Adam Serwer

So I think it's not just a question of they're trying to warn undocumented immigrants.

They're warning anybody who might presumably be racially profiled by ICE because the Supreme Court said the 14th Amendment doesn't exist anymore and you can just stop anyone if you think they're an illegal immigrant because they have brown skin or they speak a different language.

Well, to be honest, I don't think that Miller and whoever's running the like DHS social media accounts distinguishes between American citizen, undocumented immigrant person with legal status at all.

If you are of a demographic category that they don't want in the country.

I think they do not care.

Stephen Miller is a big fan of the racist 1920s immigration restrictions that partially inspired the Nazis.

He said that the big problem with the country was when they repealed those restrictions in 1965.

He's talked about if you import the third world, quote unquote, you get the third world, which is you can't even describe it as barely veiled, really racist statement.

that does not distinguish between legal and illegal immigration.

It says the presence of people who are not like me in this country is wrong.

And as long as that's your ideological, you know, North Star, you cannot have like a lawful legal immigration policy that distinguishes between categories of people, because what you really want to achieve is a kind of ethnic cleansing, demographic reengineering of the country.

The overall thesis is that I think, you know, if you've ever seen the movie Fight Club, you know, there's that Tyler Durden line where he's like, we have no great war.

Our great depression is our lives.

And this is the figment of an imagination of a disturbed person.

But I think, you know, for a lot of like online, like far right MAGA types, it's actually a thesis statement.

And so, you know, they thought of this, you know, mass deportation project as their great masculinizing, you know, saving Western civilization thing where they would get to prove that they were manly men.

They would finally get the manly execution of violence in

in defense of a great cause that would give their lives meaning.

And instead, this oppressive federal invasion of an American city has given their political opponents to show that they are brave, that they are fighting a great cause, that they are the ones who have a community that they will defend even at the risk of their own lives.

that they are the ones who truly believe in their principles to the point of risking everything to defend them.