As it turns out, Pete Hegseth's plan for a portable military dictatorship wasn't the only horrifying news coming out of the Defense Department this week. Reports also indicate that the Pentagon is reviewing a request by DHS for a permanent force of 20,000 troops to perform immigration policing tasks directly. Furthermore, and even more ominously, the Trump regime is also exploring the use of military bases around the country to cage captured migrants, or anyone else the feds want to arrest.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/10/trump-national-guard-ice-transport-immigrations-price/84131100007/

Trump wants 20,000 troops to hunt, transport immigrants. Cost estimate: $3.6 billion

"The Pentagon is reviewing a Department of Homeland Security request to deploy more than 20,000 additional National Guard troops to aid the Trump administration's widening crackdown on illegal immigration around the United States, according to officials and documents.

Homeland Security officials want the troops to help track fugitives, quell riots at detention centers and search for unaccompanied children in remote or hostile terrain.

Meanwhile, Pentagon and Customs and Border Patrol officials have inspected military bases in recent months from New Jersey to California as potential sites to detain an expected influx of migrants."

I don't know how many more "smoke em if you've got em" moments Trump 2.0 can produce before my lungs give out, but this is absolutely horrifying news that isn't getting nearly enough coverage in the media. What the regime is proposing here is more or less transforming 20K National Guardsmen into a militarized arm of ICE, Border Patrol, and the private prison companies we pay to warehouse captured migrants, entirely under the command of the Gestapo, and thus Trump. This brings up three major issues:

First of all this is a transparent attempt to increase the military capabilities of the Gestapo, circumventing the need to invoke the Insurrection Act and straight up just using the National Guard for immigration policing in the American interior; so your town, anywhere in the country. The tasks Noem is requesting thousands of troops for, including hunting down "fugitives," surveillance, transportation support, and guarding prisons, are all activities budgeted for and performed by other federal agencies and contractors already. How exactly this isn't Noem massively increasing the size of the Gestapo without legislative branch approval is absolutely fucking beyond me; we're out here having a debate about the optics of using National Guardsmen to protect Gestapo raids, and she's just recruiting an army as far as I can tell. If this bullshit is approved, it's going to put armed soldiers in your streets all over the country to hunt down or cage brown people, and while I am absolutely certain it's a violation of the *spirit* of the the Posse Comitatus Act, informal precedents that were never designed to facilitate a fascist regime conducting an ethnic cleansing operation against the will of state Governors, lead me to believe there's a good chance this is all "legal."

Additionally, transforming military bases into migrant prisons, and using US military personal to guard caged migrants is a way to drastically expand Trump's gulag system without the traditionally required legislative approval as well. Don't sleep on the fact that the DHS proposal talks about "overwhelmed detention facilities" and "riot control." Why is the Trump regime expecting detention facilities to be "overwhelmed," who do they expect to "riot," and given what we've seen these assclown nazis call rioting and insurrection, what does "riot" even mean in this context? It sounds to me like Noem wants permanent troops to man private prisons, put down migrant carceral riots, and attack protestors demonstrating outside of immigration detention facilities. Just how many people are the Gestapo planning on locking up here?

Finally of course, we can't forget that a fascist police state for targeting migrants, is a fascist police state for targeting anyone else too. We've already seen what the Trumpenreich can accomplish with a ready bake army of 4,000+ in terms of taking over a Democrat-run city against the wishes of state and municipal representatives, so what could Trump accomplish with 20,000+ National Guardsmen under his command and at the ready? Barring widespread kinetic resistance, I'd wager that 20K National Guardsman is more or less enough troops to occupy all the parts of the country that didn't vote for Trump and wouldn't obey his (often illegal or unconstitutional) edicts otherwise.

Folks, I'm not trying to be an alarmist here but as I've mentioned numerous times before, there comes a point where you *have* to stop entertaining the possibility that the Trumpenreich is "accidentally" building a police state dictatorship. If you purposely build it, you mean to use it, and these nazi assclowns are certainly building it.

