Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Interesting first link,

“It is a violent and racist program, where people pretending to be violent ICE officers got to hold guns and fire them in role-play situations where agents pretended to be immigrants,” said Ian Head, Open Records project manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) a legal center advocating and defending human and constitutional rights.
https://documentedny.com/2024/10/01/ice-immigration-train-citizens-academy/

still had to be checked:

Without meaning to minimize possible gravity of the ICE training thing, before
getting to the comment on that one thought was that it could be a public relations thing ..
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-citizens-academy-civilians/ . Could be innocent, likely not. Good to know.

Agree Trump has likely been playing his love-to-be dictatorship scenario in his head ever since he had his first, 'i really am special' wank.

We've seen this before, still is bad:

It’s not just the Border Patrol Tactical Unit that has been called to duty in Portland. DHS has dispatched air marshals as well as the Customs and Border Protection Special Response Team and even members of the Coast Guard.
Your last link https://www.marketwatch.com/story/for-racial-justice-protests-trump-taps-homeland-security-bortac-squad-air-marshalls-and-coast-guard-2020-07-25