so as a non-american observing the situation from the outside, what is happening in the U.S. is very scary

it really appears like the U.S. is very quickly falling under the domination of a fashist state. the president acts like he is above the law, people are being kidnapped and incarcerated without due process, a militia has been created that answers only to the president and is carrying out these kidnapping without showing faces or I.D., president trying to make people believe that the level of civil unrest is so bad that it warrants using emergency insurection act with a spoksperson for the president actually stating the the president under this act had absolute power . now troops were sent from Texas to Illinois with the maire of chicago and the governor saying they must organise to protect themselves and their citizens from an illegal move from the president. sounds like civil war and a fashist take over is happening as we speak. what the hell ?

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@justbob Your ignorance is alarming. There is no "rioting" in Portland or Chicago or LA or NYC; just protesters exercising their right to assembly and their right of free speech.

Regarding non-citizens residing in the US, tRump revoked refugee status and temporary protected status on hundreds of thousands of people. Those refugees and TPS people entered the US legally under the 8 U.S.C. § 1158 Asylum laws. They did NOT commit the crime of illegal entry.

Repeat: those people did NOT commit the crime of illegal entry. They entered LEGALLY under our asylum laws. Personally, I think our asylum laws need to be rewritten, but that's neither here nor there.

And then tRump's government declared them illegal. And his brownshirts started grabbing them off the street; no Miranda rights, no phone call; just shipping them across state borders too fast for due process to keep up. And some are moved across national borders to concentration camps in other countries. Don't try and soft-pedal those places, they are modern concentration camps.

One example:

Despite being American citizens, three children — a 4-year-old boy with Stage 4 kidney cancer, his 7-year-old sister and a 2-year-old girl — were swept up along with their families by immigration authorities in Louisiana and quickly sent to Honduras, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of the families.

The suit alleges that despite the government’s own directives, the parents “were never given a choice as to whether their children should be deported with them and were prohibited from contacting their counsel or having meaningful contact with their families to arrange for the care of their children.” The mothers, named in the suit as Rosario and Julia, allege they wanted their children to remain in the U.S.