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Uncle Joe

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Thu Nov 6, 2025, 12:13 PM Nov 6

"Taken: The Agents Raiding Communities and the People Trying to Stop Them": Maria Hinojosa



A new special report from Futuro Media follows the Trump administration's federal immigration raids and the growing community resistance against them. "Taken: The Agents Raiding Communities and the People Trying to Stop Them" documents how Latinos in the U.S. are being racially profiled, "kidnapped," denied due process and forced to sign their own removal orders. "This is psychological terror," says investigative journalist Maria Hinojosa. "Trump is saying we should have ethnic cleansing against Latinos and Latinas, if it hasn't gone far enough."

Hinojosa also comments on the recent public sexual harassment of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and the growing public profile of Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino.
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"Taken: The Agents Raiding Communities and the People Trying to Stop Them": Maria Hinojosa (Original Post) Uncle Joe Nov 6 OP
Psychological terror. So deeply evil. So unAmerican (in the best use of that word.) So opposite to what Christ teaches. efhmc Nov 6 #1
One aspect of this which seems to keep coming up in such interviews or discussions of this sort is the statement . . . xocetaceans Nov 6 #2

efhmc

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1. Psychological terror. So deeply evil. So unAmerican (in the best use of that word.) So opposite to what Christ teaches.
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 12:27 PM
Nov 6

If you call yourself and your party followers of his.

xocetaceans

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2. One aspect of this which seems to keep coming up in such interviews or discussions of this sort is the statement . . .
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 02:10 PM
Nov 6

. . . that undocumented immigrants are not "criminals" and that they commit fewer crimes than the standard US citizen. That this keeps coming up as a point of amazement or of argumentation shows a repeated failure to understand how the MAGA GOP authoritarians look at all of these immigrants.

"The worst of the worst...murderers...rapists..." is just a talking point to lend a more strident, emotional weight to arguments which attempt to justify all these removals and which serve to quiet crowds against protesting the removals broadly, loudly, or openly.

Principally, the MAGA GOP sees all undocumented immigrants as criminals for crossing the border or overstaying, and it does not matter to MAGA how long they have been in the US, how they have conducted themselves (unless it actually does involve lawbreaking), why they came here, or what any other of their circumstances actually have been.

This is very similar to the attribution of original sin to humanity--except in this case, MAGA attributes this "original sin" to all Latinos and other non-Caucasian groups. The MAGA GOP's actions may well be likened to ethnic cleansing, since it is (at a fundamental level) a seemingly due-process-free backlash against the broken immigration policy and economic system that has been present since at least the time of Reagan.

Will the economic circumstances be fundamentally changed so as to avoid this sort of situation in the future? That is doubtful: who benefits the most from the continuation of cheap labor? Do they have any interest in fixing that "problem", or is it a convenient means to divide the masses of poor people against themselves? Has Trump ever employed undocumented immigrants? If so, that would indicate that even he does not really care about this--it is likely just a means to an end (i.e., his regaining the Presidency and the ability to continue to grift from that position through other means--cryptocurrency, etc.).

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