This is not a new development anyone paying attention knows this ship left so long ago it has already arrived at its destination. The joy with which he tear gases civilians, children… in a functional democracy he would be in prison awaiting trial already

It should be a giant scandal that an only-recently retired top American immigration official — who led the Trump administration’s siege and occupation of Chicago and Minneapolis by border patrol agents, terrorizing immigrant families and killing two protesters — has admitted to an ongoing relationship with someone like Sellner.

At age 17, Sellner admitted to vandalizing a Vienna synagogue with a swastika. Years later, he became a leader in Generation Identity, the pan-European white nationalist group. In 2019, he accepted a donation from, and exchanged emails with, a man named Brenton Tarrant, who a short time later massacred 51 Muslims at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

In 2023, an investigation by the news outlet Correctiv found that Sellner orchestrated a clandestine gathering with members of the German political party AfD to hash out a “remigration” plan that would expel all refugees and immigrants, regardless of their legal status, along with “unassimilated citizens,” from Germany, sending them to a “model state” in North Africa.

Budget Orson Krennic.