The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response. - ThreadSky

charlotteclymer.bsky.social • 8 hours ago

The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response.

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andydashiell.bsky.social•7 hours ago

If you were stopped on the street tomorrow morning, dragged off, and threatened with deportation, how would you prove your citizenship? I don’t go about my business w my passport or a copy of my birth certificate (which only has my tiny footprints as photo ID) in my pocket.

detroit313girl.bsky.social•6 hours ago

You can get the passport card, it’s the size of a credit card, good for entry into certain countries but no international air travel use. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/card.html

coalj.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I'm definitely going to be carrying my passport with me 24/7 from now on.

coalj.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Not that it matters if they wanna kidnap and deport us anyways. But at least there's a chance to clear up a "mistaken kidnapping", maybe. Fuck this shit.

lluck002.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I’ve started carrying a copy of my birth certificate with me every time I leave the house. It sucks, but it’s where we are.

tsmanning.bsky.social•5 hours ago

It's horrible to feel you have to do that; I grew up and lived in the UK, and the idea of having to do that would have been completely alien. Living in Germany (as in most EU countries), I now have an ID card, but it's a useful and positive symbol of identity and belonging, not a defensive tactic.

lluck002.bsky.social•4 hours ago

ID isn’t enough here. We all have IDs. But it doesn’t prove citizenship for us. I’m a target since I’m multi-racial and gay. They want an excuse to deport me. But I was born here and can prove it on the spot. They will not disappear me! I refuse!

tsmanning.bsky.social•3 hours ago

No, you're right to take precautions, given the way things are. Here, my ID card does prove citizenship and I can use it instead of a passport across the EU. That aside, we're not immune to events in the US, as Vance and Musk are actively supporting neo-fascist politics in Germany.

sueafc.bsky.social•2 hours ago

These fuckers have already shown they will not respect the constitution or law. A Brit has been detained for 14 days and 2 German tourists similarly treated, I am sure they could detain and 'lose' Americans. Maga is in full nazi mode and the judiciary compromised.

lluck002.bsky.social•4 minutes ago

They already arrested a Mother, her Child, and the Grandmother, all United States Citizens, simply for speaking Spanish in public. They were sent to a detention camp. They’ve done so to Veteran Citizens too! American Citizens are absolutely getting mixed up in this. This is full-blown Nazism!

sueafc.bsky.social•1 hour ago

😬

andydashiell.bsky.social•7 hours ago

There’s only one (naturalized) citizen whose deportation would be of immediate benefit to the country. But I think even Leon deserves due process.

audrey60.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yep, Trump is working on the “i can deport citizens that are citizens just because they were born here because they are not really citizens like real people I know, like my third wife, and first wife”

akiva631.bsky.social•2 hours ago

And we've already seen it happen time and again where they round people up first, detain them, and then determine whether or not they've got the right people and then reluctantly let go those that they mistakenly detained. Soon they just won't care and ship them all out or put them in camps.

savvycammom.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Exactly. If he can deport an undocumented, a legal resident, or a naturalized citizen without due process, he most definitely can deport a born here citizen without due process. Wake the fuck up!

educationnow.bsky.social•12 minutes ago

Who the hell are the masked guards contributing to this immoral action?

krismgates.bsky.social•8 hours ago

During the campaign and after, the Musk/Ramaswamy contingent was all in favor of H1B visas for immigrants with specialized, needed skills, but now they're deporting those too! A kidney transplant specialist with a valid H1B visa! https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doctor-brown-university-deported-lebanon-despite-us-judges-order-2025-03-16/

samwyzh.bsky.social•8 hours ago

How do we know the people deported to El Salvador were not US citizens? Rubio/Trump admin has a habit of calling citizens non-citizens. It is possible those deported included a US citizen in the wrong place at the wrong time.

manikowsky32.bsky.social•5 hours ago

We don’t know if they were citizens, non-citizens here legally, here illegally, or what. We don’t know if they committed any crimes. The administration does not have a history of being trustworthy.

