Source: Washington Post
by Jonathan Alter
“If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And if you have $75 billion over four years in new funding for ICE, you – Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Tom Homan — will use it to fund a huge domestic army to round up four million people in the next three years, put them in ‘detention centers’ and deport them. If these cruel men planned to go after criminals, as they claimed, they would have needed only a fraction of the money that Republican lawmakers just gave them. And ending the genuine shortfall in the Department of Homeland Security budget doesn’t require this kind of dough. So with virtually unlimited funds, they’ll make up for lost time. We’re already witnessing swarms of masked agents grabbing people off the street. Within weeks, it’ll get a lot worse.” (07/14/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/14/america-is-now-a-police-state/