r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • 8d ago

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/Competitive-Bike-277 8d ago

Yes. There aren't supposed to be secret arrests in the U.S. this is a blatant violation of the constitution. 

These people are nazis.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

LOL ICE been deporting ppl since bush and obama

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u/emptyflask 8d ago

ICE has no authority to deport legal residents over speech that the administration doesn't like.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Authorities have the right to cancel visas of foreigners holding harmful views since the 50's. So yep, deportation!

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u/emptyflask 8d ago

Oh, right, the golden era of McCarthyism that we should strive to repeat.

I guess the first amendment only applies to conservatives now.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Funny how you were fine when Biden, Obama were using McCarthyism. Now that hamas supporters are being deported you have a problem.

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u/emptyflask 8d ago

If Biden or Obama did that, I would have had a problem with it as well. As far as I know, Biden didn't detain anyone for writing about his support of Israel.