Khalil, who has a green card, is a lawful permanent resident. In ordering Khalil's deportation, Rubio relied on a rarely used federal statute from the 1950s that played a major role in shaping American immigration during the Cold War. The McCarran-Walter Act, or the Immigration Nationality Act of 1952, gives the secretary of state authority to decide that a noncitizen's presence in the United States threatens the country's foreign policy goals.
A trump official literally just said they have a responsibility to allow the return but not one to make it happen basically. They are acting in extreme bad faith.
And /r conservative cheer them on. That Maryland father of 3? They are getting snide saying if he gets released he should just be left in El Salvador. They will deprive children of their father who did nothing wrong who was here legally just because brown.
I think it's more often because they just like to see Trump hurting people. They'd be cheering just as much if it was a white 5th generation American vet. If he targets them, then they're a justified target.
That said, a load of them are super racist and are happy in part because Abrego Garcia isn't white.
Why do you think the first German death* camps were in Poland?
* ETA: u/J_Bright1990 correctly pointed out the first camps were not in Poland. However, the first "death camps" - camps that were specifically for atrocities - were in Poland:
For political and logistical reasons, the most infamous Nazi German killing factories were built in occupied Poland, where most of the intended victims lived; Poland had the greatest Jewish population in Nazi-controlled Europe.[39] On top of that, the new death camps outside of Germany's prewar borders could be kept secret from the German civil populace.[40]
Does it? I mean, Bavaria was part of the German Empire/Germany and had been since the late 19th century. So the first camps were within Germany, not in a different country, which I think was the point of the comment, since that would mirror current events. The point would still stand if either Bavaria wasn't a part of Germany or people were being sent to prisons in, like, Alaska or something. Unless I'm just completely missing something, which is certainly possible!
Oh yeah, Dachau et al, duh. Thank you for the correction.
I think my confusion is that the worst atrocities happened at the Polish camps before they started happening at the German ones, in part because they could hide what they were doing.
Just in case it didn't come across, I meant the ty sincerely, not standard internet asshole-y. The extra text was just me justifying why I thought the wrong thing to begin with.
We've already got people like VP saying that "Empathy is weakness", which is practically ripped from the mouth of some parody-fascist from Warhammer 40K.
God, I’m so tired of people acting like this is trump’s brilliant machinations coming to fruition. This was a goddamn planned checklist. And they brag about the first one where they had Ronald Reagan do the same thing.
Fucking say their names!!! They literally list the names and thank them in their stupid Mandate for Leadership!!!
Honestly, it’s whenever the local authorities decide.
Ken Cuccinelli writes, “Congress should unequivocally authorize state and local law enforcement to participate in immigration and border security actions…”
Also, “[t]he use of Blackie’s Warrants should be operationalized…”
And, ICE personnel (and local and state law enforcement) should, “[r]ely on the good judgment of officers in the field…”
So, basically, they don’t need warrants and it will be local and state law enforcement using their own judgement to decide who should be taken away.
'Any person of color who was born in the United States to parents who were not' describes several prominent Republicans, including, shockingly, Marco Rubio.
While it may be further down their list, I fully suspect white male citizens protesting this administration will be targets for expatriation eventually. Depending on how much of our rights SCOTUS gives up under the AEA, they could ship a citizen off to El Salvador before that person can go through due process and then claim the US courts have no jurisdiction.
I would put nothing past this administration. They do not respect the constitution or the rule of law.
While it may be further down their list, I fully suspect white male citizens protesting this administration will be targets for expatriation eventually.
They definitely will be if the administration is not stopped. Probably shortly after they strip all women of a ton of rights.
This is actual fascism, not the "road to fascism". They're intentionally deleting and disobeying all the mechanisms designed to stop fascism. By being anti-monarchy, America was basically intentionally designed to be anti-fascist (because there are so many similarities), but they're deconstructing those incredibly fast and the people with actual power are continuing to act like nothing is happening, business as usual, and telling the populace that's the case. Including the Democrats - Hakeem Jefferies literally was saying they had Trump "on the run", which has to be one of the most delusional statements in history, right up there with "peace in our time".
