The president-elect of the United States and his allies intend to take Springfield’s racist terrorist campaign nationwide
donald trump returns to the role of US president this month with a promise to begin the “largest” mass deportation operation in American history and says he intends to free up the country’s military to help him do so. But according to three sources close to the internal political discussions of the TrumpThe president-elect and several key advisors are aware that the desired large-scale repression – which could involve a new network of militarized “camps” – will take a long time to implement.
Nonetheless, Trump and the new anti-immigration team have plans to fill the gaps, in part by relying heavily on generating relentless propaganda and (as one US transition official put it) Trump) in the “media spectacle” that many of them hope will cause undocumented immigrants to flee the country and persuade migrants not to come to the country.
The racist terror campaign that Team Trump unleashed on the Haitian community of Springfield, Ohio, will likely serve as a model for what is to come White House From Trump has reserved for immigrants throughout the United States. And it’s a model that immigration advocates and non-profit organizations are preparing to combat and counter such a widespread “media spectacle” and a potential wave of misinformation that may well be part of the work of Trump in its crackdown on immigration.
For weeks, the new “border czar” of Trump, Tom Homannand other advisers to the president-elect, have told anyone willing to listen that the start of the new administration will be marked by a “shock and awe” show of force toward migrants and undocumented immigrants. The administration Trump is obviously ready to start imposing and resetting and doing the things that the administration Biden it’s not like that. However, much of what the country will likely see happen at the start of Trump’s second presidency will be very similar to the implementation of policies or practices currently in place.
For example, below Joe Biden and other presidents, the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the United States) made arrests of undocumented people accused or accused of violent crimes in US-controlled sanctuary states and cities Democrats. Such arrests are generally not controversial, as few liberals actually oppose such arrests. You can find evidence of such arrests in news reports or in regular administration press releases Biden.
The difference is: the president Biden he doesn’t normally go out in public and scream about how “tough” he is – and how these arrests should serve as a wake-up call to the millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States, their families, those with protected legal status, and anyone else who feels compelled to make a similar trip to the United States. Trumpon the other hand, he will not be shy in wielding this propaganda megaphone, even if it is to highlight arrests or attacks that differ little from what is already standard operating procedure.
According to the three sources there have been recent internal debates within the future government Trumpeven with the president-elect himself, not only to launch high-profile attacks in major cities at the very beginning of his second term, but to inject these attacks into the media ecosystem and social media bloodstream as aggressively as possible.
These ideas included promoting user-friendly means of communication, such as Fox Newsto generate journalistic images of the actions; sending of film crews by the administration itself; coordinate and disseminate videos, photos and advertisements to key influencers on the most popular social media sites; have the billionaire backer of Trump, Elon Muskbrandishing the platform X (previously Twitter) create a cycle of right-wing propaganda and highlight these law enforcement operations; and, of course, we leave Trump boast about these operations on television and on the internet.
One of the main goals of this, sources say Rolling Stone USAis to create a huge chilling effect that will frighten undocumented immigrants and their families (even if they have children born in the country) and push them to pre-emptively flee or “self-deport”, for fear that the forces of Trump knock on the door at any time – or perhaps their family will be separated. Another intended effect of this “shock and awe” style of propaganda, long before Trump and the Republicans can attempt to implement large-scale crackdown plans, is to frighten migrants and others from even attempting to come to the United States.
Another possible net benefit for them and for Trumpthe sources add, is that doing so in sanctuary cities or Democratic strongholds across the country will create the early confrontation they want with liberal mayors and governors in those states. It is the desire to Trumpland and the Republican elite that this highly nativist propaganda and public relations campaign traps Democrats, meaning that Democratic politicians who have promised to resist the Democrats’ onslaught Trump they may appear weak if they do not resist.
But if liberal mayors – in Chicago, for example – and governors fought this point, they could be seen as opposing more selective types of detention with which they have no real problem, thus fueling the lies and slanders of Trump that Democrats are not in favor of punishing, for example, actual members of violent gangs who come from foreign countries.
These are goals that immigration groups and advocates are prepared to fight vigorously with educational campaigns and their own messaging – even though they know it will be, to put it mildly, an uphill battle against the weight of the situation. State, Trump, Moss and conservative and other mainstream media.
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trumpthe vice president-elect JD Vance and team had already started to create this scary effect fueled by propaganda and social media and, in some cases, had achieved tangible and real results months before winning the elections.
In the final months of the 2024 presidential race between Trump and vice president Kamala Harristhe team Trump and prominent conservatives have engaged in a sustained, racist, and lie-based blitz against the community of Haitian immigrants living and working legally in the city of Springfield, Ohio. The lies of Trump AND Vancespread across social media and more mainstream media, it helped create a wave of bomb threats, evacuations and a palpable feeling of terror in small-town America. At the time, some Haitians wondered whether they should flee. Some packed their bags and left Springfieldworried about their safety and that of their children.
After Trump won in early November, things only got worse for Springfield’s Haitians. “People are really scared. I think a lot of Haitians are worried that their rights are being violated,” he said Katie Kershan immigration lawyer in Dayton, Ohio, who conducts legal clinics for Haitian immigrants in Springfield.
We’re trying to make sure people understand their rights and calm their fears of finding themselves on a plane back to Haiti on January 21, which is not how the law works.
He added: “This will be a time when people’s rights to a fair trial will be threatened and it is important that as a country we support and defend these people in every way we can. In my conversations with the dozens of people we see in clinics every week , and with leaders of the Haitian community and people coming to ask me questions, it seems like a lot of immigrants… feel like the country doesn’t want them here. People who care about what’s going on need to show up for these individuals, even other than your immediate community, from show that this is not the case.”
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Source: Terra
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