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May 15: Department of Homeland Security asks for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with deportation operations in the interior of the country.

June 7: Trump calls on 2,000 National Guard troops to protect ICE agents and federal buildings amid immigration protests in Los Angeles.

June 9: The president deploys an additional 2,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines to allow ICE and other federal agents to “safely conduct their duties.”

June 10: During a Senate hearing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggests the administration could send troops to any city over the objections of local leaders.

June 17: Pentagon announces it mobilized 700 military personnel to support ICE in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.

June 20: Judge asks for a briefing on whether the L.A. deployment violates the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the military from conducting civilian law enforcement in the U.S.

June 30: Commander in charge of California’s National Guard troops asks Hegseth to pull 200 troops from Los Angeles so they can return to fighting wildfires.

July 3: About 70 Florida National Guard troops deployed to provide security to “Alligator Alcatraz.” And 200 Marines are sent to the state to help ICE with logistical support.

July 31: Pentagon ends the deployment of most National Guard troops in Los Angeles.

Aug. 8: Virginia mobilizes 60 Guardsmen to support ICE.

Aug. 9: Nevada’s governor activates the state National Guard to support ICE.

Aug. 11: Trump declares a public safety emergency in D.C. and deploys the National Guard.

Aug. 14: D.C. Guardsmen step up patrols to secure landmarks.

Aug. 16: West Virginia, South Carolina, and Ohio say they’ll send Guardsmen to D.C.

Aug. 18: Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana send National Guard to D.C.

Aug. 22: Internal documents obtained by Fox News depict a plan to deploy troops to 19 Republican-led states to assist DHS with illegal migrants.

Aug. 24: Trump threatens to send the Guard to Chicago, Baltimore, and New York City.

Aug. 25: In an executive order to address the “crime emergency” in D.C., Trump calls for a standing National Guard quick reaction force.

Aug. 27: Troops deployed to D.C. are on sanitation and landscaping duty as part of their mission.

Aug. 29: Reports emerge that military leaders worry over “social, political, and operational risks” of Guardsmen working with law enforcement.

Sept. 2: Federal judge rules Trump’s use of the National Guard in L.A. violated the Posse Comitatus Act.

Sept. 4: D.C. sues the administration over the deployment of the National Guard.

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Margaret Redus's avatar

💙💙💙

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Prof. Andre Gattaz, PhD's avatar

After handcuffing and treating hundreds of Korean engineers like criminals, the deranged American president invited them to stay in the U.S. to train American workers. Out of more than 300, only one accepted; the rest chose to return to Korea. Thus sinks the madman’s plan to resurrect American industry through tariffs, since the country’s main problem is the lack of a qualified workforce. That is why there are already more than 400,000 open positions in American industry with no workers to fill them. And those who come from abroad are expelled.

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Julie W's avatar

Excellent! TY. Everyone - Join your community in the next National peaceful protest on Saturday, Oct 18.  Freedom not Facism. Fight CORRUPTION, INCOMPETENCE and DESTRUCTION. Our job is to PERSIST: Rally, Protest, Resist & Remove the Regime. REWARDS: will be Renewal, Unity, Rebirth to Rebuild. (This is an All Hands on Deck day, bring your kids, parents, etc.) We can do this! 🫶

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JavaJunkyMonkey's avatar

Americans have never lived in a dictatorship. They are soon going to find out and will have deep deep regrets.

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

These people were not immigrants. They were temporary workers. I hope Hyundai pulls all of it's operations out of the US.

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Larry Lathrop's avatar

Christian White Trash Nationalist Socialist jingos are destroying this country.

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Leah Brill's avatar

I stand with immigrants & Blacks, whom Trump told their children, they couldn’t help being born as killers & criminals! It’s in their genes! He is incorrect!

Look at well educated Blacks. They’re smarter than the white colleagues whose relatives tried to keep slaves from learning how to read & write!

Those who fought beside my Dad in WWII, were not given the GI Bill, which was life changing for families!

In football, Blacks weren’t paid for concussions, as whites were, deemed to have smaller brains to begin with.

We have learned the truth!

Leave our Black & Brown brothers & sisters alone! Just let them live their lives without maniac racists intruding!

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Marilyn Schramm's avatar

If 80% of Americans don't support Trump, as you suggest, how did he end up in the White House?

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Great question 🤔

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JavaJunkyMonkey's avatar

Elon rigged the election along with so many Dems stayed home.

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Laurie Woodward Garcia's avatar

80 percent of people who call America home did not vote for him. Link in the above post. Many eligible voters stayed home and with a slight margin he won.

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Marilyn Schramm's avatar

Staying home (non-voting) simply means the potential voter does not care who wins. No preference is same as SUPPORT for whomever wins. And may they learn from the consequences. You can't call it a "democracy" when largest voting block is non-voter.

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Rosemary E Gaskell's avatar

It's true we do need to protect the sovereignty of our borders but we have no right to do it in this way. Trump declared he would have thousands of illegal immigrants deported but then found he would either have to go to war with the gangs in the big cities, which would be a long haul slog and not possible to get the quick win he was looking for, or do what he's doing now. Dragging legitimate foreign students off the streets and trolling parking lots for anyone who looks Latin American.

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