Meanwhile:

Trump confirms plans to use military for mass deportations

I don't care what you call it, doesn't sound great to me. Sounds martial-y. Maybe the Trump admin will accidentally declare "marital" law, and we can sue for divorce and damages. They learned about this one in the past, but spellcheck won't flag "marital" either.

Texas shows off 1,400 acres offered for Trump deportation camp and promises more land. Very generous. Are they planning to build airports? Is the symbolic gesture of this location being very near the border worth more on the public perception market than it is in limiting actual deportation (flights) logistics?

I still suspect that if the Trump administration is relatively serious about its deportation goals, it could change my daily life, as the fed presence inevitably builds and camps are built nearer metroplexes, for convenience. Stephen Miller, for one, will be pushing pretty hard for Big Deportation, against the bureaucracy he plans to torch, while simultaneously shoring up a deportations admin structure. I think they'll take anything they can get, and shoot for the moon. What else are they doing? Pulling the down-egg-prices lever? Abraham Accords 2? lol

I really didn't want to find out if they were serious about this but we damn sure will. Maybe they'll put 5 million migrants on those 1,400 acres at the Texas border, attack Mexico, and cede the land. I mean look I should be on team Trump; tactical genius, here

edit: to immortalize this; if you need a "national emergency" of ever-worsening conditions, going hard into a botched mass deportation attempt lets you blame the immigrants unambiguously and justify removing other civil liberties. If you want to create some good crimes, lock up the asylum seekers (he still thinks they all come from a literal insane asylum, btw, that's where the hannibal lector stuff in his rally speech repertoire came from) and others who have overstayed their visas, etc., in terribly insecure prisons. Maybe even let some out to chase 'em and get on the news. That actually is the whole game! The optics. And MAGA will want big camps and big numbers. Hell, they'll want to join as deputies. But also, the Trump admin may deputize the worst people in positions of authority anywhere in America, local PDs. They've put at least some thought into the deportations. Not enough for it to go well, because that's impossible, and nor is it the intent, actually. But they seem pretty serious, to me. The will is there. Hopefully the legal and bureaucratic resistance is too, but SCOTUS is donezo. Regardless, these ideas for what the government should do are fuckin' terrible. And where is that other guy, JV Dance?

edit2: also, do you really think we should be talking shit when South Korea's legal reps in the same party as the president got their asses into congress and said "fuck no you don't"? Some of ours got back into congress and said "Let's see if we can still do it". And then we elected the coup godfather four years later. That president will be impeached, convicted, and jettisoned from polite society, I'll bet you. South Korea showed us all something today.