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Trump just delivered the most chilling speech of his presidency (Cue spooky music)
Vox ^ | July 28, 2017 | Dara Lind

Posted on 07/28/2017 2:15:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The president of the United States is explicitly encouraging police violence.

In a speech to law enforcement officials in Long Island on Friday, the president of the United States delivered a clear and chilling message: He thinks that unauthorized immigrants are subhuman, and that law enforcement should treat them accordingly.

The ostensible villains of Trump’s speech: the transnational criminal gang MS-13, which started in California but has taken root in El Salvador and whose members have been fingered in a string of high-profile killings in Long Island. Trump described MS-13 members as “animals” who “have transformed peaceful parks and beautiful, quiet neighborhoods into bloodstained killing fields.”

But the president has never been particularly scrupulous about differentiating “good” and “bad” immigrants. The lurid details of MS-13 crimes ended up underpinning a theme Trump has used before — that the US is “besieged” by migration (largely, in reality, of children and families) out of Central America:

You say what happened to the old days where people came into this country, they worked and they worked and they worked and they had families and they paid taxes and they did all sorts of things, and their families got stronger and they were closely knit. We don't see that. Failure to enforce our immigration laws had predictable results. Drugs, gangs, and violence.

Of course, Trump claims that thanks to his administration — one of whose first priorities was to “unshackle” immigration field agents to give them more latitude in going after unauthorized immigrants — the rule of law is being restored.

But Trump’s idea of the “rule of law” is mostly about looking and acting, in his own words, mean.

Just like it’s important to have “a rich guy at the head of commerce,” he said, it’s important to have “rough guys” as ICE agents:

I saw some photos where Tom [Homan, the acting head of ICE]’s guys, rough guys, they're rough, I don't want to be — I don't want to be, you know, say it because they'll say that's not politically correct, you're not allowed to have rough people doing this kind of work

At one point, Trump literally instructed the assembled police officers not to protect the heads of suspects who were under arrest and were being loaded into police cars:

When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, I said, please don't be too nice. Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over. Like, don't hit their head and they've just killed somebody. Don't hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, okay?

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It’s the closest Trump has come since inauguration to his infamous calls for violence against protesters at campaign rallies during the presidential primary. The themes aren’t new — they’re literally the oldest trick in Trump’s book — but they’re increasingly explicit. That’s a very bad sign.

Demonizing immigrants brought Trump to victory. Now it’s the theme he returns to whenever he’s struggling.

Back in 2015, Donald Trump launched his journey toward the presidency by winning surprising support for a single, powerful theme: Unauthorized immigrants are dangerous criminals who are invading America and coming for your family.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: aliensillegals; immigration; lawenforcement; ms13; newyork; police; trump
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A couple more check marks and he'll be handily re-elected. Was Dara not alive in 1972 or 1984?
1 posted on 07/28/2017 2:15:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Forgive me if I read wrong but how the heck does calling MS13 animals equate to thinking all immigrants are subhuman, and again thinking that Illegals are immigrants in the legal since.


2 posted on 07/28/2017 2:20:41 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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“Demonizing immigrants brought Trump to victory.”

Liar.


3 posted on 07/28/2017 2:21:41 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is such pure Leftard idiocy. They truly are desperate.


4 posted on 07/28/2017 2:21:44 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Would you like some more pancakes?"


5 posted on 07/28/2017 2:22:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pardon me if I approve of going after MS-13 but that I do not approve of giving militarized and already out-of-control cops carte blanche to break the law so long as they can say it has to do with MS-13.


6 posted on 07/28/2017 2:22:36 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dara Lind is off my Christmas list.


7 posted on 07/28/2017 2:23:25 PM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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Article author Dara Lind

Sometimes when I'm feeling adventurous, I even leave Manhattan..!!! Once I saw a FARM, isn't that hilarious..?!

8 posted on 07/28/2017 2:23:37 PM PDT by gaijin
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MS-13 members are animals...that is an insult to animals.

They are devils, demons...

9 posted on 07/28/2017 2:23:43 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

VOX is well left of center. Check them out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Media


10 posted on 07/28/2017 2:24:19 PM PDT by GunsareOK
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She got her BA from Yale in 2009, so she was probably born around 1987+/-.


11 posted on 07/28/2017 2:24:45 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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“paddy wagon”??? Lind is a racist. /s


12 posted on 07/28/2017 2:25:01 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP - VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS)
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Looks like it just got thrown out of the army.


13 posted on 07/28/2017 2:25:33 PM PDT by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reinvent is hone as well


14 posted on 07/28/2017 2:26:00 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: the_individual2014

Tattoo parlors will be going out of business.

The gangers must be up-rooted.


15 posted on 07/28/2017 2:26:05 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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This is face splitting grin stuff. I can't think of any group less amenable to drumming up sympathy for but still the left tries.

This group of subhuman animals who rape for control, mutilate as a show of force and maim for fun are going to get their feelings hurt by being called animals.

The only thing wrong is the offense against animals who are never as cruel & viscous as these gang members. It will be fun watching the left cozy up to M13 and some of the left will have the experience of a lifetime along the way rather than the kumbaya moment their are picturing. Darwin effect...

http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/27/german-woman-offers-migrant-a-room-in-her-house-migrant-sexually-abuses-her/ http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/739620/Maria-Ladenburger-murder-EU-official-daughter-killed-by-refugee-Aghan

16 posted on 07/28/2017 2:26:09 PM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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This is face splitting grin stuff. I can't think of any group less amenable to drumming up sympathy for but still the left tries.

This group of subhuman animals who rape for control, mutilate as a show of force and maim for fun are going to get their feelings hurt by being called animals.

The only thing wrong is the offense against animals who are never as cruel & viscous as these gang members. It will be fun watching the left cozy up to M13 and some of the left will have the experience of a lifetime along the way rather than the kumbaya moment their are picturing. Darwin effect...

http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/27/german-woman-offers-migrant-a-room-in-her-house-migrant-sexually-abuses-her/ http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/739620/Maria-Ladenburger-murder-EU-official-daughter-killed-by-refugee-Aghan

17 posted on 07/28/2017 2:26:11 PM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: gaijin

That’s a man, baby ...


18 posted on 07/28/2017 2:27:57 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (FREEP U, Schmucky O'Putz!)
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To: shibumi

They used to teach logic there. When did they stop?


19 posted on 07/28/2017 2:28:15 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: shibumi

They used to teach logic there. When did they stop?


20 posted on 07/28/2017 2:28:20 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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