(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Episode 348: Trump Will Invoke Alien Enemies Act To Expel Hispanics [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-10-13 YouTube, later Three times this weekend Trump announced he will invoke “The Alien Enemies Act” which gives him the personal, arbitrary power to send to a concentration camp, or to deport, anybody in this country based on their race. Make no mistake that he means it. Trump’s anti-immigrant, specifically anti-Hispanic, hate speech has now climaxed with a promise to invoke the 1798 law that permits the president — in war time — to arrest and detain or deport without a hearing or without evidence of crime — American citizens and others — at his personal whim — based on their race. NOT where they were born, NOT whether they’ve committed or been suspected of a crime, NOT whether they are here legally or illegally. Based on their race. You know, if I were in the Harris/Walz campaign, I’d write up an ad (in Spanish?) mentioning this. The last time this country used it, in one of the most shameful episodes in our history, they rounded up the Japanese. Nearly all that lived in the Continental United States. Nearly none of them accused of crimes. Nearly all of whom had been born here. And you were Japanese, if you were one-sixteenth Japanese. The latest New York Times-Siena poll shows that among Hispanic voters Harris leads Trump by only 54 to 36. Mike Podhorzer, the recently retired political director of the AFL-CIO, explains that this poll number is just what you think it is. “When we do focus groups with the segment of Latinos that are answering survey questions saying that they’re comfortable with mass deportation, what comes out quickly is” nobody has told them that things like the Alien Enemies Act gives Trump the PERSONAL right to send to concentrate camps or expel from this country, not criminals, not suspects, not undocumented immigrants, not gang members, not rapists, not murderers, but THEM. Then, says Podhorzer, you explain: Trump will have the right to expel your wife. And your children. And you. And no lawyer or court can stop him. What happens then? “That focus group flips.” Kamala Harris needs to get a direct-to-camera commercial up immediately warning Hispanics in this country that Trump can and will send to concentration camps, without as much as a hearing, their relatives and friends … and them. Great minds think alike! AS TRUMP SAYS THE MILITARY SHOULD BE DEPLOYED during this election, we learn he really wanted to use it to back a "new election" in the summer of 2021. And the media is still responding by saying that his return to power would be a “boon” to the business side of news. Not even Andrew Ross Sorkin, nominally an economics guy at CNN, seems to understand that Trump will happily declare that “The Alien Enemies Act” can be applied to an industry and shut down all the news organizations, seize their assets, and turn them into state-run media. After all, that’s what Hitler did. THE COMIC RELIEF? J.D. Vance says he forgot to wear his earrings to a town hall. x JD Vance: "I left my bluetooth earrings at home." 😂 pic.twitter.com/ozu0KqH0Vm — Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) October 13, 2024 (Not that there’s anything wrong with that ...) Misplaced them? I think I know where you should look for them, Jayvee. Ya know … it wouldn’t be difficult to create an Android app like this ... In news in Progoland … I got my ballot in the mail. Which reminds me: To all you Arizonans out there: Vote out State Supreme Court Justices Clint Bolick and Kathryn Hackett King. (They voted to uphold the 1864 abortion law in Arizona.) [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/13/2276317/-Countdown-With-Keith-Olbermann-Episode-348-Trump-Will-Invoke-Alien-Enemies-Act-To-Expel-Hispanics?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/