2026-08-24 04:15 UTC
…from coast to coast, masked agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement seemed to be everywhere, and a new phenomenon emerged: Unsuspecting targets were being snatched from sidewalks and during traffic stops… It was a spectacle, captured on video, and that was key to the strategy. Viral videos made for viral fear…
—M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
#trump #ice
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@janhoglund@mastodon.nu 2026-08-24 04:20
…the agency developed a fearsome persona—armed, masked, and menacing—and began to post daily arrest numbers. Stephen Miller was applying immense pressure on the agency to keep up the pace of mass deportation and hit a 3,000 daily-arrests target. …Miller made no apologies for the pressure, telling officials that the President had campaigned on the largest deportation operation ever… —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #trump #stephenmiller #ice