Shortly before the new year, the US Department of Homeland Security published a post on Platform X in which it romanticized the deportations of immigrants. You can see the work “Impender Beach” by the artist Hiroshi Nagai, on which the sentence “America after 100 million deportations” is placed. The ministry writes: “The peace of a nation that is no longer besieged by the Third World.”
During the election campaign before his second inauguration, US President Donald Trump had already announced that he wanted to deport “millions and millions” of irregular migrants. The US authorities’ contribution is now taking on new dimensions and implies that they want to deport significantly more than those immigrants without papers, because: The number of illegal immigrants in the USA is only around 11 million.
Critics condemn the post and accuse the ministry of a National Socialist choice of words. “Nothing other than blatant Nazi propaganda,” writes one user on X. “How can this not be Nazi rhetoric,” writes another.
In New York, Trump opponent Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as the new mayor. The left-leaning Democrat and devout Muslim took his oath of office early Thursday morning in a disused subway station beneath City Hall. According to his office, the 34-year-old wanted to demonstrate his solidarity with the working population. The large and public inauguration will take place at noon in front of City Hall, led by left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders. Tens of thousands of people are expected.
Mamdani is an avowed socialist. He wants to make life in the extremely expensive metropolis of 8.5 million more affordable. Rents for more than a million apartments are to be frozen. Mamdani describes the right-wing populist US President Donald Trump as a “fascist”. At 34, Mamdani is one of the youngest mayors in New York history.
The Trump administration has canceled the lease on three public golf courses in Washington, giving President Donald Trump another opportunity to put his stamp on the nation’s capital. The National Links Trust, a nonprofit that has operated Washington’s three federal public golf courses for five years, said Wednesday that the Interior Department had terminated its 50-year lease. The organization disagreed.
