Conor here: It\u2019s getting increasingly difficult to separate the trolling from the policy. This appears intended to strike fear into communities of color which are largely working class. Trump\u2014who is very fond of \u201cguest workers\u201d at his properties<\/a> \u2014and his fellow members of the ruling class would no doubt love a similar system for all workers. Indeed, as we\u2019ve noted<\/a> much of the administration\u2019s deportation policy has the effect of getting rid of immigrants who don\u2019t have their ability to stay in the country tied to their employer and replace them with guest workers whose presence is wholly dependent on their labor. I\u2019ll leave this from Michael Macher<\/a> here before we get to the main piece:<\/p>\n \u2026the US immigration system runs not on the enforcement of immigration laws, but on their selective nonenforcement. Employers have relied on the state to ignore the exploitation of undocumented labor while holding the credible threat of deportation over workers. This has had the effect of strengthening employer bargaining power generally against all workers\u2014lowering wages, weakening unions, and shifting the politics of work away from collective bargaining and wage-and-hour regulation. The interest in labor that is weak and disorganized has driven US politicians, consciously or not, to adopt the role of petty bosses, threatening the deportation of significant portions of the US workforce. But if Trump can afford to blow up this arrangement, it is because the precarity of the undocumented worker represents the future of labor relations in the US, not its past.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n By Stephen Prager, a staff writer for Common Dreams. Cross posted from Common Dreams<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Trump administration<\/a> provoked horror this week with the suggestion that the United States<\/a> could be turned into a paradise if over a quarter of the people in the country were deported.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, the official social media<\/a> account for the Department of Homeland Security posted a piece of artwork depicting a pink late-1960s Cadillac Eldorado parked on a bright, idyllic beach. Over the clear blue sky are the words \u201cAmerica after 100 million deportations<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The post was captioned by the agency: \u201cThe peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.\u201d<\/p>\n Social media users later discovered<\/a> that DHS had, ironically, stolen the image from the Japanese pop artist Hiroshi Nagai<\/a> without giving credit.<\/p>\n The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world. pic.twitter.com\/UrPiRA7X1C<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It is hardly the first time the administration has used edgy and inflammatory social media posts to promote its agenda. But DHS has come under particular scrutiny for its style of communication, which often evokes<\/a> white nationalist rhetoric and symbolism.<\/p>\n Posts by the agency have cheered<\/a> \u201cremigration,\u201d a term that far-right parties in Europe have often used<\/a> to describe the forced repatriation of nonwhite populations, including citizens. Other posts have referred to President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cmass deportation\u201d campaign as part of an effort to defend American \u201cheritage\u201d<\/a> and \u201cculture.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n The agency frequently evokes images of the American frontier and references \u201cManifest Destiny,\u201d at times explicitly posting artwork glorifying the forced displacement of Native American populations.<\/p>\n An image by the agency, featuring a chiseled Uncle Sam calling on Americans to \u201cREPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS,\u201d was even directly sourced<\/a> from an overt neo-Nazi account.<\/p>\n The agency has only continued to double down in the face of criticism this week. On Friday, it posted<\/a> that \u201c2026 will be the year of American Supremacy\u201d over an image of then-Gen. George Washington<\/a> crossing the Delaware River, which was emblazoned with the words \u201cReturn this Land,\u201d a possible reference<\/a> to a recently-founded \u201cwhites-only\u201d town in rural Arkansas known as \u201cReturn to the Land.\u201d<\/p>\n I don\u2019t get the debate about this. There are two racist shibboleths on here, one that is overt and reflective of the hegemonic ideology in America that we learn in school, the other is thinly veiled Hitler worship. They are distinct signs, distinct histories. Worth noting. https:\/\/t.co\/THsa39gU1C<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Palantir Neurodivergent Fellow \ud83d\udc4a\ud83d\udd3b\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 (@postcyborg) July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n But Wednesday\u2019s post calling for \u201c100 million deportations\u201d specifically was perhaps the most direct nod yet to those who believe the United States must be reconstituted as a white nation. As social media users were quick to point out, only about 47 million people living in America are foreign-born, according to the US Census Bureau<\/a>.<\/p>\n Even if the administration kicked out every single immigrant\u2014including legal residents and naturalized citizens\u2014meeting such a goal would mean deporting 53 million people who were born in the US and are legally entitled to citizenship under the 14th Amendment<\/a>.<\/p>\n If the use of the phrase \u201cthird world\u201d did not make it obvious enough, the specific number\u2014100 million\u2014seems to betray the racial motivation behind the message.<\/p>\n Citing 2020 census<\/a> data on the Wikipedia page<\/a> for \u201cDemographics of the United States,\u201d one social media user pointed out that approximately 100 million people in the US identified as nonwhite.<\/p>\n Sorry if this has been pointed out but this is explicitly saying deport everyone who isn\u2019t white because 100 million is the number of non white Americans. https:\/\/t.co\/qvkmlG3LjD<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/hC3cLUs4gi<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 barbarism critic (@barbarismcrit) January 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The DHS post drew comparisons<\/a> to one made earlier this year by the close Trump ally and unofficial White House operative<\/a> Laura Loomer, who suggested that thanks to \u201cAlligator Alcatraz,\u201d the massive internment camp<\/a> in Florida for those arrested by immigration<\/a> agents, \u201cthe alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals,\u201d which referenced<\/a> the total number<\/a> of Hispanic people in the United States.<\/p>\n While it\u2019s almost certainly not possible for the administration to conduct a deportation campaign of such a staggering scale within Trump\u2019s term of office, the administration\u2019s latest post was frightening to many observers, even as they acknowledged<\/a> that it was a \u201ctroll post\u201d meant to rile people up.<\/p>\n It is still reflective of the Trump administration\u2019s ideology<\/a> with respect to immigration. Leaders of Trump\u2019s deportation effort have acknowledged<\/a> that they target people based on their appearance, and many nonwhite US citizens have been caught in the dragnet. Meanwhile, its refugee policy has welcomed only white South Africans, as Trump has enacted what he says is a \u201cpermanent pause on migration from all Third World Countries.\u201d<\/p>\n During 2026, the administration has said it plans<\/a> to target hundreds of US citizens each month for \u201cdenaturalization,\u201d and Trump has called for it to be used against his most prominent critics, including the Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar<\/a> (D-Minn.) and New York\u2019s first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is absolutely insane Nazi propaganda, posted by the US government,\u201d said Ben Norton<\/a>, editor of the Geopolitical Economy Report in response to DHS\u2019s call for\u201c100 million deportations.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt makes it clear that the Trump administration\u2019s mass deportation drive is not actually about \u2018illegal immigration.\u2019 There are estimated to be 14 million undocumented immigrants in the US. But the fascist DHS wants to deport 100 million people,\u201d Norton continued. \u201cThis is a call by the US regime for ethnic cleansing<\/a> of racial minorities, to create a white-supremacist regime without anyone with \u2018third world\u2019 heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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