Doesn't it feel like we're being occupied—maybe even invaded—by the regime's forces? By ICE and similar goon sourcing orgs like the National Guard? Doesn't it seem like the regime is deliberately escalating violence, hoping for a violent response so they can justify even more repression?
Picture this: You're just sitting at brunch with your girlfriend, enjoying a normal day in America. Then, out of nowhere, 12 to 20 heavily armed, masked ICE agents storm the restaurant. Flashbangs go off. Screams. "Everybody up! Immigration enforcement!" as they storm the restaurant in full military gear. How long until they are trained to shoot to kill while doing these raids in our communities?
Imagine this: You're at your child's fifth-grade graduation, a proud moment. Your family's been in America since the gold rush, 1865 at least. Grandparents, great-grandparents, all American. You're there with grandma, ready to cheer, take photos, celebrate. Then, armed ICE agents in tactical gear storm in, no badge numbers, no remorse. They rip kids off the stage, arrest families, beat people in front of children, you're children aren't "illegals" but they still lose their graduation. This isn't about immigration—it's about destroying communities, ramping up violence, and enforcing cruelty to sow chaos.
These ain't isolated incidents—it's happening in cities across the country. Consistently, and with actions escalating every day. Each raid more violent than the last. Blackhawk helicopters unloading muntions that would be used on who? Doesn't that strike you as completely outrageous?
LA PRIDE 2025 JUNE 8th. A military Blackhawk helicopter is unloading dozens of boxes of weapons and ammunition in Los Angeles "as if they were getting ready for a major battle."
This affects entire communities, not just undocumented immigrants. Your family might have been here 150 years, but your kids' caregivers or coworkers could be undocumented. Some of the hardest-working people in this country are undocumented. Solidarity belongs with working-class people, not with those who decide who's "illegal" to enrich themselves. They'd label you illegal if it lined their pocketbooks.
Let's cut back to the George Floyd protests. Washington, DC was a rowdy, rowdy place. Instead of using the DC National Guard, the Trump administration sourced National Guard members from Utah to police DC. Why? The DC Guard, likely majority people of color and from the community, might share kinship with protestors. This is colonial occupation strategy 101: never let enforcers identify with the policed. Deploying external forces from Utah signals a lack of confidence in internal cohesion.
The decision to bring in outside forces during the D.C. protests suggests the regime questioned whether the local Guard would comply. It admits the possibility that class or racial solidarity could override orders—that some members of the regime's army would defect if ordered to kill protestors in their own communities. If the powers that be had to consider that their own troops might side with protestors, it shows their system's ideological control is thinning. When the ruling class doubts its soldiers loyalty, it reveals a structural weakness. That weakness, is our resistance. Our communities and our solidarity are their biggest fear.
To me, it's obvious: The regime wants chaos. They want tension. They want militarized police on every street, in every city. Those quiet brunches, those peaceful days out, those elementary school graduations—they're coming to an end, whether we like it or not. The regime isn't just allowing violence; they're forcing it into our streets by turning them into occupied territory.
The reality is the regime is operating in a way that will almost ensure martial law gets enacted in the near-term future—or that mass protests erupt because of the regime's actions, which then lets them enact martial law or worse. That's the regime's goal. The regime wants these exact actions they're taking. They want the raids. They want the militarized police. They want the armored vehicles and the flashbangs and the mobs of newly recruited officers and the National Guard people.
This crackdown has three goals: First, to harm undocumented people, especially people of color. Second, to sow chaos and fracture communities, turning us against each other. Third, to create an underclass Americans won't defend. When Trump says immigrants can't be truckers, and truckers cheer because it means less competition, that's how they break solidarity. That's how they divide the working class by creating an permanent, just like they did with slavery, the prison industrial complex and now with immigration.
They want all of that on the streets, in the cities, to make you feel like you have to respond. The regime is doing everything it can to create the conditions for violence. The regime is the one occupying our streets. The regime is the one sending in military weapons, helicopters, munitions and preparing for war against us. The regime is the one killing us in our streets. The regime is the one doing the no-knock raids. The regime is the one abducting children, separating them from their families. The regime is the one flash banging restaurants and abducting people on the streets as they just try to enjoy their day.
Ask yourself, has deploying the marines on American Soil against American citizens in American neighborhoods ever been a reasonable suggestion?
The regime wants you to accept that their violence is normal, natural, and there's nothing that can be done. They want it to become part of the day-to-day. "Oh yeah, sure, there's US Marines on the streets of LA. Yeah, there's militarized ICE members on every corner. That's just part of life in America now."
Will we accept that? I sincerely doubt it. We're entering the cool zone. And it has nothing to do with what we're pushing and everything to do with what they're forcing upon us. You don't build the terrain, you navigate it.
This isn't about immigration. This is domestic counterinsurgency against a population not yet in open revolt. It's preemptive occupation. And their greatest weapon is the illusion that it's too late to resist.