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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/bigdumb78910 8d ago edited 8d ago

Moreover, if legal migrants do not have due process, then no one is guaranteed due process, because without due process, there's no way you can assert that you are or aren't a citizen.

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u/Hondros 8d ago

And to that they all say "well don't break the law". Like what do we do when this country is hell bent on destroying itself

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u/whoopashigitt Ohio 8d ago

And political speech isn’t breaking the law. The goal posts are always moved with no logic at all. 

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u/whoopashigitt Ohio 8d ago

They will assert you are or aren’t a citizen only on the basis of skin color or maybe if you aren’t speaking ‘like an American’

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Except this IS due process since ICE was founded