L0la L33tz on Nostr: Remember when I told you that under the Trump administration financial surveillance ...
Remember when I told you that under the Trump administration financial surveillance would go up, and you all called me a FUDster?
The IRS now plans on sharing confidential tax information with ICE and DHS to carry out deportations.
This practice is *not* unprecedented:
The systemic use of tax information and financial records is one of the practices majorly credited with enabling H*tler’s mass deportations of Jews beginning in 1938, enabling the 'industrialization' of the Holocaust.
If you think this is fine because you are legally in the US, remember that Trump is currently attempting to deport and revoke a student’s green card for organizing protests at Columbia University.
Last week, the administration deported at least two Venezuelan asylum seekers legally in the US to El Salvador’s terrorist detention center, known for torture and inmate deaths. Neither had a criminal record – the basis for their deportation were allegedly misidentified tattoos.
If you think this is fine because you are a US citizen, remember that last week, the Treasury announced that it would lower the currency reporting threshold in 30 counties along the Mexican border from $10,000 down to $200 in attempts to fight gang activity – affecting anyone living in the area.
Over the past weeks, we have additionally seen a drastic increase in using deportations to prosecute political speech. Four days ago, a French space researcher was denied entry to the US for messages critical of Trump, which the administration allegedly described as ‘terrorism’.
This is the *second* major increase in financial surveillance in the US in the last two weeks.
If history has taught us anything, it should be that fascism does not stop at the people you don’t like.
Please zap/share this post as wide and far as you can – It was shadow banned on the free speech LARP for using banned words.
https://www.therage.co/irs-shares-tax-data-with-ice-dhs-deportations/
The IRS now plans on sharing confidential tax information with ICE and DHS to carry out deportations.
This practice is *not* unprecedented:
The systemic use of tax information and financial records is one of the practices majorly credited with enabling H*tler’s mass deportations of Jews beginning in 1938, enabling the 'industrialization' of the Holocaust.
If you think this is fine because you are legally in the US, remember that Trump is currently attempting to deport and revoke a student’s green card for organizing protests at Columbia University.
Last week, the administration deported at least two Venezuelan asylum seekers legally in the US to El Salvador’s terrorist detention center, known for torture and inmate deaths. Neither had a criminal record – the basis for their deportation were allegedly misidentified tattoos.
If you think this is fine because you are a US citizen, remember that last week, the Treasury announced that it would lower the currency reporting threshold in 30 counties along the Mexican border from $10,000 down to $200 in attempts to fight gang activity – affecting anyone living in the area.
Over the past weeks, we have additionally seen a drastic increase in using deportations to prosecute political speech. Four days ago, a French space researcher was denied entry to the US for messages critical of Trump, which the administration allegedly described as ‘terrorism’.
This is the *second* major increase in financial surveillance in the US in the last two weeks.
If history has taught us anything, it should be that fascism does not stop at the people you don’t like.
Please zap/share this post as wide and far as you can – It was shadow banned on the free speech LARP for using banned words.
https://www.therage.co/irs-shares-tax-data-with-ice-dhs-deportations/