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/char-liz-the-ron 8d ago

The first group is immigrants because Americans will turn a blind eye. The next group will be LGBTQ, starting with trans people. Then they will move on to the rest of them. Keep your powder dry and stay frosty.

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u/fixxer_s 8d ago

Immigrants are also first due to the statistical certainty that within that group, they include some who are also among other groups. Normalising based on one trait they dislike, and making it easier to dispose of others. Maybe it is time to use our powder?