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Shell_Seas

(3,467 posts)
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 06:33 PM Nov 7

The Things That Are Coming

Now is the time to prepare for the assault on rights, community, and democracy.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/the-things-that-are-coming




Trigger Warning: This article discusses the disturbing policies and actions that Republicans have planned under Trump’s leadership. For those still processing the impact of this election, please be advised that the content may be difficult to read.

The Madagascar Plan was an idea considered by Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and early 1940s as part of their strategy for the so-called “Jewish Question.” The plan involved the forced relocation of European Jews to the island of Madagascar, a French colony at the time.

By 1941, logistical and strategic challenges made implementing the Madagascar Plan unfeasible. The British naval blockade during World War II prevented Germany from transporting people to distant colonies. The German invasion of the Soviet Union marked a shift in Nazi policy from deportation to genocide, leading to the establishment of extermination camps as part of the “Final Solution.” The Madagascar Plan was abandoned in favor of mass killings within occupied Eastern Europe.

The Nazi regime’s abandonment of the Madagascar Plan marked a turning point—a descent from plans of forced removal to systematic extermination. What began as logistical planning to expel people ended in genocide, showing how quickly “solutions” rooted in hatred can evolve into catastrophic actions when backed by power and infrastructure.

Today, echoes of such brutal policies are appearing closer to home.

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Our beautiful state SARose Nov 7 #1

SARose

(856 posts)
1. Our beautiful state
Thu Nov 7, 2024, 11:53 PM
Nov 7

Will soon resemble Schindler’s List.

“Uncharted territory”: Trump’s anti-immigration plans could take center stage in Texas

About 11% of immigrants in the United States, 5 million, live in Texas. The state is home to an estimated 1.6 million undocumented persons — the second-most in the country after California. It is also led by Republican elected officials who are politically in lock-step with Trump.

When Trump left office in 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott surged resources to the state’s 1,254-mile border with Mexico through a border security mission, Operation Lone Star, that has so far cost $11 billion in state money. It includes the deployment of thousands of Department of Public Safety troopers and Texas National Guard troops to patrol the border. He started building a state-funded border wall after Biden ended Trump’s wall project. He sent busloads of newly-arrived migrants from border towns to northern cities led by Democrats.

Those state police and Texas soldiers could help Trump achieve his marquee campaign promise of launching mass deportations, according to immigration lawyers.

“We are in uncharted territory,” said Cesar Espinosa, the executive director of FIEL, an organization that offers education, social and legal services to immigrant families in the Houston region — home to about half a million people who are living in the country illegally.

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Immigrant labor accounts for 40% or so of our construction industry, heavily involved in agriculture, healthcare, and food processing. Yeee haw!

Now add to that the 200,000 plus federal employees in Texas plus the VA Hospitals. Not to mention there are 5 military installations with federal employees and contractors in the San Antonio area.

We are well and truly screwed. Ask me why my house is going up for sale in the new year. 👍



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