good immigrants and bad immigrants
The notion that there are "good" immigrants or people of color who deserve rights, and "bad" immigrants or people of color who deserve mass incarceration and other state violence, has its roots in the Clinton years. in the early 90s this sorting of human beings into desirable and undesirable categories was part of a vague rhetorical strategy used by Democrats to garner votes, but has since grown into the ideological pretext for the arbitrary, fully militarized police state we have today.
I remember nervous white voters asking candidate Clinton whether rap music was destroying our society. Instead of giving the correct answer ("no"), Clinton said it depended on whether the song had a happy ending, one that reinforced whatever he deemed to be proper moral values. (Yes same Bill Clinton whose moral values include sex trafficking of underage girls.) Millions of white parents breathed a sigh of relief and put him in the white house, dubbed him "the first black president," and made him fabulously rich.
Fast forward to today. Democratic and media "opposition" complain that ICE is erroneously going after the “good guys.” Although ICE has killed nine people in 2026, this “opposition” has mysteriously focused their sorrow almost exclusively on the two white ones. Meanwhile Democrats express open gratitude towards other arms of the unaccountable police state, including the police, who have murdered at least 71 people in 2026, far outnumbering ICE’s bodycount.
Democrats have taken to describing ICE as “Trump’s ICE,” as though no one was detained, deported, murdered, or separated from their families under Democratic administrations. This narrative that it’s a supreme outrage when Trump’s ICE murders a white person, but not particularly an outrage when ICE or any other arm of Trump’s, Biden’s, or Obama’s police state murders someone black or brown, is exactly what it sounds like: vile racism. A trashing of human life.
Rather than ever proposing to abolish ICE or even reduce its funding, Democrats absurdly suggest that we owe it more money. They propose that this will be used for additional training to guide agents towards making "better" snap decisions about whom to tackle, pepper spray, abduct, or assassinate without trial. Notice how these Democrats aren't questioning the morality or logic of the atrocities themselves. Nor questioning why the administrators of civil cases would need to be armed in the first place. Nor spelling out any clear grounds for how anyone could possibly “deserve” such violence without a trial.
Democrats are also suggesting that we owe ICE more money to buy them bodycams. This trick goes back to the Obama years. Police were desperate for bodycams to enhance their own surveillance of targeted populations, but were unable to get it passed until Obama collaborated with them to swindle the public into believing it was a “reform.” It was also under Obama that the use of special Pentagon programs facilitating the transfer of military weapons to domestic security forces was massively accelerated. The predictable result of these policies was an increase in police murders.
Americans right now are in no mood to have their dissent quelled by ice, the national guard, or the police, deployed by politicians of any party. And registered Democrats in particular are in no mood to listen to their elected representatives say they oppose Trump, then turn around and line up with his worst policies: overfunding and militarizing the police state, overfunding the Pentagon, and funding genocide, while bringing ordinary people to financial ruin in the process.
Leaked memos prove what everyone can already plainly see: ice's actions have little to do with immigration, everything to do with profit and politics. Capitalists of either party love immigration, especially undocumented immigration. It means they can pay people illegal starvation wages. But only if those people are terrified of asking for more. Thus we have ICE.
This is the same war it's always been in this country: keeping people of color and the left subservient. From day one it's been waged by our two capitalist parties, who don’t want their economic system disrupted, and don’t want any non-capitalist parties coming along. Of course the two parties sell it as a war of “Republicans against Democrats.” Many witless ICE agents seem to believe that they're "owning the libs." But the generals of this war know perfectly well who and what they’re protecting.
Why would the country’s ruling class want to wage a war against their own left and people of color? For the same reason they wage wars abroad, from Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan to Venezuela to Palestine. For the same reason they targeted the Black Panthers or the anti-genocide movement at home. To remove from circulation those "bad influences" who inconvenience the capitalist status quo. They do this over and over and over, by military invasions, by abductions, by long haul prison sentences, by deportations, by starvation, or by assassinations.
