Americans need to wake up, wise up, and stand up to Trump

In his recently passed and so-called Big Beautiful Bill, Trump gave ICE a whopping $75-billion in new funding. That will enable the force to hire 10,000 new agents. When that happens, ICE will be larger than all the other U.S. federal law enforcement agencies combined.

U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured signing an executive order in the Oval Office on April 23, 2025, has built a modern-day American concentration camp, Alligator Alcatraz, in the Florida Everglades, writes Michael Harris. Photograph courtesy of White House photographer Molly Riley via Flickr

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

July 21, 2025

HALIFAX—The day is coming when all of us will be asked this question by our children and grandchildren: what did you do while United States President Donald Trump was deconstructing democracy in America, and snuggling up to dictators around the word?

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