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[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 117 points 3 days ago (10 children)

$45 billion more given to ICE with the bill passed in the senate today. Your taxes going towards (more) ethnic cleansing. They want to strip citizenship from anyone who doesn’t kiss their ass and throw them in these cages. Next step after that will be “lending” the imprisoned for labor.

Any American who doesn’t have “abolish and defund ICE” at the top of their priority list is aiding and abetting fascists.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 79 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Minor correction - the bill passed today increases it's overall operating budget by $175B to over $200B total. ICE will become the third most funded armed forces in the world just behind China. $45B is earmarked for camps.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 55 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's about 10M undocumented immigrants in the u.s. This is about $20k each. They're not just going after immigrants.

[–] Tollana1234567 1 points 2 days ago

and many immigrants dont want to be found which is why they are targeting non immigrants as well.

[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

wtf. It’s almost ENTIRE Chinese army budget ($246 billion). And china has aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines! It’s a budget for a new army

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They have to be exterminated. Arm up.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ha. You’re taking about Americans here. They’ll cower and not do shit. Watch.

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