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/ScenicPineapple 8d ago

We are in the darkest times we have ever been in. We have a president who is ignoring all law and order in exchange for authoritarianism.

They have proven they are incompetent, running on revenge, and not upholding ANY promises they made during the campaign. Since they weren't able to find enough undocumented immigrants to fill their quotas, they are going for legal residents that don't align with their dictatorship.

This is straight up KIDNAPPING, it's illegal, and we have every right to charge this admin with crimes against humanity.

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u/elihu 8d ago

"These are the scariest times in my life."

Bernie Sanders

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5190322-berniesanders-elonmusk-threats/?tbref=hp

(That was a couple weeks ago.)

It's not much, but I wish we had this degree of transparent honesty about where we're at right now from more of our political leaders.