Trump is halfway to making America a police state | The president’s refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point
Trump is halfway to making America a police state | The president’s refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point
The president’s refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point
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Halfway?
Yes, because so far it's limited in scale and targeted at non-citizens. Republicans are aiming to change that, but have not yet
Unwanted resisting individuals have already received threatening mail to leave the US even as natural citizens. They have changed it already. It is happening right now.
Have you read any black authors writing about their expience of being targeted and brutalized at the hands of police?
We've used the police to target brown people, including citizens, for hundreds of years..
They're not being shipped to El Salvador with no recourse to the US courts though, which is what's starting to happen.
US policing is already brutal, but is in theory somewhat constrained by the legal system. What's going on is tossing out those few, imperfect constraints