Since the days of the first Venetian capitalists plundering Asia for spices, capitalism has required an underclass in order to operate. the white Europeans who first imposed capitalism upon humanity, and the white North Americans who still uphold it like a religion, have always used skin color and political dissent as handy excuses for perpetually consigning certain populations to this underclass -- though always with high-profile exceptions for those who overcome the odds and “deserve” their graduation from a permanent underclass that no humane society would even allow to exist.
As the capitalist class now degrades the planet and the social safety net to the extent that masses of human beings now find themselves in unlivable conditions -- and as the capitalist class finds it increasingly difficult to continue boosting profit margins without investing in mass death -- the capitalist class is beginning to find it expedient to criminalize the survival instinct itself. Thus flinching or trying to get away when a gun gets pointed in your face is now a capital crime. Migration from a place that has been rendered uninhabitable is now a capital crime.
Our capitalist duopoly has created a kind of apartheid. Different sets of rules govern whether one is permitted the luxury of a survival instinct. One set of rules for the ownership class itself, who live in fabulous wealth, power, fame, and Epstein hot tubs. Another for their militarized agents, permitted any atrocity as long as they can say they got nervous. Another for the precariously protected class of mostly white people whom the system deems bootlicking stooges enough to let live. And one for the growing humber of people whom the system suspects might have cause to take issue with the racialized, militarized capitalist system itself. The right to self-defense does not apply to this group.
This racial profiling so universal to U.S. law enforcement is ironic proof that capitalists and their armed agents are fully aware of the fundamental injustice of our society. They get jumpy around those demographic groups that are more likely to have had firsthand experience of the poverty that capitalism demands of some portion of its subjects. ICE and the rest of the U.S. police state is a mechanism to legally turn white nervousness into “justified” murder.
The term “necrocapitalism” describes an economic system which prioritizes continuous profit growth for the ownership class, but requires increasing amounts of mass death for the system to sustain itself. Necrocapitalism is epitomized by the U.S. When possible, the media arm of the ownership class ignores mass death (e.g. not reporting on global warming), but when forced to acknowledge it, will find ways of framing the mass death as “deserved,” by employing words like “war,” “terrorist,” “criminal,” “undocumented,” “no angel,” etc.
Democrats are the normalizers of necrocapitalism. Republicans, with fear as their goal, tend to make more of a gladiatorial spectacle of mass death. But Democrats prefer to hide it behind technocratic “imperatives.” They invoke their “fiduciary responsibility” to fund the military industrial complex, or the police state, or border violence, or fossil fuel/big pharma/big tech, or handouts to Wall St, or genocides. They prefer that the population “leave it to the experts” and go to brunch, and many of their biggest cheerleaders are happy to do just that.
Democrats and Republicans both now adhere to necrocapitalism on principle. Necrocapitalists like RFK Jr move freely and indifferently between the two, devising money-saving schemes for the the liquidation of additional human beings. Trump’s Border Czar Thomas Homan was first hired by Obama, who awarded him the highest civil service award in the U.S. for his extraordinary deportation numbers, helping Obama turn ICE from a fledgling agency into a nationwide network of detention centers, expanding it from 14 counties to every county in the U.S., and increasing its funding 300%.
This utter devaluation of human life is exactly what billionaires, and their employees in both parties of government, hope to normalize and turn into mere background noise. It hardly matters if this or that wealthy or powerful individual behaves in an overtly racist manner in their personal day-to-day. These worshipers of capitalism know that to keep the profit machine running, some must be sacrificed. so Democrats and Republicans spend stupendous sums of your money and time constructing false narratives meant to guide public opinion towards learning to tolerate growing amounts of mass unnecessary death.
Like all empires, ours has had its run. The exciting rise, the memorable peak, the sorrowful decline. It has now entered its final stages, a cesspool of ruin, decay, depravity and violence. Its subjects have understandably had enough.