While the U.S. war against Iran may soon come to an end if the tentative deal agreed to on Sunday holds, President Donald Trump appears poised to launch another “unsuccessful war,” only this one targeting Americans, journalists Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng argued Wednesday in an analysis published in Zeteo.
A Trump advisor told Zeteo that they considered the tentative Iran deal a “good thing” given that it could help the administration renew its focus on Trump’s immigration crackdown.
“We need to focus on the terrorists here and the problems we have at home,” the advisor said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Various Trump officials have also hinted at a renewed surge in the president’s immigration crackdown. Border Czar Tom Homan, for instance, recently issued an ominous threat to Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul about an impending immigration enforcement operation in her state.
“You’re going to see more [Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents] than you’ve ever seen in New York City, and it’s coming,” Homan told Hochul, according to The Detroit News.
As such, Perez and Suebsaeng strongly suspected that the conclusion of the deeply unpopular U.S. war against Iran would only give birth to a new type of war, one that would amount to an “assault on Americans.”
“Trump never truly ended his siege of Minnesota, and he never stopped deploying violent, masked federal agents to kidnap immigrants and abuse U.S. citizens. But ever since he launched his illegal war on Iran in February, his administration has been largely consumed with waging that regional bloodbath, to the slight expense of his ability to wage war on his fellow citizens,” the analysis reads.
“Nowadays – that is, when they’re not contemplating invading Cuba next – various members of the Trumpworld elite want to get back to basics, meaning: finding new ways to terrorize people in the United States.”