didn't exactly charm his way into
voters' hearts during the 1988 debates with his response about whether
he would support the death penalty should his wife, Kitty, be raped and
murdered. A longtime opponent of the death penalty, Dukakis responded to
the startling question from CNN's Bernard Shaw, "No, I don't, Bernard,
and I think you know that I've opposed the death penalty during all of
my life. I don't see any evidence that it's a deterrent and I think
there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime."
While some criticized the fairness of the question, to viewers the
answer seemed both dispassionate and dismissive. Years later, Dukakis
would recall his response, saying, "I have to tell you, and maybe I'm
just still missing it ... I didn't think it was that bad."
He gave a very calm response. And it didn't go over with Americans because we expect people to react when they're children and/or spouse are threatened.
This wasn’t a college group chat. Its members were leaders in
the Young Republican National Federation, which includes members up to
the age of 40. William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice
chair, used variations of the n-word. Peter Giunta, who was chief
of staff for a New York assemblyman until he was fired on Tuesday,
joked about murdering his opponents. Hendrix is 25. Giunta is 31. Vance,
for what it’s worth, is 41. Before being tapped as Donald Trump’s
running mate last year, he was also known to hang out
in group chats with other young Republicans, some younger even than
Hendrix. Is 41 too old to face consequences for your actions?
Vance’s
repeated insistence that young adults should never be held accountable
for using racial slurs is notable in and of itself. But his larger
refusal to condemn depraved allies or even to distance himself from them
is part of a larger trend. Most political norms—and the laws of
political gravity that helped keep them in place—are long gone, replaced
by an intense tribal loyalty that turns any scandal into an opportunity
for whataboutism. This, it seems, is an early preview of Trump’s
lasting political legacy: Republicans are no longer apologizing, nor are
they pushing out racist, bigoted allies when they inevitably find
themselves embroiled in controversy.
The vile
contents of this leaked group chat are, as many have pointed out, not
especially different from a great deal of what passes for discourse on
the MAGA right. What is most notable about it, as Andrew Egger wrote
in The Bulwark, is that the people involved are the product of a
post-Trump culture that rewards “the most amoral and psychotic political
strivers, and has held them up as a professional ideal for the young
people coming up behind them to copy and emulate. This is what they know
as the ticket to power.”
We might be giving Trump too much credit, however. The
radicalization of young Republicans predates his political rise in 2015.
The racist, pro-Nazi far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in
August 2017 that left one young woman dead was full of young Republican
leaders, many of whom had taken official positions before the start of
Trump’s presidential campaign. As my former colleague Alex Pareene wrote
in an extremely perceptive piece shortly after the Charlottesville
rally, “Racial resentment has been a driving force behind College
Republican recruitment for years, but at this point it’s really all they
have left to offer.” Trump was a catalyst of the Republican Party’s
transformation, but his rise was also a symptom of its radicalization
and turn toward resentment, in other words. But young Republicans’ Nazi
turn started long before his fateful trip down the Trump Tower escalator
in June 2015.
Where Trump was different—and one
reason why he is so uniquely beloved on the right—is that he provided a
permission structure for Republicans to be publicly cruel and hateful.
His rise came in no small part because he refused to be cowed or, for
that matter, to ever apologize. In 2016, he was openly misogynistic to Megyn Kelly (now a staunch supporter), racist toward Blacks and Latinos, and contemptuous of anyone who opposed him (including
war hero and former Republican presidential nominee John McCain). The
controversy this generated was a virtuous cycle for Trump. He would say
something inflammatory, pundits and politicians would criticize him, and
he would not only refuse to back down but mock them as well—a media
circus that sucked out all the oxygen from rivals and competitors.
And that is another reason this is a news story. The party of Abraham Lincoln now has a huge amount of members who live and breathe racism. They can't get through a day without expressing it and they can't see a future where racism isn't a major component. Harold Meyerson (THE AMERICAN PROSPECT) noted this week:
Today’s MAGA movement is nothing if not the ideological heir to those
Redeemers, as determined to reverse every last vestige of the Second
Reconstruction—the civil rights laws and values of the 1960s—as the
Redeemers were to extirpate the First.
Yesterday, the Republican justices on the Supreme Court made clear
their desire to redistrict Southern states in a way that would eliminate
the districts, and the possibility of districts, that send, and could
send, Black representatives to Congress. As my colleague David Dayen has pointed out,
the more immediate impulse behind the justices’ determination to
effectively revoke what remains of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is to
ensure that Republicans will pick up a dozen or more House seats through
the redistricting the Court will order. They clearly understand,
however, that that will mean effectively disfranchising Southern Black
citizens. To the extent that Chief Justice John Roberts has adduced a
reason for this epochal reversal, it’s that the white racism that the
Act’s supporters were combating in 1965 is now, 60 years later, a thing
of the past.
