Project 2025: How "Sealing the Border" Will Impact Free Movement
Not only for immigrants but for ALL Americans (Scroll to the end to listen)
In yesterday’s newsletter, we covered Project 2025’s use of the term “seal the border” and contrasted it with historical regimes and their restrictions on free movement. Today, we expand on that theme.
Project 2025’s policy recommendations for controlling immigration could also be used to “seal the border” and suppress free movement for all Americans. Here’s how.
Compliance for Grants and other Federal Funding. All applicants and potential recipients of (FEMA) grant funding should be required to meet certain pre-conditions for eligibility or should simply be considered ineligible for funding. Such preconditions should include at least the following:
If the applicant is a state or locality, commitment by that state or locality to total information-sharing in the context of both federal law enforcement and immigration enforcement. This would include access to department of motor vehicles and voter registration databases.
Project 2025, page 138
One way a Christo-fascist regime could seal the border for Americans? Gain access to who possibly voted against them. Registered Democrats could be harassed and prosecuted, audited and investigated, any of which could make it difficult-to-impossible for American citizens to leave the country.
The Border Security and Immigration Agency (BSIA) should establish clear mission requirements, responsibilities, and mandates under existing law regarding the persistent need for and utilization of US military personnel and resources to assist BSIA with increasing whole-of-government efforts and long-term strategy to secure our nation’s borders effectively.
Project 2025, page 139
This policy position would utilize the United States military to police our nation’s borders. Here’s what it might look like:
The Berlin Wall (above) prevented people from entering or leaving East Berlin.
Or this:
Militarized border walls, at our southern border or elsewhere, can be used to prevent entry AND exit.
A single nationwide detention standard should be codified that prevents individual states from mandating that federal government agencies adhere to widely expansive and ever-changing sets of standards. Such standards should allow the flexibility to use large numbers of temporary facilities such as tents.
Project 2025, page 140
Mainstream media outlets have made much of immigrants being rounded up into detention camps, from which they will be speedily deported.
But this system could be used to house Americans charged with resisting the regime, say because of mass anti-government protests. It could also be deployed to incarcerate enemies of the regime in unpaid work camps. Both policies would restrict free movement of American citizens.
Congress should increase funding for facility upgrades at strategic land Ports of Entry (POEs), including expanding state-of-the-art technology such as Non-Intrusive Inspection equipment.
Project 2025, page 140
This policy recommendation is couched as needed to stop the flow of drugs into the country. But it could be used to intercept self-induced abortion pills or contraception shipped from overseas if declared illegal. It could also keep Americans who choose to illegally flee the regime from taking their possessions.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) should be identified as being primarily responsible for enforcing civil immigration regulations, including the civil arrest, detention, and removal of immigration violators ANYWHERE in the US, without warrant where appropriate.
Project 2025, page 142
This means no Sanctuary Cities. Are “immigration violators” in the above paragraph illegal immigrants? Or are they also those who help shelter and protect immigrants from arrest? Here we have yet another possible way Americans could be arrested and charged with crimes that could prevent free movement.
The use of Blackie’s Warrants would be operationalized within ICE. These civil search warrants are commonly used for worksite enforcement when agents have probable cause that illegal aliens are employed at a business.
ICE OPLA, ERO, and HSI should issue a joint internal memo on operationalizing Blackie’s Warrants for immediate use on worksite enforcement and other appropriate investigations and operations.
Project 2025, page 142 and 153
This is yet another pathway for a Christo-fascist regime bent on retribution to harass and punish its enemies: Raid their businesses; investigate them without cause; and possibly bankrupt them, all under the guise of “immigration enforcement.”
The scope of the Coast Guard’s mission needs to be focused on protecting US resources and interests in its home waters, specifically its Exclusive Economic Zone (200 miles from shore.)…Doing this will require reversing years of shortfalls in shipbuilding, maintenance, and upgrades of shore facilities as well as seeking more cost-effective ship and facility designs.
Project 2025, page 155
In a Christo-fascist regime, this could mean capturing and detaining people trying to enter or leave the US illegally. It could also mean boarding boats to search for people who have gotten illegal abortions on medical ships in the open sea or who are seeking to bring vital healthcare tools to Americans with uteri.
I think most people still don't believe this could happen in America today. I don't know what to do but keep pointing out what's happening in red states, keep quoting them in their own words, and hope that when someone shows you who they are, people will believe them.
Outrageous! This is Hitler shit!!
And withholding FEMA money from say California if they refuse to share medical records or voting party. It's exactly what the Christian Taliban will do, and it lines up perfectly with how Trump and his son gave a very disproportionate number of N95 masks to red statrs, not blue..