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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/08/trump-invasion-border-crossings-wartime-powers/83730925007/ SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico ‒ The U.S.-Mexico border used to buzz with illegal migration at a scale President Donald Trump called an "invasion."
Now soldiers surveil the desert from military vehicles, Border Patrol radios are silent and illegal crossings have fallen to record lows.
Reaching far beyond the border, deep into the country's heartland, Trump insists America is under "invasion" and has continued to invoke wartime powers to stop it. He has transformed the borderland into a military base, made arrests by masked agents a common sight in America and packed detention centers with immigrants, the vast majority without criminal records. He's now trying to take control of the California National Guard to crack down on immigrants and the protesters trying to defend them.
Trump's aggressive actions – and protestors' increasingly violent opposition – have touched off a furious national debate about civil rights, the rule of law and what the word "invasion" really means.
Trump is known for his verbal flourishes, but declaring an "invasion" in numerous executive actions is one way to unlock extraordinary federal authorities, often reserved for wartime, said Jessica Vaughan, of the right-leaning Center for Immigration Studies.
"It was not just meant to rile people up, or to just be used as a melodramatic description, but it was meant to trigger a certain response under certain authorities," she said.
The word "invasion" appears in at least 12 of Trump's executive orders, proclamations and memoranda since he took office Jan. 20, according to a USA TODAY review. He has ramped up military rhetoric in official orders, even as his administration touts its success in stopping border crossings.
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In a May 9 proclamation, after months of increased border security, Trump declared that he wants to "end this invasion, remove the illegal-alien invaders from the United States, and protect the American people."
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Some migrant advocates are becoming militant in their opposition to Trump's agenda, in some cases adopting tactics commonly associated with resistance fighters, mapping the movement of ICE agents and increasingly engaging in physical confrontations.
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Hours went by without a single illegal crossing.
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"The authoritarian needs an enemy to start, to galvanize the population," he said. "You use the word invasion; it’s immigrants for now."
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"They're seeing what can we get away with," said Kagan, adding the courts should block any effort to curb due process before the practice becomes widespread.
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>>1410612 So he can't keep up his ICE bullshit if he declares the problem solved. Which means he can't take credit for his shit without losing a major power source.
The catch 22 of trump.
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Herr Stephen Müller aka PeeWee German Sun 08 Jun 2025 20:44:28 No. 1410620 Report Quoted By:
>>1410619 Stephen Miller built tRump's wall. A fascist intolerant anti-immigration wall that goes against everything that the United States stands for that is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty : "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
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>declare invasion >invoke insurrection act >suspend habeas corpus, posse comitatus >martial law ensures >Trump suspends elections
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>>1410612 >Biden allows the country to be invaded in what even Demcorats like the NYC mayor described as a "crisis" >Trump fixes the border >therefore we're supposed to pretend it never happened and that the invaders aren't still here Trump prevented new people from invading the country but that doesn't automatically undo the invasion that happened over the last 50 years and especially under Biden. We still have 15 million illegal immigrants here.
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>>1411632 you'll never be american
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>>1411632 Is your plan to just keep calling it an invasion until reality warps and that becomes true?
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>>1411632 good post.
>>1411634 2/3rds of all white American men under 40 voted for trump. you post at like 4 am. you clearly are some kind of homosexual living in Yurop or a black woman
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>>1411641 you post like a shill who nobody likes. your lack of originality is a dead giveaway every time
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>>1411634 This bot is getting old. Can somebody at least edit the code so it capitalizes American?
>>1411635 >15 million people illegally came to your country and now are flying foreign flags while assaulting American law enforcement but this is NOT an invasion! lol k
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>>1411649 you're still not american, cry more
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>>1411649 >>15 million people illegally came to your country and now are flying foreign flags while assaulting American law enforcement but this is NOT an invasion!There's less than 400 people at these protests you fucking retard.
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>>1411652 >There's less than 400 people at these protests you fucking retard. So you mean like a quarter of them have been arrested then? Or is there more than 400
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