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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this “if it’s legal.” [...] Stephen Yale-Loehr, a retired immigration law professor at Cornell University, tells Rolling Stone he worries Trump could try to deport citizens anyway, court precedent be damned, given how the administration seems to be “attacking on all fronts and worrying later whether their actions are legal. So unfortunately, it would not surprise me if we saw at least one plane load of incarcerated U.S. citizens being shipped off to El Salvador.”

Oh, at least one

“It’s not like we would send everybody there — but depending on the case, it can be an option,” says one of the people familiar with the matter,

Riiiiight. That's what they said about the deportations, that it would only be the worst, most violent criminals taken into custody and returned home. Instead they're snatching people off the streets and out of their homes, throwing them into vans, moving them around the country so their families, friends and lawyers can't find them, and sending into a death camp that's not under control of US law, without due process and no possibility of return.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think they should do that to any US Citizen with 34 convictions or more… starting with the orange ones!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Funny thing is the criteria they talk about would impact Melania Trump and Elon Musk, both of whom became citizens under false pretenses.

The plan is of course to send people whose skin color is too dark or hold left-wing views to the death camp in El Salvador.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

All while they insist that it is impossible for them to have anyone returned from there; even if the person was sent there "by mistake " in direct violation of multiple court orders, even if there are court orders to repatriate the person, and even if those orders come from SCOTUS.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can't repatriate the dead.

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 month ago (31 children)

Buy a gun and fight for your life or you’ll die in prison.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (20 children)

If it comes down to that, we've already lost.

Right now, I'd advise people to do as much outreach as possible to people you know. If you're on commercial social media, post a screenshot, put the link in a comment. Send a DM. Put up stickers.

Building the level of support that would be necessary to win a revolution likely makes nonviolent paths such as impeachment possible.

The guns are to prevent violent suppression of that public support. Not as a first choice.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Let's be honest. If they come for you, you're going. Still, take someone with you on the way out.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Fucking fascist

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