They could all be political enemies of Trump for all we know.

hal90001969.bsky.social•3 hours ago

They could. They could also be time travelers. They could also be space aliens. They could....be what they actually are, violent vicious thugs. But reality isn't sexy

hal90001969.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Be smarter than that. Pronouns...

bovey1982.bsky.social•1 hour ago

ICE is Trumps Gestapo America. MAGA are his brown shirts, supporters, informers, enablers.
If you think you’re safe then read about Hitlers Germany.
NO ONE IS SAFE.
He has shown he can deport anyone to an overseas jail. Literally anyone.

jeanpauldelier.bsky.social•2 hours ago

This is NOT just going to go away…the courts are not going to save us & Trump is not going to be “voted” out (remember Jan 6?) Time for SYMBOLIC gestures has long passed. Rallying & marches have little effect, random boycotts even less. Nationwide General Strike!
https://generalstrikeus.com/

persistmom.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It’s time. We must all stand up. Resist! Some of us will get hurt in the process. The only way this works is if there are so many of us that they can’t stop us all. Many Americans have risked more than we are being asked to risk for American values. I’m doing this for my child and your children.

debruhd.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Its already happened to a woman and a child.

msc98.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Most of the unfair treatment, harassment, bullying, unaliving, and property damage suffered on minority groups throughout the history in the great country 🗽🇺🇸 ⚖️ was the result of silent 🤫 🫣 complicity 🙈🙉🙊 the "if its not happening to me or mine," I have nothing to say.

coalj.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Truth

selenawrites.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Congress passed the Laken Riley Act a month ago. https://amicacenter.org/uncategorized/laken-riley-act-weakens-rights-to-due-process/

satiricalplanet.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Back in 1948, a group of intellectuals, including Albert Einstein (yes, that Einstein) and Hannah Arendt (who coined “the banality of evil”), sent a letter to The New York Times: “Maybe don’t prop up fascists?”
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/when-warnings-go-unheeded-how-to

notlikewe.bsky.social•8 hours ago

If something else doesn’t, this will be what triggers the less-than-good trouble.

hahnyock.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Don’t know that most people in the US are prepared to do that. By the time they are it could be too late.

notlikewe.bsky.social•7 hours ago

there are plenty of folks who are prepared to see what’s on the other side rather than live under facist rule

ledaeizenberg.bsky.social•8 hours ago

So quickly. They can scoop up anyone whose speech they don’t like. And it’s not going to get any easier to push back on them.

qtdesignz.bsky.social•1 hour ago

https://www.facebook.com/groups/6562212120496611/posts/9559275040790289/

savvycammom.bsky.social•41 minutes ago

It's 100% true. Here's their objective. Since climate change is melting our polar caps, two things have been discovered. First, there is now a much easier trade route through the artic from China. Russia and Canada operate those waters. 1

savvycammom.bsky.social•41 minutes ago

Secondly, there are massive amounts of minerals that the tech bros want to mine in the Arctic and Greenland. Now, you should understand why they fully intend to invade Canada and Greenland. 2

glacierpique.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The distance is zero.

tmurp1953.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The Regime will keep pushing the envelope for as long as they can get away with it.

genevieveweston.bsky.social•7 hours ago

We don't know that a U.S. citizen wasn't on the three flights this weekend because there was no due process.
We do know that ICE has arrested U.S. Citizens this year.
A Grandmother and Mother born in Puerto Rico were arrested and detained for a day in Milwaukee

jay2theworld.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yeah there’s just no telling when the usual government oversight that accounts for EVERY SINGLE PERSON AND DOLLAR stops doing that.

gcprotogen.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Absolutely. Including did something that really pisses me off. Arrested Native Americans. People who belong to this land more than some imbecile and his South African apartheid rat.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-immigration-raids-citizens-profiling-accusations-native-american-rcna189203

alphamelkyway.bsky.social•4 hours ago

USA counts as a USA territory tho thus born in Puerto Rico is a birth in the USA

alphamelkyway.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Yet Puerto Rico is of a colorful multi faceted layered community of many Opal esque phenotypical diverse arrays

Textures , dimensions

dianademarest.bsky.social•7 hours ago

My grandfather served in three branches of the military and served in two World Wars so we didn't have this Nazi shit here. It needs to end.

