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by sjsdaiuasgdia 341 days ago
"Everything else — the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy — is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions." - VP JD Vance, as the budget reconciliation bill was approaching final passage in the House.

The policy has been clearly stated. Getting rid of immigrants is the one and only priority. Health care policy does not matter. Budget policy does not matter.

And as we see here, rights do not matter, if they get in the way of aggressive pursuit of immigration policy.

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Even “Immigration policy” is a Trojan horse of priority if ICE is squaring up against protestors and activists.
Absolutely. Ideological alignment is increasingly mandatory. As they run out of immigrants to persecute, the ideologically "impure" will become the main target.