America Is Now a Police State

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Jonathan Alter, Washington Monthly: If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And if you have $75 billion over four years in new funding for ICE, you ...

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"While most people spent the budget fight fixated on health care policy, I suspect that in a year we will consider this legislation to be the moment that Trump created his own internal security apparatus."

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... if you have $75 billion over four years in new funding for ICE ...

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... The images of masked, heavily armed immigration agents snatching people off the streets and taking them away in unmarked cars have shocked many Americans " and led to a simple question: Is all of this legal?

It is " at least for now.

Why it matters: Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was created after the 9/11 attacks, its agents have operated with vastly more enforcement power, less transparency and fewer guardrails than local police. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 12:33 PM | Reply

"Police states are good, actually, because..." - MAGA

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-15 12:34 PM | Reply

@#1