February 19 On Friday the Associated Press (A.P.) reported the draft of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal to use up to 100,000 National Guard troops in 11 states as immigration agents in rounding up and deporting untold thousands of immigrants. The report was issued by the office of John Kelly, DHS director, and stated it was intended to implement Trump’s executive order on “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvement”. Spokespeople for the Trump/Pence regime first denied the A.P. story. Then they claimed it was an early draft. They gave no explanation for why the proposal had supposedly been rejected for now. No regime official ruled out the future use of the National Guard to round up immigrants.
Millions of people in the crosshairs of midnight raids; deportations that tear apart families; checkpoints staffed by armed military personnel popping up in barrios of cities and towns in the Southwest; soldiers boarding busses and trains to check for papers, and providing immediate punishment to those who don’t provide. This is part of the nightmare of the fascist America Trump is trying to consolidate. It is utterly unacceptable. For the future of humanity, we, the people, must drive this regime out.