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"...what can go wrong when the executive branch is allowed to subvert the basic principle of due process of law, to deem anyone it likes a “terrorist” and thereby exempt them from the basic human rights protections afforded to others."
Trust Me, You Want Due Process
A quick refresher on a principle that everyone should fight to protect.
www.currentaffairs.org
April 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"...what can go wrong when the executive branch is allowed to subvert the basic principle of due process of law, to deem anyone it likes a “terrorist” and thereby exempt them from the basic human rights protections afforded to others."
"Trump’s territorial ambitions are often described as imperialist, and they are. But they’re also just the landlord mentality at work. On a fundamental level, he’s thinking about the world the way he used to think about New York City.”
Trump is What Happens When You Give a Landlord Power
He wants to “own” Gaza and Greenland, and he treats immigrants like tenants he can evict at will. The rent-seeking class created Trump, and now he’s governing as America's landlord in chief.
www.currentaffairs.org
April 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"Trump’s territorial ambitions are often described as imperialist, and they are. But they’re also just the landlord mentality at work. On a fundamental level, he’s thinking about the world the way he used to think about New York City.”
"When his son was on his way back, just steps from his home, ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”
We are sending people to the Salvadoran gulag for nothing at all.
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ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Home. Now His Son Is In Bukele's Mega-prison In El Salvador
Merwil Gutiérrez had no criminal record when ICE agents detained the 19-year-old outside his home. Now his father, Wilmer, is still searching for answers.
documentedny.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"When his son was on his way back, just steps from his home, ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”