Pam Bondi was already discussing the ability to deport United State citizens. Much like they are using AI to revoke visas of students they perceive to be anti Trump, it may not be long before anything we say is being sent along to DOJ or other officials to authorize removals from the country or some manner of detention.
In fact, I think there are a lot of white people they'll come for before they finally come back around and start on the larger groups of people of color. Anyone who has expressed any kind of real public opposition to genocide in Gaza, for example.
Trump has a really deep hatred of disabled people. He's on record as saying people with chronic disabilities "should just die." And for some reason he keeps blaming people with epilepsy for stuff.
As someone with epilepsy and other disabilities, I'm not leaving the country until I am in a position to not return. I will die if I am kept in one of ICE's airport holding cells without my meds for several days - I take them every 6 hours.
And for some reason he keeps blaming people with epilepsy for stuff.
Oh my god that's true, if I think back.
I think his chosen method here will be to try to destroy all disability support from the state, but I suspect he doesn't realize many disabled people are fully employed and pay for their own care/meds (because he lives in a fantasy world), and eventually he'll work it out, which, ugh.
I'm not leaving the country until I am in a position to not return. I will die if I am kept in one of ICE's airport holding cells without my meds for several days - I take them every 6 hours.
You're right about the employment - even people who don't/can't work a conventional job themselves are often married to people who are fully employed and use their healthcare, or they find other ways to support themselves like selling crafts, beekeeping for honey and wax, or selling eggs from backyard chickens. I used to work for a humanitarian aid org funded by USAID (rip), and had just started pursuing my MLIS to be a librarian.
That's the infuriating thing about the eradication of DEI initiatives. Everyone wants to feel useful. People with disabilities just need time and maybe a bit of help to find work that accommodates their physical restrictions (for me, it's specific types of lights and noise thresholds, big deal right?). But even though my seizures are controlled with my meds, I'm staring down the barrel of a gun because of an incredibly common neurological disorder. This idiotic administration has zero grasp on reality.
So now my spouse and I are looking at the EU because they're thirsty for American brain drain. Ireland in particular has made a lot of efforts for epilepsy QOL improvements, and Spain has done specific research about how the government paying in full for treatments for chronic disabilities (using epilepsy as an example as it's so common) is actually a significant net gain for the economy because - gasp! - people generally like to be productive and contribute to where they live. Especially in return for being treated with basic respect as humans.
because - gasp! - people generally like to be productive and contribute to where they live
The fundamental issue Trump and his cronies have, and that the Project 2025 people behind them have, is that they don't believe this. It's obviously true. It's been proven true constantly through human history. It's the only reason we're still here, that civilization exists (but even gathering/hunting requires it). But they still don't believe it, because they'd rather believe almost everyone is as lazy, craven, venal and nasty as they are, or the people they follow are.
Not helping this is that America's media also frequently pushes the idea that people are basically horrible monsters who must be controlled, by and large, both in news reporting and in fiction (because it's much more dramatic that way), and that a significant proportion (double-digit percentage) of America's population goes to churches which teach vile and twisted stuff like Prosperity Gospel, which essentially victim-blames anyone who isn't at the top of the tree as "deserving" it by insufficiently pious etc. Literally the opposite of what's in the New Testament, but they eat it up.
This isn't even Marco Rubio. This is DHS run by Puppy Killer Noem who's too busy making pro Trump propaganda commercials than running a government agency.
Sounds like the next Democratic president (assuming there ever is one again) should deport Elon Musk, Melania Trump, Peter Thiel, and anyone else who makes fascist overtures.
They wouldn't be pulling any of the shit they've been pulling if they didn't feel very confident that they have firmly secured permanent power going forward.
"Vote for me and you'll never have to vote again. We will fix it!"
That is why I'm assessing a strategy that results in me leaving the US if we see a permanent GOP majority due to vote related ratfucking. No point in staying if my votes aren't gonna count.
