I know they don't care, but I think the Trump administration should think through the consequences of creating a an angry, violent class of stateless people that they don't have control over instead of assuming doing that solves the problem forever
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Ah, but they'd only be an issue if ex-citizens were able to speak and move and organize after deportation... throwing them to CECOT would be a quick and easy way to neutralize that risk. The US wouldn't be ceding control, just responsibility.
I was talking to a retired ICE agent the other day and they looked at me like I was a lunatic when I suggested that if this is how that agency is going to operate, it is 110% going to lead to people killing agents.
When the stakes go from “get in the van and face detention, a day in court, and potential deportation” to “get in the van and get disappeared to a Salvadoran gulag”, the alternative of “shoot it out with the people trying to get me into the van” suddenly becomes a lot more appealing.
And the thing is, most people will still go along. Vast majority.
But, like, even a small percentage of people thinking "this is my last chance, YOLO" is going to quickly change the perception. Might even only take a few acts to loom large in the societal psyche.
Regardless of your feelings on the merits. It is instructive how much violent yearning erupted in people's throats in the wake of Mangione and how every CEO into a bunker.
The sheer fact that it can happen at all will reshape perceptions in its wake.
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But, like, even a small percentage of people thinking "this is my last chance, YOLO" is going to quickly change the perception. Might even only take a few acts to loom large in the societal psyche.
The sheer fact that it can happen at all will reshape perceptions in its wake.