A US citizen is being held for immigration purpose—without charge despite showing his birth certificate—in a local jail in Florida. A nightmare scenario sees the light of day.
Why would they? They're getting away with eliminating due process on immigrants, so why wouldn't they do the same to citizens if it suits their purposes?
It's time to wake up, folks. They system isn't broken and needs to be fixed--the system is fixed against us on purpose, and we need to break it open if we ever hope to build an actual democracy.
“Yet like so much of the past three months, just as sit down to write a more speculative piece about the dangers we face, I see that same speculation show up in my news feed as horrifying reality.” This resonates. The shelf life of horror is getting very short, with new ones restocking every hour.
Don't wait for citizens' rights to be abridged. EVERYBODY ALWAYS has a right to due process. Letting the Republican administration take away non-citizens' rights opens the door to your own undue incarceration/deportation.
The 14th Amendment extends constitutional protections to "all persons" within the jurisdiction of the US, not merely to all citizens.
Yes, they will try to deport US citizens, and will succeed in deporting a few whose parents weren't born here before they are stopped. But they will be stopped. This shit ain't gonna fly forever.
Gomez-Lopez was released earlier tonight. https://bsky.app/profile/llanosjackie.bsky.social/post/3ln2as4myj22e
Thank you! Thrilled to hear this.
"They are not drawing the line at US citizens."
Why would they? They're getting away with eliminating due process on immigrants, so why wouldn't they do the same to citizens if it suits their purposes?
It's time to wake up, folks. They system isn't broken and needs to be fixed--the system is fixed against us on purpose, and we need to break it open if we ever hope to build an actual democracy.
“Yet like so much of the past three months, just as sit down to write a more speculative piece about the dangers we face, I see that same speculation show up in my news feed as horrifying reality.” This resonates. The shelf life of horror is getting very short, with new ones restocking every hour.
Don't wait for citizens' rights to be abridged. EVERYBODY ALWAYS has a right to due process. Letting the Republican administration take away non-citizens' rights opens the door to your own undue incarceration/deportation.
The 14th Amendment extends constitutional protections to "all persons" within the jurisdiction of the US, not merely to all citizens.
Yes, they will try to deport US citizens, and will succeed in deporting a few whose parents weren't born here before they are stopped. But they will be stopped. This shit ain't gonna fly forever.