We know that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but have you seen where proceeding with bad intentions is taking us? Donald Trump started out his vendetta against illegal immigrants because it maddened him that Barack Obama deported so many of them. Obama didn’t toot his horn about his achievements, he just did his job. But Trump started out of the gate sensationalizing what was business as usual in previous administration. And no matter what good illegal immigrants do, how they’re essential to the economy, he’s having so much fun with a scapegoat that he expands way beyond immigrants and is victimizing everybody. MSNBC:
President Donald Trump sought to use Los Angeles as a test case for his most dramatic efforts to date to fulfill his campaign promise to carry out the largest deportation in U.S. history. The results show he may have overplayed his hand.
After immigration officials carried out a series of sweeps in Los Angeles, crowds began to gather, leading to protests and, in some cases, clashes with police. Trump sent in the National Guard over the objection of the governor, then the Marines. A California senator was removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press event when he tried to ask questions.
So what did Americans think of all this? Roughly half said Trump has “gone too far” with the arrests of immigrants and disapprove of his handling of the protests, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Well, now, roughly half. That would be those of us with a brain. We refuse to follow the orange-skinned, overweight, blustering Pied Piper. He keeps showing how ill-suited he is to be a president even more this time around. People *can* think, and he keeps forgetting that. Not everyone thinks he’s God. The man WHO PAINTS HIS FACE ORANGE keeps stumbling. Well, we *can* see and we *have* noticed!
True to form, Trump is now doubling down. In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, he wrote that he will be directing ICE to “expand efforts to detain and deport” undocumented immigrants in “America’s largest cities,” specifically naming Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City.
Even if Trump wanted to carry out mass deportations at the scale he’s promised, the logistics are nearly impossible. At its peak, during the Obama administration, removals hit around 400,000 people per year. According to government officials, around 207,000 people have been deported so far in 2025. Under Trump’s first term, he never surpassed those Obama numbers. Deporting 10 million to 15 million people, as Trump has suggested, would require a sustained removal rate far beyond what any administration has ever achieved.
There are also hard limits on what ICE can do. The agency has just more than 6,000 deportation officers nationwide, with only a fraction focused on interior enforcement. Immigration courts, meanwhile, are struggling to cope with more than 3.5 million pending cases. Even basic removals often take years to process due to backlog, appeals, and lack of legal representation.
How does he expect to throw out 10 to 15 million people, indeed? That’s a substantial number. They aren’t even close to *one* million, let alone ten or 12 million. I guess you could say this is overpromised and underaccomplished. If he can manage ten to fifteen million, I’ll eat my favorite hat with butter, lots of butter, and a touch of salt. It’s not physically possible. He can’t pull in more agents because they literally aren’t there. Training new agents to help, ooofffff that’s going to take too long, plus, y’know, logistics.
Calling this a battle for the country’s future is not an exaggeration. It is, quite literally, a fight between an imagined American past and an emerging reality.
Trump can continue to stage raids and issue executive orders, but the system cannot sustain the promises he’s making. The courts are beginning to push back and, for now, they appear to be holding. The demographic future of the country is not on his side.
What we are witnessing is not dominance or campaign promises being fulfilled. It might be a case of political panic, and that is never a good thing.
Lawdy, Trump in a panic is definitely NOT a good thing. What insane idea will he try next? And how does he think it will go over to the American public? The people have woken up. The people are pushing back. The people will show Trump what he needs to know. This will not be pretty. Wait and see. Thanks for sticking with me!
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No Kings protest July 17th!
In my opinion, the best day for another No Kings protest would be July 4th. The very day celebrated in this country as the day we announced we would no longer accept rule by a king though a very noteworthy document (and usually acknowledged as the country’s more-or-less official “date of birth”).
now that would be so cool
actually I got it wrong it’s good trouble lives on protest.
What is the significance of July 17? Bastille Day is July 14. Is that what you had in mind?
July 19th is the Federal Holiday Juneteenth! That could be cool but not much time to organize and also wouldn’t want to away from the meaning of the holiday or of the cultural significance of the day. …oops I meant June 19!