The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Angrboda]

Before the Trump administration this week directed federal prosecutors to investigate and potentially prosecute state and local officials who don’t cooperate with mass deportation efforts, nearly 250 letters threatening such outcomes were sent in late December to officials in jurisdictions across the country.

At the time, the letters — from a nonprofit group called America First Legal that warned of “long prison sentences” — were widely dismissed. Some officials said the letters inaccurately characterized their governments as “sanctuary” jurisdictions that actively harbored people who are in the country illegally and resisted attempts to deport them.

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Meanwhile, the America First Legal attorney who signed the letters, James Kenneth Rogers, is trying to start a new religion that, among other things, decries “Wokism” and prohibits the consumption of gluten.

“When Troy, Rome and Constantinople fell, their olive groves burned and their vineyards were trampled underfoot, the fruits of their past labors kept out of reach,” says a prescription for Easter rites laid out in Rogers’s self-published book, called “The Triple Path,” echoing a Judaic rite for Passover when instructing adherents to eat gluten-free crackers with grated horseradish. “All they had to eat were the bitterness of poverty, humiliation and subjugation. Let us eat bitter herbs to remember the bitterness of those times.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigrati...en-miller/