Republican congressmen are now talking about throwing migrants from helicopters | Moustafa Bayoumi

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : As HuffPost's Christopher Mathias, who covers the far right, put it on X: "So we have a congressman joking or not joking about extrajudicially executing a migrant arrested for a crime (allegedly assaulting a cop) that tons of non-migrant citizens get arrested for too."
46% : Anti-migrant rhetoric has reached the point of a congressman citing a far-right meme about Augusto Pinochet's death-flights Three years ago, the Intercept published an illuminating article about the rise of the "Hoppean snake" among far-right extremists, a meme which the Intercept labelled especially "disturbing for its frightening historical reference".
42% : " It's alarming to see such rhetoric from the far-right fringes; imagine seeing this kind of political violence being advocated by a sitting politician or someone seeking the highest office in the land.
33% : The New Yorker wrote that we should all be worried, not because of Trump but because of how unsettled the law actually is.
23% : Lawyers for Donald Trump told a federal appeals court last month that a president would basically be immune from prosecution if the president ordered "Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival", as a judge asked.

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