PALM BEACH, FL — July 7, 2025

In a bold reinterpretation of immigration enforcement, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order this morning declaring all Trump-owned properties to be “Federal Sanctuary Sites for Exceptional Immigrants.”

The order, titled “The Outstanding Migrants Welcome Act (OMWA)”, stipulates that any undocumented worker currently employed by a Trump Organization property shall be granted “temporary elite immunity” in recognition of their contributions to “world-class golf course maintenance, discreet housekeeping, and unparalleled omelet stations.”

“We’re not talking about the bad ones,” Trump clarified at a press conference held on the 14th green of Trump National Doral.
“These are the good illegals. The classy ones. Some of them even know how to fold a towel into a swan. That’s not something Americans want to do.”

🛡️ Legal Protection for Luxury Labor
According to the new order:

ICE agents must obtain written approval from the Trump Organization before initiating any enforcement actions within 500 feet of designated properties.

Any detained workers employed by Trump properties will be immediately released and provided with a Certificate of Exceptional Contribution to American Hospitality.

Workers fluent in both Spanish and golf course etiquette may be eligible for fast-tracked citizenship, assuming they agree to sign a strict NDA and work holidays.

📉 Critics Call It “Sanctuary City for the Rich”
Legal experts and satire columnists alike have dubbed the move “Sanctuary City: Trump Edition,” noting that while immigrant families across America face detention and deportation, Trump’s landscapers now have more legal protection than public school teachers.

“This is like declaring your own refrigerator a calorie-free zone,” said constitutional scholar Lorraine Bakshi. “It doesn’t change the law—it just rebrands your hypocrisy.”

🧼 Coming Soon: Sanctuary Services, Inc.
In a final flourish, Trump hinted at a new venture: Sanctuary Services, Inc., a “compliance consultancy” to help other billionaires transform their estates into protected zones.

“It’s simple,” Trump said. “You build a wall around your property, call it a sanctuary, and boom—legal.”

Sources confirm that ICE agents were spotted later that afternoon… mowing the 6th fairway.

✨ The Paradox of Politeness and Brutality

Japan is a society often admired for its intense social order, humility, and almost pathological politeness. People bow instead of argue. Conflicts are defused through silence, not aggression. And yet, this same culture birthed one of the most feared and sadistic military police forces in 20th century history: the Kempeitai.

For American readers unfamiliar with the term, the Kempeitai were Japan’s military police from the late 19th century through World War II. Nominally tasked with enforcing discipline and protecting national security, they became infamous for arbitrary arrests, torture, forced confessions, and ideological cleansing. In occupied territories—especially Korea, China, and Southeast Asia—they operated as a kind of unregulated secret police. Their mission wasn’t law enforcement. It was control through fear.

🕵️ ICE and the Specter of Historical Repetition

What does this have to do with the United States and ICE?

Everything.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) was created in the wake of 9/11, as part of a national security reorganization. But its operational focus has increasingly drifted from security toward the use of psychological fear as a compliance tool—targeting undocumented workers, not employers, and using militarized raids that disproportionately affect the poor, the brown, and the voiceless.

Despite this, ICE does not conduct high-profile raids at elite institutions. You won’t see agents in tactical gear storming a country club kitchen in a wealthy neighborhood or seizing workers from a Fortune 500 retailer. Instead, they hit mom-and-pop restaurants, construction crews, and trailer parks. Not because those are the biggest offenders—but because they can.

Why? Because status insulates. Because real enforcement would trigger political backlash. Because it’s easier to terrify the vulnerable than to confront power.

⚠️ How Institutions Turn Cruel

This is where the real danger lies. Institutions like ICE don’t fall into cruelty—they recruit into it. The more visible the tactics of domination become, the more they attract a specific kind of personality: men drawn to power displays, unbothered by moral ambiguity, and thrilled by the optics of control. The empathetic quietly walk away. What remains is a culture increasingly shaped by those who enjoy the work—not in spite of the fear it causes, but because of it. Over time, enforcement morphs into ideology, and cruelty into identity.

And once that loop takes hold, cruelty stops being a mistake. It becomes policy.

The parallels to the Kempeitai are not exact. But they are real. The Kempeitai started as law enforcers and became instruments of state terror, powered not just by command, but by culture. ICE is still in its early stages—but the signs are flashing red:

• Tactical raids meant to intimidate rather than apprehend.
• Public confusion between legality and performative enforcement.
• A labor market that depends on undocumented workers while criminalizing their existence.
• A recruiting pattern that favors domination over empathy.

ICE is not yet the Kempeitai. But the vector is visible. And it won’t correct itself.

❗ A Warning, Not a Prediction

The question isn’t “Can ICE turn into the Kempeitai?” They can.

The question is: What will stop them?

Something had better.

📡 The Invisible System

Americans like to pretend we have one economic system. Here in the real world, there’s a different kind of system—a system that doesn’t make headlines or trend on social media. It doesn’t need to. It operates quietly, efficiently, and with chilling consistency. It’s invisible to those it benefits, and unavoidable to those it exploits.

👷 The Man They Sent

In 2006, I hired a day laborer through a service. The dispatcher dropped him off at my house with all the reverence one might use when delivering a broken lawnmower. The man was middle-aged, Mexican, quiet. The dispatcher, maybe mid-20s, barked instructions at him like a child caught misbehaving in class.

🍽️ The First Meal

He worked hard. Quietly. Unfailingly polite. He complimented me on working alongside him, commenting that few people who hire him work alongside him. I invited him inside for lunch. We sat down and ate together. He told me that in five years of doing this work, no one had ever done that. Not once. That hit like a punch to the gut.

📦 The Corporate Workaround

Then he told me how many major big-box retailers explain to him and others how they can work there. Not officially, of course. But unofficially, the system is clear: follow the script, stay quiet, don’t cause trouble. He told me about unloading a full tractor trailer of produce the day before. They handed him a W-9 with the same seriousness as a napkin. He threw it in the trash, exactly as expected.

🧾 The Paper Lie Let’s be honest: the W-9 wasn’t for him. It was for the system—to say, legally, “We gave him the form.” Everyone knows what happens next. He’s paid in cash. No paper trail. No protections. No retirement. No safety net. He can be replaced by sundown.

🧠 The Real Alignment Problem

This is the real alignment system. A human one. A national one.

🚨 Enforcement by Fear

It works because it’s ambiguously legal but brutally clear. Speak up? ICE. Report wage theft? ICE. Get injured and complain? There’s a clipboard with your name on it, and a one-way ticket back across a line someone else drew.

📺 Public Apathy

And the American public? Mostly oblivious. Or worse, willfully ignorant.

🔒 The Most Obedient Workforce

The average voter thinks undocumented workers are “getting away with something.” In reality, they are the most structurally obedient labor force in the country. They don’t need supervisors—they have fear. And fear scales well.

🔇 Voices Unheard

Millions of voices like his go unheard. Because the system doesn’t just tolerate exploitation—it requires it.

⚡ Welcome to the Third Rail