If you're a criminal, you'll be deported. If you plan to enter the U.S. illegally, your chances

of getting caught and sent back just went up. The actions I'm taking are not only lawful,

they're the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single

Democratic president for the past half century.

Yeah, so take that, everybody. If there's one thing we know about laws, is that they're always correct. And that was, of course, if you're just listening to the audio platform, you may have

recognized the voice of former President Barack Obama during a press conference on November 20th, 2014.

ICE funding increased 24% under the Obama administration and reached historically high levels under Biden.

In fiscal year, 2024, Congress appropriated more than 9.1 billion to ICE. Democrats did not abolish ICE. They expanded ICE's funding,

yet another example of how Democrats don't actually fight against Republicans. They collude with

Republicans to serve the rich, the war machine, and the fascist police state. That's just my

personal opinion on the overarching theme here. And as is further advanced, you know,

by their lockstep policies over the horrors being perpetrated in Palestine, it's all part

of the same imperial system. And if we accept the premise that fascism is imperialism turned

inward, i.e. the same forms of violence and repression, surveillance, and exploitation used

in the colonies rebound through imperial feedback to the citizens of the Imperial Corps. And it's crazy,

I'm right here in D.C. and you may hear sirens blaring down the street. It's been happening

more and more recently. So tonight on State of Play on Mint Press News, also posting this on my own personal

colonial outcast podcast platform to expand the exposure because, of course, we're all so shadow

ban these days.

We're having a two-part ice episode.

Part one, which you're currently watching, is what is happening on the ground, how ice

operates, how local and federal police

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