r/law • u/TheWayToBeauty • 6d ago

Legal News The Trump administration’s roundup of student protesters is genuinely shocking

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-student-protesters-immigration
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u/thedoogster 6d ago

And I was told I was “stupid” to compare the Trump Admin to a dictatorship. I was told I clearly didn’t know anything about dictatorships if I would make that “stupid” comparison.

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u/Desperate-Pear-860 6d ago

Everything I've said would happen has happened so far. I said they'd be rounding up citizens and detaining them. It's happening. Welcome to the 4th Reich.

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u/Meowakin 6d ago

Technically they have just rounded up illegal aliens and legal residents. Any citizens that have gotten caught up in the net so far have only been poorly treated for several hours before they realized their mistake and let them go. That I have heard of, at any rate.

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u/Embarrassed-Ice-8951 6d ago

There could be citizens locked up in the prison in El Salvador. Without due process, we just don’t know.

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u/GGRitoMonkies 6d ago

Yep, I trust the US government's word about as far as I could throw Trump and being as I'm a skinny old guy with no upper body strength.... Well you get the picture.

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u/Meowakin 6d ago

Possibly, but I think that would have come out by now. I don’t think anyone should be deported to a foreign prison, regardless.

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u/Shadow_Phoenix951 6d ago

How would it have come out exactly?

If I disappeared tomorrow without a court case, it isn't making national news. I don't have a powerful lawyer and rich friends and family to fight for me, I'm not a well known individual that people would notice if I disappeared.

I'd imagine the same is true to an even greater degree for most of the individuals captured.

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u/Meowakin 5d ago

In this particular case, it’s because this particular case has national attention and people are digging and looking for relatives. You aren’t wrong though that it’s a real concern.