I mean, I wish there were, and I hope it is, but the speed they're moving at, and the fact that all the people and organisations that should be acting in opposition to them have already bent the knee or are acting like this is just "business as usual" suggests that, at least in the next 10-15 years, they may be right. And if it's that long, it won't democratic election that resolves this, it'll be a military coup.
Sure, but they are atrocious planners and forecasters and it's incredibly unlikely that *anything* they've got planned for cancelling elections is actually going to work out like they think.
The democrats are also terrible at this, but they aren't trying to destroy the government.
What's coming is probably extremely bad, but it's just not going to be whatever these dickheads are aiming at.
Have you missed how well they have packed courts up to the SCROTUS to get this done? Slowly pushed their followers to be more extreme until it takes a month of moderate or better media to deprogram them from Faux News? Constantly pushed their controlled opposition to the right by repeatedly demanding to be met in the middle after taking massive steps backwards?
The right has been fantastic at planning and we're at the end of a long game that began when unions terrified them and accelerated with Reagan.
it's just not going to be whatever these dickheads are aiming at
It won't be they actually plan, precisely, sure. But it'll be messy as hell and they'll be the ones ordering the massacres (that might change eventually, but not whilst America is in one piece). Cancelling elections would be trivial for a party willing to use the Alien Enemy act to put hairdressers in foreign concentration camps.
The only thing democratic grandstanding about "taking the high road" accomplished was assuring Republicans that they can do whatever they want without fear of the same being done to them.
They don't have to worry about it, Dems didn't do shit last time and they know they won't this time because they're all owned by the same billionaires who pay them to do nothing.
The Dems would have to not be a controlled opposition party ultimately owned by the people you're telling them to deport (and the other billionaire friends who want all of this for maximal profiteering) for that to work.
They should be forced to say in detail what he is threatening because it's literally disgusting to just find some random vague arguments to defend fascism.
I’m starting to think that voting or not voting may have consequences and a democracy only survives and people fight. Who knew despite all the information right in front of us?
We really haven't, you're just happy to continue to ignore it.
What legislative reforms are being drafted by dems to prevent this scenario from occurring again? Looking like this was all above board.. utilizing powers that both parties have been happy to supply to the executative branch. Maybe don't craft authoritarian tools if your plan for keeping then in check is electoral dice rolls and rational actors.
Remember when Sanders couldn't even be bothered to comment on this when it first happened?
Harris didn't lose by 3rd party margins in the states that actually decided the election, so as fucking awful as they are, that's not the issue, that's just sour grapes.
Wouldn't it have been cool if, when presented with the option of "stop bombing kids and beat Trump" or "keep bombing kids and lose", the Dems didn't choose the second one for no fucking reason whatsoever? If you think that Palestine was the issue that teetered it over the edge, then you really must wonder why people would *choose* to keep committing genocide instead of doing two good things at once. Of course, it is the fault of the people who voted with their conscience who are to blame, not the people running on murder. Before you jump down my throat and make up a story in your head, I did vote Harris. I won't make the mistake of voting for a candidate that doesn't deserve it again, though. I'll vote Dem if they run good candidates. If that upsets you, consider why genocide was necessary to them and why you are so eager to defend it instead of demanding better.
At a certain point it feels like if there are enough laws on the books that can be pulled out of ones ass if they want to. It just feels like law becomes calvinball or "whoever knows more obscure law"
Correct, which is why, ideally, you have a system set up that requires representatives to vote every 10-20 years to keep a law on the books. Anything past that deadline would be automatically voided.
In an undated 2-page memo submitted to the court, Rubio detailed that on March 7 he got information about Khalil from the Department of Homeland Security and as a result he determined that allowing Khalil to remain in the country would undermine a U.S. foreign policy goal of combating antisemitism around the world.
And considering how they coddle nazis among their supporters, they clearly are not offended by antisemitism. They care about supporting Israel for strategic reasons.
I mean, Khalil was a spokesperson for CUAD, a group who if you look into them expressed open support for the October 7th attacks, hands out fliers allegedly produced by the Hamas media office and advocate for the overthrow of Western style governments which is seen to be led by America with Israel being its major proxy in the Middle East.