alphamelkyway.bsky.social•4 hours ago

So that we *wouldn’t* yet we would

While hoping not

alphamelkyway.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Knotting violence with necessary countering efforts

That consist of forms of violence too

That must struggle amidst opposing forces

How do we distinguish ?! Blends and blurs

That’s tough!! We don’t!! That’s where further trouble & complications arise

yourliberalfriend.bsky.social•8 hours ago

It has happened to US citizens, too frequently under past administrations. And that was just bc of mistakes. So they will definitely remove citizens.

jefiner68.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Wait, didn't it just happen to a military member?

patrick6669.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Now it's not accidentally.

ghek.bsky.social•16 minutes ago

Like I said, the guy is a test subject to see how far they can go.

On a personal note:
I won’t be making it easy for these law breakers to get me.
STAND YOUR GROUND AMERICA!

jxxmxx.bsky.social•7 hours ago

A hallmark of authoritarian rule is the contestation of reality. What is known. What is hidden. What is flipped upside down. What in plain sight is denied. Not only will that distance between non-citizen and citizen vanish, but we'll be arguing over reality itself, while reality is happening.

dadhyde.bsky.social•7 hours ago

This is the "and then they came for me" portion of the problem.

agentsmithy.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The Venezualans and Germans are just the tester, to see how much pushback a series of citizen disappearances actually get

fodo-liath252.bsky.social•1 hour ago

The government has become the illegal, the criminal and the traitor to freedom.

guerillawomaning.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I became a citizen last spring for fear he would get in and it’s given me a degree of comfort this last 60 days. Not so much anymore.

jainabledsoe.bsky.social•8 hours ago

They don't understand that with the for-profit incentive, the rest of us deemed "undesirable" will be seen as a possible revenue stream.

jamesdreamweaver.bsky.social•7 hours ago

It's legalized slave labor for fucks sakes.

suanish.bsky.social•7 hours ago

It’s like harvesting in a grade B space horror movie

macburns.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Dames and Dudes only people who lived here before White people came can tell you to leave.

nickmas.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Ignoring the courts is a move of a fascist dictator. We need to take serious action above and beyond marches. We need to take serious lengthy economic action. Because the fascist is backed by several powerful oligarchs.

We need a permanent blackout until we achieve regime change.

Please share!

eye-luv-ewe.bsky.social•1 hour ago

like that child with brain cancer from texas?

already happening

nissimss.bsky.social•7 hours ago

First they came for....

joekatz45.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Given that "without due process" takes away opportunities to demonstrate that you're a citizen, I'd say the distance is zero

joekatz45.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Unless I'm completely missing something here

jay2theworld.bsky.social•7 hours ago

If you’re missing a maga brain you would be “missing something here” or something 🤷‍♂️😂🤦‍♂️

jefiner68.bsky.social•8 hours ago

That's hella short

joekatz45.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I might be wrong is the thing

jefiner68.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I mean, I think that's what she meant. Like shorter to the length of zero.

charlotteclymer.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I'd say you're absolutely correct.

fdm2.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Then add the twist of ending birthright citizenship, unwinding naturalization of “undesirables,” and then declaring their kids not citizens.

anantesq.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yup. Many citizens don’t have a passprt; most don’t carry their passprts at all times; & most don’t have ready access to their birth/naturalization certificate. How is a person who doesn’t “look” like a citizen supposed to convince ICE otherwise, when they show up, arrest them, & put them on a plane

workingkind.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Scared for us all but must keep speaking up.

madgemlaments.bsky.social•5 minutes ago

“You are a citizen? Oops! Too late!”

jktalmadge.bsky.social•7 hours ago

A Permanent Resident (Green Card holder) is a U.S. Person under law and is afforded all rights granted by the Constitution.

unfrgvn2.bsky.social•4 hours ago

At some point, deportation will transition to executions. He didn't reinstate the death penalty on day one for no reason.

paula72.bsky.social•3 hours ago

It did happen- the 10 yo child with brain cancer- who is a citizen- was deported with her parents

kathryn3.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Here we go again

Who will speak for me?

