The Defense Department has mobilized 700 troops to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Florida, Louisiana and Texas.

These troops will “not participate in law enforcement activities” but will “provide logistical support, and conduct administrative and clerical functions,” according to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell. The troops were deployed last week, Parnell said.

The three states have seen several large-scale ICE raids since Trump took office in January and implemented his hardline anti-immigration agenda, promising to carry out the “largest deportation operation in American history.”

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    6 hours ago

    Yeah, geez, it’s wild what happens when everyone just decides to allow it

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      @WizardofFrobozz

      We in America face a collective action problem. We have been used to the political system doing that for all its grotesque flaws.

      But the super rich pulled a coup they bought the total control of the federal government was pocket change.

      We in America have to come to terms with a captured government that level of capture that did not exist prior to 2025.

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        @WizardofFrobozz

        The intention of our new rulers is to obliterate the United States, stripping us of everything we have in order to put them in total control of our lives.

        Every day the current regime exists as another day they move forward on their project to render a permanent under class.

        The most cancerous faction are the guys from Silicon Valley in all of their companies, which must be pulled apart.