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Eugene

(65,362 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:47 PM Tuesday

This Kansas town doesn't hate immigrants enough. So the Trump administration plots vengeance.

Source: Kansas Reflector

This Kansas town doesn’t hate immigrants enough. So the Trump administration plots vengeance.

Clay Wirestone
June 9, 2025 3:33 am

The Trump administration has put my town — the place my family and I call home — on its hit list for a thought crime.

What horrible thing have the people of Lawrence and wider Douglas County done to deserve this fate? Apparently, we don’t sufficiently detest immigrants.

Put questions of legal status aside. As we all know, it doesn’t matter to the hate-bloated buffoons in Washington, D.C., what papers a person has or doesn’t have. They will ship you off to a foreign gulag if you’re the wrong color or in the wrong place. Because Lawrence had the unmitigated audacity to care about people who look different, it has been threatened with the full wrath of the federal government.

It might be shocking, if so little was shocking these days.

The Department of Homeland Security posted a list of 500-plus “sanctuary jurisdictions” on its website May 29, highlighting cities and counties that supposedly run afoul of its anti-immigrant agenda. Three days later, officials took down the page after an outcry from local law enforcement. Thanks to the Internet Archive, you can still browse the list and read the government’s inflammatory rhetoric: “DHS demands that these jurisdictions immediately review and revise their policies to align with Federal immigration laws and renew their obligation to protect American citizens, not dangerous illegal aliens.”

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Read more: https://kansasreflector.com/2025/06/09/this-kansas-town-doesnt-hate-immigrants-enough-so-the-trump-administration-plots-vengeance/

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This Kansas town doesn't hate immigrants enough. So the Trump administration plots vengeance. (Original Post) Eugene Tuesday OP
Boo on t-rump and his schemes, I love Lawrence, went there many times when I lived in KC, OP and Emporia.. wcmagumba Tuesday #1
I lived there for a time while attending KU. lastlib Yesterday #2

wcmagumba

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1. Boo on t-rump and his schemes, I love Lawrence, went there many times when I lived in KC, OP and Emporia..
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 07:52 PM
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I went for concerts at a nice downtown hall (like the Goodtime Radio Review), for dining and for Jayhawk BB games. Eff t-rump...

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