Sticking with the Trumpenreich invasion of LA for just one more moment, I'd like to take a look at the intentional fascist intimidation tactics employed by Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, or at least her security team, against the US Senator from California, Alex Padilla. This event received extensive coverage in the mainstream media, but I believe it's important to take note of here for two reasons; one which was discussed in liberal media circles, and one that got far less coverage because our establishment is instinctively allergic to calling US cabinet officials "liars" even when everyone knows they're lying.

Let's get into the weeds:

https://truthout.org/articles/senator-padilla-tackled-to-the-ground-handcuffed-at-noem-press-conference/

Sen. Alex Padilla Tackled to the Ground, Handcuffed at Noem Press Conference

"Video of the incident that circulated on social media showed Padilla attempting to ask Noem a question when multiple men began grabbing and shoving him.

“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” Padilla says, struggling to speak as he’s manhandled. He seemingly begins to make a comment about the “rotating” set of people supposedly convicted of crimes that the Trump administration is parading around in attempts to justify their brutal, sweeping anti-immigrant campaign.

As he’s speaking, the officers forcibly remove him from the room, with Padilla yelling “hands off.” Grabbing his arms, chest, and clothes, they shove the senator into a hallway, where they force him to the ground and handcuff him."

First of all, this is outrageous, intentional, fascist political intimidation and Senator Warren is absolutely right when she says the DHS Secretary should resign. Not that Noem will, because Trump purposely stacked his regime full of nazis who don't know the meaning of the word shame this time, and Kristi really fits that description; after all, this *is* a woman who bragged about murdering a puppy because she thought it would help her political career. The fact is however there are only 100 United States Senators, and while Capital Hill may be a city within a city, it's not a particularly large city. Every single person in that room, including Noem, her security detail, and the press corps, knew who Alex Padilla was the entire time. Furthermore, while Noam might have a TV star's face thanks to her surgeon, she's a very poor actor, and watching her during this widely-recorded moment makes it clear she's fully aware of what's going on the whole time. The assault, and it was an assault, by Noem's security detail on a Democrat sitting US Senator representing the community the Trumpenreich is currently invading, was completely intentional; Noem, and through her Trump, meant to send a message.

As the article goes on to detail, this fascist bullshit is firmly party of a larger Swine Emperor and GOP quest to criminalize their political opposition, specifically the Democratic Party. This is occurring not only in rhetoric, but in deed. The regime is investigating Act Blue, a Dem-aligned fundraising org, they've arrested both a Democrat Mayor, and a Democrat Congresswoman for attempting to conduct oversight on an ICE facility, federal agents burst into NY Democrat Jerry Nadler's office, cuffed an employee, and accused his staff of harboring "criminals." They're working hard to get Americans used to seeing Democrat officials aligned against Trump, in handcuffs on the six o'clock news, and I suspect that's not an accident.

All of which then brings us to Kristi Noem's bald-face lie, that Senator Padilla "burst into the room," "lunged at her,' and "did not identify himself." Let's roll the tape:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/12/la-protests-los-angeles-california-curfew-ice-immigration-marines-national-guard-donald-trump-latest-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-684b57ac8f08fa293877a0a2#block-684b57ac8f08fa293877a0a2

CBS video of Padilla interrupting Noem with a question appears to undermine her claim that he lunged at her

"Just three seconds into the incident, Padilla could be seen standing, with his left hand raised slightly in a rhetorical gesture, trying to continue with his question, as a security officer placed his hands on the senator’s chest and back and began pushing him away from the front of the room.

There is no visual evidence in the clip to suggest that Padilla was moving in Noem’s direction when he started speaking, or was ever within 10-15ft (3-3.5 metres) of her."

So, actually Padilla was already in the room, he never got within 12 feet of Noem and certainly didn't lunge, and he clearly identified himself in a room he didn't have to. I'm sorry for the Zapruder film treatment here, but I want to establish that Kristi Noem is unquestionably, and intentionally lying about something she knows is being recorded live, because that's the most important thing about this incident.

Noem knows she's lying, she knows you know she's lying, and she knows the camera knows she's lying, but in true fascist fashion she's claiming the power to force you to accept that lie as valid; and a media pretending she could just be stupid and mistaken, would make Orwell weep.