Part of the problem with this immigration shit is that its been ramped up to the Nth degree, but it isn’t strictly speaking new.

Bush Jr openly bragged about raiding offices and factories to round up migrants, often leveraging his illegal spying and War on Terror executive powers to facilitate the mass arrests.

Obama - famously - promoted his record as the Deporter In Chief with 2.5 million people exiled through immigration orders, often on the same kind of paper-thin charges Trump is using in his current pogroms.

You can run this back to the Eisenhower Administration and Operation Wetback.

Or further, if you’re so inclined. What was Japanese Internment, if not a war on migrants? What was the Coolidge Era Asian Exclusion Act of 1924 or the The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

The Masked Gunmen have always been with us. The horror of mass arrests and lawless deportations has always been with us. Trump’s only the latest and most vulgar incarnation of a very bipartisan and very fascist undercurrent in US labor and trade relations with the rest of the world.

I don’t know that killing anyone is a good thing. However, I do believe that religion, in general, is bad. I don’t mind that religion is a thing, but it definitely needs to be treated like any other business and not have any privileges.

Shooting priests is, actually, a good thing.

On December 2, 1980, four bodies were unearthed in the Salvadoran countryside. The corpses, some of which bore signs of rape, were found in what Eileen Markey describes as a “hastily dug grave at the edge of the Cold War.” The four were soon identified as North American churchwomen, assassinated by US-trained Salvadoran death squads: Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel, Jean Donovan, and Maura Clarke, the latter the subject of Markey’s biography A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura.

The women’s murders were brutal, but they also seem uncannily banal amid the omnipresent violence in the El Salvador on the eve of what would be a twelve-year civil war. Still, their slaughter drew international outcry, causing great discomfort for the incoming Reagan administration as it sought to scale up political and military support for the Salvadoran military dictatorship.

The US-backed regime was at war with a growing leftist insurgency born out of frustrated peaceful movements for democratic reforms and an end to the semi-feudal and oligarchic distribution of wealth and power in the country. In a bid to stave off any revolutionary aspirations sparked by Cuba in 1959 and enflamed by Nicaragua in 1979, the United States pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the bloodthirsty Salvadoran military as its forces massacred entire villages; murdered and disappeared tens of thousands of civilians; and assassinated opposition politicians, labor leaders, priests, and even, as Markey’s book vividly recalls, US-born nuns.

After the murders, Reagan’s UN ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick callously declared that “those nuns were not just nuns.” Her comments, intended to suggest that Maura, Ita, Dorothy and Jean somehow deserved their fate, sparked outrage.

But Markey’s account of one of those nun’s lives reveals that in some ways, Kirkpatrick was not wrong: they were much more than “just nuns.” These were fiercely courageous women who risked their lives to support the most vulnerable victims of US foreign policy in their struggle for dignity and self-determination. And they did so in the name of their Catholic faith.

Uhm, akshually, i don’t like this group, so they should be shot :)