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These kidnappings have been targeted in areas run by the president's political opponents and rely on openly confrontational tactics designed to produce a backlash in order to justify militarizing American cities.

On the other hand, it’s the U.S. and Europe, Diamond’s symbols of modernity, that tend to impose the greatest restrictions with their militarized borders and deportation regimes.

Guardsmen in L.A. expressed the same kind of trepidation about bringing militarized force to bear on the strikers.

Having militarized federal cops and active duty troops raiding our neighborhoods and violently grabbing people off the streets is the real invasion, not the people who've been living and working here forever.

If Trump launches mass deportations that feature militarized internment camps for undocumented immigrants in this country, that will also be another inflection point.