With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold. Inspiring terror, as a tactic, is openly acknowledged.
The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken time and again in front of a judge in Washington.
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
The high court has dealt a savage blow to due process and has rewarded the administration for defying court orders.
Farmworkers’ Unions Win a Big One (1975), The Nixon Gang Gets Down to Business (1970), A Deportation that Backfired (1950), Popular Justice Is No Crime (2020), Whitewashing the CIA Isn’t Easy (1975)
A future with (an even more) controlled press
If due process is of no moment, then the government could snatch any American citizen off the street, falsely accuse them of being a “criminal alien,” ship them to an overseas prison, then disavow any responsibility to bring them back
That was the week that was
Radical labor leader Harry Bridges successfully fought the government's attempt to deport him. In the Bridges case, the Supreme Court held that noncitizens enjoyed the same First Amendments rights as everyone else.
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