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You say the cruelty is the point.
Donald Trump was the joy of Florida’s new deportee camp.
The immediately mentioned “Alligator Alcatraz” is “so professional, so well done,” he said. “We will teach you how to run away from an alligator when you escape prison.” So that there is uncertainty, the White House posted a picture of Trump, which was flanked by alligators, the caps with the ice (immigration and customs authority) logo, which explains: “Make America safe again!”
The shifting of the nation of immigrants for mass discovery is one of the most expected twists in the history of US history. Trump has compared migrants without papers with animals for years. During the 2024 campaign, he even claimed that the Haitians living in a small town in Ohio eat the pets of other people. Now he is planning a nationwide apparatus of camps, with which 116,000 deportees can be arrested at the same time and one million people can be processed every year. Last month, the Supreme Court has the ability of the preliminary courts to stop Trump’s ability to stop the ability of the pre -dishes, which means that ICE agents can fall as far as from the streets.
Welcome – or rather, not welcome – in America 2025. Joe Biden always said that if you want to get to know the values of a country, study his budget. The “big, beautiful bill”, which Trump signed in the law on July 4, cannot be misunderstood.
The law reduces expenditure for health care, education, clean energy, food aid, medical research and disease prevention. The same invoice increases the budget of ICE to estimated USD 37.5 billion per year. This is higher than the entire defense budget of Italy and just below Canada. ICE will now double the number of agents in the field. What Washington will spend solely for detention centers is greater than the USAIS Budget, which was gutted at the beginning of this year.
Although it has nothing Glacier, Trump introduces America’s ice age. He catapulted ice to the best financed law enforcement agency in America-and increasingly beyond the accountability obligation. The agency’s internal guard dog was scrapped at the beginning of this year. At the moment, the pre -court courts can contribute little to this. The Supreme Court last year enabled Trump to immunity of “official” actions as President. That does Ice Trumps de facto private army – its security state within the state.
Most reviews about Trump’s power are Wilten. The congress does not provide control. In fact, the body modeled a constitutional decline. Lisa Murkowski, the Republican Senator, who was least aligned with Trump, said that the legislation was bad for America after he had just voted for it. She hoped that the House of Representatives would water it. It didn’t. At the beginning of this year Murkowski admitted: “We are all afraid … I am often very concerned about using my voice because retribution is real.” Her fear made it possible for Trump’s legislation to say goodbye to a voice. The land of free is also the home of the good, says “the star banner”. If a US senator is too afraid to oppose Trump, what could she expect from others?
This lives the streets with Americans who lose far less than Murkowski. They see a US president who accepts susceptible powers to explain entire categories of people as “foreign enemies” according to a law of French revolutionary. A large majority of the persons captured by ICE has no criminal records. The agency bluntly refused to comply with another law that gives members of the congress access to their detention centers. The legislator must now offer 72 hours of termination. In theory, the lower dishes could insist that ice is followed by the law. They were also able to instruct ice agents to remove their facial masks and show their IDs. But the Supreme Court announced Trump that he can ignore such decisions.
The only realistic block for Trump’s imperishable power is therefore the same dish with nine judges that has already given him several green lights.
The Supreme Court should hear Trump’s objection to the 14th change, which explained someone who was born on US floor as a citizen. Trump openly thought about the citizenship of naturalized Americans, including Zohran Mamdani, the American, born in Uganda, who swept the New York Democratic Mayor primary school last month.
The Court of Justice also evaluates the challenges of Trump’s declared right to force tariffs at will to raise the action of the congress of the wallet, for everyone he sees as “anti-national”, and use emergency powers to bring troops to the streets. It is a fair bet that Trump will either find the way or take advantage of the silence of the court. In almost every previous petition, the Supreme Court rejected its lawyers.
But Trump’s fateful challenge concerns to decide who is a US citizen.
If he won this case, America could no longer be considered a democracy. It took years for Viktor Orbán to consolidate strong rule in Hungary. Trump tries to reduce an equivalent system change within months. Perhaps speed will be withdrawn.
How would the US military react in the meantime in clashes with demonstrators? Would the Supreme Court have an eye on blood on the streets? Is there a category of person who couldn’t put Trump in a cage? It is alarming that we do not know the answers to these questions.
