Lincoln Square - In Other News: Fears of flying, billionaire border surveillance and more
Monday marked yet another day saturated with the latest Trump fails. From surrendering to China on tariffs, accepting a luxury jet from a foreign country, welcoming white South African “refugees” with open arms, and other assaults on America, here’s a few news items that you may have missed that have a direct impact on our lives right now, or in the future.
Trump sidesteps the Posse Comitatus Act with the creation of a second militarized “national defense zone” along the U.S. border: Trump recently ordered the transfer of the Roosevelt Reservation, a swatch of federal land from the Department of Interior to the Department of Defense, granting the Pentagon the authority to establish and enforce security measures around the new zone. This new designation allows the U.S. military to play a more direct role in the Trump regime’s crackdown on migrants and to bypass the federal law, the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the U.S. military from acting as law enforcement on U.S. soil.
Why It Matters: Trump and his evil cadre of Stephen Miller-like acolytes are finding disturbing new ways to sidestep federal laws that are meant to protect the rights and freedoms of Americans, and the checks and balances that uphold our democracy. It won’t stop with this. If they get away with acts that sidestep federal law, their attempts to violate the law through loopholes like this will only become more bold and dangerous for ALL Americans.
Peter Thiel’s Palatir lands contract to track migrants: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records indicate that Palantir has recently been awarded a $30 million contract to develop a platform capable of tracking migrant movements in real time.
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