But the actually existing Republican Party that the justices mean to
keep in power is a veritable storehouse of white racism, reviving and
initiating policies for which white racial bigotry is the only plausible
explanation. The Trump administration has already made that clear by
stipulating that the only foreign refugees it welcomes to our shores are
a subset of South African whites, concerned that that nation’s elected
leaders (predominantly Black) may use eminent domain powers to repurpose
some land for public purposes. By contrast, refugees fleeing for their
lives from the Taliban, the ayatollahs, or Central American gangs have
had, and will have, America’s doors slammed in their face.
Yesterday, the Times reported
that the Departments of State and Homeland Security had sent proposals
to the White House for new refugee rules that would favor Europeans
seeking to leave their homelands because they’d been “targeted for
peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration
or support for ‘populist’ political parties.” In other words, reducing
our refugee policy exclusively to an ingathering of white Europe’s
far-right and neo-fascists.
Trump’s administration and the Court’s Republicans still occasionally
cling to the contention that they are simply reverting to policies of
racial neutrality by striking down DEI and affirmative action policies.
Trump’s actions, however, belie that argument with each passing day. He
has fired, or tried to fire, Black, and female, leaders of prominent
institutions—the armed services, regulatory agencies, the Federal
Reserve—on either the slimmest pretexts or for no stated reason at all,
while populating his administration with very disproportionately white
male appointees, as if matching the demographic composition of the
Eisenhower administration was his desired goal.
I read a group email from Capitol Hill yesterday essentially predicting
the extinction of the Democratic Party after what is predicted to be a
decision from the Supreme Court overturning what remains of the Voting
Rights Act. A less apocalyptic but still daunting version of this
argument appeared in an evening piece published by Nate Cohn
in the Times. Before getting to the partisan and vote count
implications, let’s first discuss what this means, which is essentially
ending African-American political representation in the states of the
old Confederacy. Most if not all majority-minority districts disappear
and Republican state legislatures are free to draw up districts which
spread/dilute African-American voters into safely Republican districts.
Cohn thinks it’s plausible that Democrats could permanently lose (as
much as anything can ever be permanent) 12 House seats. And this is on
top of the strong-arm restricting happening in a number of states across
the country. The overall scenario is one in which the House becomes an
even bigger electoral challenge than the Senate, one that is possible to
win but only in a generational wave style election.
Racism is not a manufacturing flaw for today's Republican Party, it's a built-in feature, planned, intended, installed.
Now not all. Mike noted last night how Senator Markwayne Mullin (a Republican) has denounced the Telegram exchange. But Mullin's common sense approach does not represent all of the Republican Party and certainly not the majority of them on social media.
Explicitly racist language and symbolism is becoming increasingly common in Republican spaces.
Just this week, an image of an American flag with a Nazi swastika embedded in the stripes
was spotted during a Zoom call behind Angelo Elia, the legislative
correspondent to Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio). Congressman Taylor claims he
asked Capitol Police to investigate how the flag was placed in his
office, but given the placement of the symbol, it’s unlikely that Taylor or his staffers wouldn’t have noticed it before the Zoom call.
These adults in the chat demonized others and that's what Chump does. To destroy special education? You have to demonize. To destroy healthcare? You have to demonize. Every policy he's for is built around the premise that someone unworthy is getting something and you're not. It's grudge f**k politics and that's all these professional victims in MAGA can do, pretend that they're wronged and others are in a line that's moving while they're being left behind.
As we did in yesterday's snapshot, we're noting some video coverage of this issue with the hope that any drive-by reader (as opposed to a community member) who might not get what's going on will better understand it coming from someone other than me.
Fifteen minutes east of Senator Bernie Sanders’s headquarters in
Burlington, Vermont, sit the nerve centers of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s national efforts to target immigrants for deportation. Two
of ICE’s three main targeting facilities,
in addition to its tip line, are located in the hamlet of Williston,
which has seen mounting protests in recent weeks over plans to hire
round-the-clock analysts to aid the Trump administration’s deportation
goals.
