“The fact is that Ochoa and Gutierrez are among those people who CBP might target—but they were not targeted, in part because (like those Irish cops) they chose to become those doing the targeting.”
I think the same could be said of Steven Miller. And I think that will ultimately come back to bite him when the American Nazis decide to target Jews.
I think sometimes these things can come back to bite you, but by no means always. I don't think clarence thomas is going to lose the love of white supremacists, really.
I think if we want to hold miller accountable, we're probably going to have to do it ourselves.
Miller is already providing the right-wing cronies with both an excuse and a target.
Notice how some "moderate" Republicans started the "I don't blame the President, I blame his advisors" and the whispered " What you expect. He is Jewish."
becoming white is an interesting part of assimilation, i think, in becoming an American, and it seems like a process that people who have some quality of self-hate and a tendency towards reactionary politics.
on a different level of description, the CBP was already a criminal gang just waiting for trump's people to turn it into America's gestapo.
said Garrett M. Graff:
"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.
In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:
• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.
• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
ICE agents aren't a step up, it seems, since recruitment is open to some rather lowly specimens.
we might have luckily lost one who was found passed out at the wheel of his car one morning last week in Minneapolis, "covered in vomit."
Baldwin knew the reality of race relations then more than most people do now.
Another factor involved here, or at least I think is one, is the typical displays of masculine arrogance commonly displayed in the politics of Texas (or, should I say, Tejas). This area fought for independence from Mexico and established themselves as an independent Republic successfully for a time well before the U.S. incorporated them. And to a degree some of those there consider themselves above the law they see as conquerinh them...
If you know their history and ethnic background, some of this adds up.
I think gender and race are often intertwined in various ways. racialized men are often seen as very dangerous and are targeted for policing; on the other hand, asserting power over racialized men is a way to declare your masculinity and your whiteness.
Often, in neighborhoods where one race predominate, oppressed groups may be oppressed by white people, but they in turn will oppress others over whom they have influence to make up for that (wives, children, etc.)
“The fact is that Ochoa and Gutierrez are among those people who CBP might target—but they were not targeted, in part because (like those Irish cops) they chose to become those doing the targeting.”
I think the same could be said of Steven Miller. And I think that will ultimately come back to bite him when the American Nazis decide to target Jews.
I think sometimes these things can come back to bite you, but by no means always. I don't think clarence thomas is going to lose the love of white supremacists, really.
I think if we want to hold miller accountable, we're probably going to have to do it ourselves.
Miller is already providing the right-wing cronies with both an excuse and a target.
Notice how some "moderate" Republicans started the "I don't blame the President, I blame his advisors" and the whispered " What you expect. He is Jewish."
becoming white is an interesting part of assimilation, i think, in becoming an American, and it seems like a process that people who have some quality of self-hate and a tendency towards reactionary politics.
on a different level of description, the CBP was already a criminal gang just waiting for trump's people to turn it into America's gestapo.
said Garrett M. Graff:
"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.
In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:
• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.
• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
ICE agents aren't a step up, it seems, since recruitment is open to some rather lowly specimens.
we might have luckily lost one who was found passed out at the wheel of his car one morning last week in Minneapolis, "covered in vomit."
Baldwin knew the reality of race relations then more than most people do now.
Another factor involved here, or at least I think is one, is the typical displays of masculine arrogance commonly displayed in the politics of Texas (or, should I say, Tejas). This area fought for independence from Mexico and established themselves as an independent Republic successfully for a time well before the U.S. incorporated them. And to a degree some of those there consider themselves above the law they see as conquerinh them...
If you know their history and ethnic background, some of this adds up.
I think gender and race are often intertwined in various ways. racialized men are often seen as very dangerous and are targeted for policing; on the other hand, asserting power over racialized men is a way to declare your masculinity and your whiteness.
Often, in neighborhoods where one race predominate, oppressed groups may be oppressed by white people, but they in turn will oppress others over whom they have influence to make up for that (wives, children, etc.)
To quote Mass Effect, of all things, "Every war has its traitors"