#DumpTrump

mycologist.bsky.social•19 minutes ago

Stephen Miller was saying it out loud during the campaign - denaturalization. He's probably been quietly reviewing every immigration process since 1980, including adoptions. He believes he can revoke entire agencies, countries, etc rights to have come here.

prairiegirl.bsky.social•12 minutes ago

Do you guys still claim to be the greatest country on earth, or no?

mycologist.bsky.social•5 minutes ago

Any white folks in so called North America claiming superiority should be deported.

teamx2024.bsky.social•3 hours ago

The USA is quickly becoming Nazified. How long will the Republic last before its completely under the boot of repression? Remain quiet and it will happen tomorrow. Hit the streets now and you might survive trump-Republicans.

alfalphamale.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Schumer is changing $50 to enter his book Tour. Sellout. Blackrock and Israel paid him off

johnnyfreeusa.bsky.social•6 hours ago

With this administration it's only a matter of time before we start hearing 3am knocks at the door.

humanity1.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It’s a set up to deport ANYONE that revolts against the Dictator.

fightlies.bsky.social•7 hours ago

U.S. Constitution, Art III:

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, AND IN SUCH INFERIOR COURTS as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

The judicial Power shall extend to ALL Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution...

gcprotogen.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Um already happened. Including Native Americans, who trace back before this country even existed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-immigration-raids-citizens-profiling-accusations-native-american-rcna189203

khegler2024.bsky.social•7 hours ago

This is not legal it's kidnapping.

valearle.bsky.social•1 hour ago

A native born citizen who the government deems an enemy can be picked up and disappeared. Blonde haired and blue eyed. White as a ghost. They’ll snatch y’all up, too, send you to El Salvador or Guantanamo to never be heard from again.

applesandoranges1.bsky.social•1 hour ago

And when they decide it’s too expensive to deport, they’ll hold people in camps and make them work. See also concentration camps.

deebrennerart.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Silence is the voice of complicity.

txkathy.bsky.social•7 hours ago

They already have. And they knew that little girl was a citizen.

smashie603.bsky.social•3 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/smashie603.bsky.social/post/3lkk7ybanrk2q

mel-med-larson.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Can’t accept one
Without expecting
Another
🦋🩵

phelpsyau.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The Dems need to be very clear that anyone involved in such illegal activities will be dealt with when they eventually get power - or is that “if”

phelpsyau.bsky.social•6 hours ago

They already have deported a legal citizen - the young child born in the US with her two undocumented parents.

therobvoigt.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Good to see that there is a Nuremberg in the USA too.

They better start building a big fucking courthouse for the post-nazi reckoning

patrick6669.bsky.social•8 hours ago

They have already deported USA citizens.

lbweaver.bsky.social•7 hours ago

My ancestors were mostly English and Irish, with a little French thrown in. I’ll volunteer to be deported to any of those countries for a period of 3 years 10 months. I’m college educated, and have never been arrested. Is it weird to think about where we could be deported to?

coalj.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Concentration camps in South America. They won't send us to a cafe in France or Ireland.

m0n90053.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I used to think (on the basis of common usage) deportation could only happen to a non-citizen, but I looked it up a few years ago and all the word means is 'transporting someone out of the country' (or close enough), so really it can be done to anybody.

carolnissenson.bsky.social•1 hour ago

This is what I argued in a rather long discussion with my husband who is still upset (as am I) about the Columbia demonstrations. It doesn’t matter what an individual did, it’s the illegality of their detention or deportation.

whereai.bsky.social•6 hours ago

King Jong Trump introduces:

The Patriotic Citizen Reinforcement & Social Harmony Act (PCRSHA) 2025:

Citizens failing to meet arbitrary "good citizen" standards (e.g., not clapping during Trump broadcasts or lacking approved MAGA bumper stickers) will be relocated overseas for national harmony.

democracyrocks.bsky.social•1 hour ago

There’s a big difference between being deported to your country of origen and being deported to a latin American prison as well.

