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2025-07-04 -Land of the Free
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Trump deploys Marines to Florida as AOC goes into meltdown over new deportation powers: 'This is exploding'
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Donald Trump is sending 200 Marines to Florida to help ICE officials on the ground as leading Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns voters 'it is an explosion.'
| Noisiest? Quite possibly. Leading? Not even close. |
Trump's mobilization of the Marines came after a request from the Department of Homeland Security in May for military assistance.
Last month, he deployed 700 Marines to Los Angeles to contend with unruly anti-immigration protestors, sparking a furious response from California Governor Gavin Newsom.
'These Marines are the first wave of U.S. Northern Command's support of this ICE mission,' the Northern Command said in a statement.
Other deployments are expected to be made to Louisiana and Texas, officials said.
| The service members who are called to duty in Florida will 'perform strictly non law enforcement duties within ICE facilities.’ |
The service members who are called to duty in Florida will 'perform strictly non law enforcement duties within ICE facilities.'
This will include administrative and logistical tasks, freeing up ICE agents to dedicate their working hours to conducting arrests and tracking down illegal criminals.
| Not even so much as guarding federal buildings against rampaging Black Bloc hordes? How boring. |
'They are specifically prohibited from direct contact with individuals in ICE custody or involvement in any aspect of the custody chain,' the statement added.
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin told CBS that the Marines 'will be trained and ready to assist with immigration processing at locations across the state of Florida.'
She said this would be 'consistent with the whole-of-government approach to deliver on President Trump's mandate from the American people to remove public safety threats from American communities.'
It comes after Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill finally passed through Congress, paving the way for him to sign it into law on Friday July 4 - Independence Day. The landmark tax cuts and spending legislation contains many of the Republican's campaign promises, totaling $3.3 trillion.
The tax cuts alone will cost $4.5 trillion over the next ten years, according to projections from the Congressional Budget Office. To offset the massive price tag Republicans included $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, mainly trimming Medicaid, the health care program for the poor and disabled.
| And then there will be whatever funds President Trump chooses not to soend, guided by DOGE cost savings and philosophical choices about what the feds should not be involved in. It will be interesting to see what President Trump accomplishes with his phone and pen beyond whatever laws Congress passes over the next 3 1/2 years, given what he’s accomplished thus far. |
Border security efforts will also be getting a major cash infusion estimated to be around $150 billion for increased immigration enforcement.
It includes $46 billion for Customs and Border Patrol to build border wall and enhanced security measures
and around $30 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Trump on Tuesday toured the new immigration detention center surrounded by alligator-filled swamps in the Florida Everglades, suggesting it could be a model for future lockups nationwide as his administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations.
Trump said he'd like to see similar facilities in 'really, many states' and raised the prospect of also deporting US citizens.
| He’s just trolling with that last…I think. Though I’m fine with deporting naturalized citizens who lied on their application or committed the worst crimes after they swore their oath of citizenship, like rape, murder, drug or human trafficking, or large-sum white collar crimes — after they’re stripped of that citizenship. |
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