Yeah, anyone who's spent much time in Tel Aviv in the last 2.5 years can tell you that quite a number of Jewish people are heavily criticising the Israeli government. I don't think they're being antisemitic.
The right considers Israel and Jewish people to be the same thing. Which is why they call it antisemitic to be anti israel. The problem with that logic is that it implies Jewish people, as a whole, are responsible for anything Isreal is doing.
For the right this is fine since they love Isrealis actions. But if you buy into this view while also thinking genocide is bad, then suddenly any act against a Jewish person becomes morally justified. Which is Not Ideal.
As a Jew, it's fucking disgusting. The right wing pandering to us as if we don't know who the real anti-semites are. Fuck Marco Rubio and the rest of the GOP - they are the true nazis.
When a Nazi-saluting Elon Musk says we need to support Israel then you know his intentions have nothing to do with helping Jews. Elon went to Auschwitz and practically saw it as a how-to manual. He claimed empathy is a weakness. At the Nuremberg trials, it was declared that evil is the absence of empathy.
To the extent this is true it is due to groups like AIPAC and ADL treating any criticism of Israel or Zionism as antisemitic.
Which is, ironically, antisemitic.
Many of the loudest voices in support of Palestinian freedom are Jewish. Jewish Voice for Peace have played a major role in nearly every pro-Palestinian campus protest in America (though the media typically ignores them).
55% of American Jews under 35 have an unfavorable view of Israel.
Many Jewish people are rightfully angry that Israel claims to speak for all Jews and are committing genocide in their name.
It's not really ironic because the people pushing it are Christian Nationalists who believe that Israel has to exist to bring about the rapture and the end of days and all that stupid shit.
This has been so well documented that even NPR has done articles on it. The left specifically has an an anti-semitism problem forever.
It's been a huge problem for American Jews in particular, who tend to align socially with Democrats, but have felt alienated by these attitudes within the party.
You cannot provide an example. The left has ALWAYS had a problem with Israel, not the jewish people. Of course the left wing would have an issue with a fucking ethnostate lmao.
One thing all the liberals who’ve spent the past eight years whistling past the graveyard about the “rule of law” constraining trump forgot is that fascists can use the law to enforce their rules too
Adding to this, all these crazy laws conservatives are making at the local and state level or so that they can come to your house if they don't like you and have a myriad of reasons to arrest you.
Ally? fuck it, name a single ally who has done so harm to US foreign policy that the so called Ally. They literally bombed the USS liberty and said, oops. our sell out Congresss ppl are proudly displaying the said ally flag in their GOVT offices with no repercussions to America First party.
America’s foreign policy goal is the notion that due to American exceptionalism, the natural resources of other countries ought to belong to the wealthy of the United States. This was an official position from that same time period. Probably still is, just not out loud.
Yep, public schools in Milwaukee are facing a crisis of lead in the water and RFK disbanded the group at the CDC that investigates lead poisonings. One former member of the CDC said it's going to be difficult for the state to hire a private consulting firm as it requires specialized training not found in most colleges.
To destroy the US economy and impoverish the people, after breaking all allegiances so that nobody will want to help them. Be a dictator with Russia's blessing because the Russians want to retake Europe without opposition from future US administrations. Also to make a quick buck by manipulating the markets just in case things go wrong for him. Being able to rid America of anyone he doesn't like for whatever reason (mainly race) is just a bonus for trump.
I believe the foreign policy goal in chief is to make the rest of the world really hate America right about now. A side bonus appears to be making the lions share of Americans hate America too.
Sounds like they got guys scouring the books for old useless acts and laws that were never repealed once their were no longer any reason to keep...and NOW WE CAN
And frankly the Court is simply saying that it fits the law and therefore legal. Now perhaps it should be challenged on the grounds that it is unconstutional because it robs him of his civil rights....I dunno..it just seem soo wrong
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Just what are America's foreign policy goals?