aussiewitch.bsky.social•4 hours ago

reelpolitik-la.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Always en vogue

bookishindc.bsky.social•4 hours ago

In addition to the due process travesty, isn’t deportation supposed to be back to your country of origin? Is exile a new threat to immigrants (and anyone else caught in Trump’s dragnet)?

carlosamammal.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The little girl on her way to brain cancer therapy who was just deported with her parents IS a citizen! They won't let her return and stay with relatives! Make THAT make sense!

soundsgoodtome.bsky.social•7 hours ago

And an illegal resident is even easier to deport

southernkathleen.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Exactly, due process is our norm, suddenly we are secretly sending folks out of our country to a notorious gulag. NOPE

neon-destruction.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Let’s deport the maga turds to Russia next time we get someone who’s not a fascist running the country.

givinggarden.bsky.social•7 hours ago

How are you supposed to argue? I'm a citizen, here's my birth certificate; as they rip it up and take you in cuffs.

2boysandadog.bsky.social•7 hours ago

It gets worse by the minute

noahhunter.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Enemy of the state will be the phrase

alphamelkyway.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Wishing well

Will Smith

the USA Hollywood movie star

I haven’t gotten into this film yet am aware of the title&poster of the promotional advertisement

As a soldier amidst rubble

Shaved skull I believe with a strapped across his torso set of artillery

“Enemy of State” toffee guy

usairforcechief.bsky.social•4 hours ago

We’re playing a different game when this administration ignores court orders - it’s called authoritarian regime and we’re crossing that line. Fact checked - TRUE.

2kitties.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I’m so afraid for certain loved ones of mine who were born here but have Hispanic last names. After he took office the first time I made them get their passports but tried to get them to change their names. They didn’t and thought I worried too much.They think I worried then?? I’m a basket case now

writehere.bsky.social•4 hours ago

It already happened: She's a 10-year-old brain-cancer patient from Texas.

lavenia.bsky.social•7 hours ago

How many people of our generation used to bemoan that if only *they* were around when Hitler came into power, they would have stopped him cold. And you have MAGA cheering him on like lobotomized chickens.

malcolm55.bsky.social•4 hours ago

exile57.bsky.social•7 hours ago

@nytimes.com
@cbsnewsconfirmed.bsky.social
@nbcnews.com
@abcnetwork.bsky.social
@msnbc.com
@wsj.com
@schumer.senate.gov
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedem.bsky.social

elisajstewart.bsky.social•4 hours ago

No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law….

The 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution. It is the Bill of Rights that keeps all people within the borders of the United States free. The laws apply to all and protect us all.

idushka.bsky.social•1 hour ago

I became a citizen 15 years ago and for the first time I’m afraid to be deported for being naturalized, even though I work, pay taxes and I’m a law obeying citizen.

holdingupthesky.bsky.social•5 hours ago

…and the difference between disappearing a naturalized citizen and disappearing a birthright citizen is even shorter and how we in the US got to internment camps for Japanese-descent CITIZENS in WW2 @georgetakei.bsky.social knows

lundr.bsky.social•39 minutes ago

They have already deported a legal life-saving surgeon/professor and tortured - read that again- tortured a green card German just flying home to his US kid and spouse. ICE has embraced being the Gestapo and wants the leather coats.

iancharles007.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Elect a fascist get a fascist?

mshvan.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Every democrat except a handful of progressives. And the Clintons won’t say shit either. But they don’t hesitate to speak up about other stuff when it suits them

blueandsouthern.bsky.social•5 hours ago

This is what happens when a president has total immunity for official acts and presumptive immunity for (pretty much) everything else.

nedobis.bsky.social•2 hours ago

It already happened.

akw.bsky.social•1 hour ago

It already happened, to a child with cancer even

margiem.bsky.social•54 minutes ago

Every day call your reps and
Mike Johnson (202) 225-2777
John Thune (202) 224-2321
Chuck Schumer (202) 224-6542
Hakeem Jefferies (202) 225-5936

Call for impeachment or treason charges. Use 5calls.org if you need help.

srghart.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Yes, citizens will be deported both "by mistake" and deliberately. Good luck ever getting back home. No one in the GOP-controlled government will give a damn.