Republicans on the US House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee universally voted against an amendment on Wednesday that would have prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from using federal funds to detain or deport US citizens.
Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal from Washington proposed the amendment to a budget bill, which was approved in the House of Representatives on April 10. She stated that since President Donald Trump began his second term, “a troubling pattern has emerged with US citizens being detained by immigration authorities,” citing numerous examples over the past few months. Jayapal described this trend as “unconstitutional, dangerous, and fundamentally wrong.”
And the decline of America into a fascist hell continues unabated.
Y’know, I’ve been wondering if America will balkanize in the next few decades. I don’t know if it would be better or worse if it does.
Depends.
Clearly it would be better for the blue states to break away. Blue states have most of the money, people, and innovation.
But that would clearly drive the red states to start a war to keep the blue states under their control. Blue states would probably win because that’s where all the brains, money, and people are, but still, war. So that’s not great.
Personally, I’m getting to the point where I don’t care about the bloodshed. It’s a question of whether we’re going to let the dumber parts of America sink the whole ship or peel away and save ourselves.
Honestly yes. I would enlist if it meant my blue state could secede from this shithole of a country.
The amendment text hasn’t been published yet, but here is a different one:
SA 2221: Senator Tom Cotton [R-AR] – an amendment forbidding any bill providing funding for the International Criminal Court if the UN passes a resolution to investigate if Israel (or any employee) participated in the October 7 attacks.
(ed. note - lol wut?)
Fascism.
Buy a gun and start training with your friends and family.
How do you deport a citizen? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
It’s a synonym for “kidnapping” or “false imprisonment”
Thank your local magats for subjecting us all to this by beating them down in the streets
I prefer my fascists in a very particular way.
C/Republicans mod twisting thoughts to make this make sense as we speak.
It’s one of those things where when shit goes sideways and an opposing group calls to deport every member who voted to block citizens being deported they’ll scream “hypocrisy” never acknowledging their own fault in the matter.
Hypocrisy doesn’t bother reactionaries. On the contrary— they love showing that the rules don’t apply to them.
Their entire goal is to set themselves above the undesirables in society and get extra privileges and rights.
Diaper donny: nice try, imma do it anyway, see precedent.
