1/9 Make no mistake: these barbaric actions are a part of Trump's America.
Before leaving office, Trump's DHS cronies cut special deals with multiple states, including Texas, to continue their abhorrent anti-immigration policies.
2/9 Trump's DHS, 12 days before President Biden was sworn in, struck a “binding” deal with Texas agreeing to consult with the state for 180 days before making changes to immigration policy, effectively tying the hands of the new administration.
3/9 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) & the Customs and Border Protections (CBP) officers unions, were actively involved in shaping immigration under former President Trump and continue to undermine the Biden administration’s immigration policies. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
4/9 The DHS has already pledged to "swiftly" conduct an investigation into the "extremely troubling" footage of Border Patrol agents on horseback aggressively dispersing Haitian migrants, saying the internal probe could lead to disciplinary actions. cbsnews.com/news/border-ag…
5/9 Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also directed department personnel to deploy to Del Rio, Texas to ensure that border officials there carry out their duties "consistent with applicable policies and training and the Department's values." theguardian.com/us-news/2021/s…
6/9 The expulsion of these Haitian asylum seekers, fleeing a nation facing massive political upheaval and two recent major natural disasters, has rightly been met with criticism aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/20…
7/9 The deportation flights the U.S. has been running have also met with justified criticism, as they violate our rules on the handling of refugees. cbsnews.com/news/haitian-t…
8/9 But this torturous treatment of Haitian migrants can be laid squarely at the feet of the very Trumpian Texas wing of the CBP, which literally sponsors border patrol-themed rodeos and allows rodeo riders to ride along to hunt and harass migrants. actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop…
9/9 The partnership between the CBP and the PBR, Professional Bull Riders, actually began in 2008 and ended in 2011. It was renewed in large part because of Trump, and has been the source of numerous outrages, including one bull rider lassoing a migrant.
ICE and the CBP are effectively rogue agencies, directly and actively flouting the efforts of the Biden Administration to effect change, with the aid of red states like Texas.
Since several people have brought it up, I am all too aware that this cruelty is a problem that has dwelled within ICE and the CBP for a long time; Trump didn't create it, he just supercharged and emboldened them so that they can openly defy their own government.
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These are threads looking at the debacle that was the 2020 election and all the ways the Trump regime attempted to cheat, up to and including actual insurrection and a continuing Big Lie that has become the new core of the GQP.
First up is a thread on the attack on the US Postal Service, when mail-in ballots became essential during a pandemic. This thread morphed into a general thread about Trumpian claims of voter fraud, and its efforts to change the outcome:
This hub is for threads focused on Trump's grifting, personal finances, and his consistent LIE of being a self-made man when in fact he's lied and cheated every step of the way, starting with the thread that began this section.
I make GIFs, infographics, memes, videos, & maintain large threads fighting the horrors of the Trump regime & the GQP's insurrection; further links in thread.
New threads for a new era. I maintain a number of threads, some re-constituted from my first account. Many of these I store and organize in various hubs.
This is my thread on Trump regime atrocities renewed and better organized into sub-threads:
Trump claimed he loves the military, but like most dictators what he really liked is throwing their weight around & using them to make himself look good.
This series of threads & articles shows how Trump REALLY feels about our military & veterans:
1/5 There's been a new development in the case of Steve Carillo, a former US Air Force counter-terrorism expert turned Boogaloo Boi terrorist, who lead two ambushes last May where he murdered a deputy sheriff & a federal officer.
2/5 This is the same Steve Carillo, by the way, whom Mike Pence failed to mention during a gaslighting speech where he name-dropped one of Dave Patrick Underwood's victims and insinuated he was killed by leftists.
Four MORE Boogaloo Boi Trump terrorists have now been indicted for attempting to obstruct the investigation into Carillo and his accomplice and the first of Carillo's two attacks, in Oakland, where Dave Patrick Underwood died. reuters.com/article/us-usa…