100%. No one should be getting sent from this country to an El Salvador prison, and it is enraging that people who live in a democracy and who claim to care about the rule of law would ever disagree.
Yeah! We have our own, homegrown system of unaccountable police brutality and corrupt private corporations paid to subdue minorities! Don't let our broken system go to waste!
This is right, of course. But we also need to keep making the argument about how indiscriminately they used the Alien Enemies Act. Even though criminal records shouldn’t matter, we have to hit them with everything we’ve got.
We Leftists wrote the Bill of Rights the way we did and shoved it down the throats of the right-wingers in 1791 for a reason, and we need to get up off or knees and demand that they live up to it, or the effort we put into it, and into defeating right-wingers in 1865 and 1945 were all for nothing.
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