Proof that even judges are not immune from Godwin’s Law (putting aside whether Godwin’s Law technically applies to offline communications), last week federal appeals judge Patricia Millet told a Justice Department lawyer during a court hearing about Venezuelan immigrants that “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act.”
The people in question, scooped up and shipped to a torture and slave labor prison in El Salvador, were detained and deported without even the pretense of due process. It appears the main criteria employed by the Trump administration in selection was…whether someone had a tattoo. That’s it. A tattoo is now enough to get you clapped in chains and sent on a plane to a torture prison, regardless of whether, say, you have legal refugee status. The cruelty is the point. The fear is the point. This administration wants everyone to think that at any time, the hammer can and will fall on them.
(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. If you think that the judge was overreacting, read this and then draw your own conclusions.)