As various situations unfold in and around American cities where our federal government is trying to assume control of state militias (a.k.a. National Guard units) and deploy them to reinforce the mission of ICE [the federal law enforcement agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, formally known as ‘U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’] I am drawn back to high school history classes when we learned about the Brownshirts in 1930’s Germany.

The Brownshirts didn’t target Hispanics or people with darker skin colors. The efforts of the Brownshirts were generally focused on people of the Jewish faith.

It seems to become clearer every day that ICE has been put on steroids — a full-scale campaign to provide unlimited resources to create a domestic army capable of shutting down any and all opposition to President Trump’s Agenda. And funded by that One Big Beautiful Bill by diverting funds from Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP and other critical supports for vulnerable Americans so that a new domestic army will rapidly emerge — led by Kristi Noem and Tom Homan — fully equipped to wreak havoc on mainstream America.