The targeting centers are fueling an unprecedented immigration
crackdown across the country, one that has drawn widespread condemnation
from politicians and citizens alike. Harrowing videos have captured
masked ICE officers arresting U.S. citizens, shooting at clergy, and threatening first responders with lethal force. And while ICE has abandoned some of its focused targeting practices in favor of broad sweeps, the targeting that remains is driven by two offices in Williston.
One of these facilities is the National Criminal Analysis and
Targeting Center, or NCATC, which serves as the nexus for intelligence
that is sent to ICE’s 25 enforcement and removal operations, or ERO,
field offices across the country. The intelligence packaged by the NCATC
for ERO “door kickers” includes
biographical information, criminal history, immigration history,
custody data, immigration benefit information, naturalization
information, and vehicle and insurance data. Thanks to a memorandum of understanding
signed in April by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, it now also
includes IRS data, the legality of which is being contested in court.
Chump's war on immigrants continues across the United States but especially in Illinois. Too bad for him, Governor JD Pritzker is not intimidated by Chump.
If there’s one thing President Donald Trump and the people
of Chicago might agree on, it’s that America’s third-largest city is
currently a “war zone.”
But for most Chicagoans, it’s the Trump administration that has made it so, with its military-style “Operation Midway Blitz,” led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and “Operation
At Large,” which Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched in Los
Angeles and brought to the Windy City in September.
“I have lived here for 28 years and I have never felt so profoundly unsafe until this week,” one resident recently posted on social media. “And
it’s not because of gangs or crime or unhoused people or drug users or
migrants. I feel unsafe because there are militarized units with loaded
guns in the school parking lots of my district, kidnapping
my neighbors.”
The statement echoes a citywide sentiment. Over the last
five weeks in Chicago, federal agents have shot at least two people,
killing one (Silverio Villegas González, a father of two who had just
dropped one of his children off at school when ICE agents shot him);
descended on an apartment building with a Black Hawk helicopter and used
flash-bang grenades; tear-gassed protesters and first responders;
smoke-bombed a street full of people; reportedly
zip-tied children and separated them from their parents for several
hours in the middle of the night; shot protesters with rubber bullets;
handcuffed a city council member in a hospital; and fired a chemical
weapon at a TV reporter as she was driving away, burning her face.
In one of the more shocking moments in this mayhem, on September 19,
agents perched on the roof of an ICE detention center in the suburban
village of Broadview shot the Rev. David Black, lead pastor at the First
Presbyterian Church of Chicago, in the head and body with pepper-spray
projectiles known as pepper balls. Just moments earlier, Black, dressed
in his clerical garb, had both arms up in the air and was “praying, verbally, for the ICE officers and those detained inside,” as he later recalled to CNN.
Other protesters were shot with pepper balls during the
incident. They were chanting, singing and praying — peacefully, Black
stressed. “We could hear [the agents] laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” he told CNN. “It was deeply disturbing.”
Meanwhile, self-deluded MAGA types keep telling themselves that Chump's only targeting violent criminals -- you know, people like Radule Bojovic. Who? One of the latest targeted by ICE. A police officer. Luke Barr and Meredith Deliso (ABC NEWS) report:
U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a suburban Chicago
police officer who is accused of being in the country illegally,
according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Radule Bojovic, a native of Montenegro, was working as a sworn officer for the Hanover Park Police Department, according to DHS.
He
was "encountered during a targeted enforcement action" as part of
"Operation Midway Blitz," a surge of immigration enforcement in Illinois
that began last month, DHS said in a press release Thursday announcing
the arrest.
[. . .]
The Village of Hanover Park said its police department hired Bojovic in
January "in full compliance with federal and state law" and that the
village "confirmed that he was legally authorized by the federal
government to work in the United States."
Queer and trans immigrants at a detention facility in south Louisiana
have alleged that they faced sexual harassment and abuse, medical
neglect and coerced labor by staff at the facility, and that they were
repeatedly ignored or faced retaliation for speaking out.
In
multiple legal complaints, immigrants detained at the South Louisiana
Ice Processing Center (SLIPC) in Basile, Louisiana, said they were
recruited into an unsanctioned work program that forced them to perform
hard manual labor for as little as $1 per day. Detainees also alleged
that queer people were targeted by an assistant warden who stalked,
harassed and sexually assaulted them.
Three
current and former detainees who spoke to the Guardian said that,
between 2023 and 2025, they endured months of abuse from an assistant
warden named Manuel Reyes and his associates. In their complaints to the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (Ice), the detainees also said that they faced retaliation
for reporting the abuse to authorities, alleging that Reyes and other
staff beat them and denied them medical treatment.
Let's wind down with this from THE BLACK COMMENTATOR.
