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Soft Paywall The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate” | The national-security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.

https://newrepublic.com/article/193291/trump-disappearing-students-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-biggest-scandal
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u/sundy1234 Iowa 8d ago

It’s legal if he says it is

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u/M-Dan18127 8d ago

"if you're a celebrity they let you do it"

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u/lxpnh98_2 8d ago

Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.