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The Trump administration’s active-duty troop deployment to the southern border signals a breakdown of civil-military boundaries—and a threat to democratic checks.
#Trump #BorderMilitarization #PosseComitatus #DemocraticInstitutions #MilitaryTimes
Militarizing America’s southern border is a slippery slope
Opinion: The U.S. military has been hurled into an unprecedented and dangerous role as a police force along the U.S.-Mexico border, the author of this op-ed argues.
www.militarytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
dpsea.bsky.social
🚨 White House memo NSPM-4 just authorized military to take over public lands at southern border & establish "National Defense Areas" under DoD control

This shifts border security from civilian to military authority with minimal oversight 🇺🇸

#BorderMilitarization
A symbolic editorial illustration split in two: one side shows peaceful public lands with park rangers and a justice sign; the other shows military control with soldiers, watchtowers, barbed wire, and a map, highlighting the transfer of authority over borderlands.
April 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
icyourpixels.bsky.social
Immigration Weekly Update:
#Federal

Trump’s border agenda is spiraling: military zones, deportation deals with Libya, “voluntary departure” cash payouts. Courts are blocking some of it—but we’re witnessing the normalization of authoritarian tactics in plain sight

#Deportation #BorderMilitarization
May 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
pariasans.bsky.social
"As both parties continue to militarize the border, Republicans have begun to give voice to what is hard not to see as a longing to kill."

#USpol #USpolitics #vigilantism #BorderVigilantes #BorderMilitarization #USMexicoBorder #migrants #AntiMigrantRacism #RacializedCommunities #RacistViolence
Death in Nogales | S. C. Cornell
On January 30, 2023, a forty-eight-year-old Mexican man named Gabriel Cuen Buitimea made his way into the Sonoran desert a few miles east of Nogales,
www.nybooks.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:47 PM
bcbegley.bsky.social
U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants
#BorderMilitarization #ElPaso #MigrantCrisis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsPk...
U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants
YouTube video by B.C. Begley
www.youtube.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
naturehopper.bsky.social
In his first 100 days, President Trump has declared more national emergencies — more creatively and more aggressively — than any president in modern American history
#Trump #EmergencyState #ExecutiveOverreach #TariffTactics #BorderMilitarization #LegalControversy​ #Axios
Trump redefines "emergency" to impose his will
Powers originally crafted to give the president flexibility in rare moments of crisis now form the backbone of Trump's agenda.
www.axios.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM