Top Trump administration officials—including the president, vice president, attorney general, and secretary of state—openly celebrated the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants over the weekend in defiance of a federal judge's order to halt the removals, which were carried out under a 1798 law that plainly states it is only operative in the context of a declared war.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance wrote late Sunday that "there were violent criminals and rapists in our country" and "President [Donald] Trump deported them." There was no due process for the more than 200 Venezuelans whom the Trump administration claims are gang members.
Vance's social media post, which came in response to reporting about the White House's acknowledgment that it ignored the court order blocking the deportations, was met with disgust and alarm.
"You are beyond vile," political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote. "You have no idea if the ones that were picked up and sent illegally to an El Salvador prison are all violent criminals. You abused the plain language of the law, gave them no due process, and defied a legitimate court order. This is American Gestapo."
It's a bummer no one thought these things to be a dealbreaker when Bush, Obama, Trump I, and Biden were doing them. These are not new things: ~~Torture~~ Enhanced Interrogation, ~~State Kidnapping~~ Extraordinary Rendition, Kids in Cages, ~~Air Strikes~~ Drone Bombings, Genocide, Black Sites, Foreign Prisons, etc. etc. etc.
Hell, Obama even literally assassinated a US citizen via drone.
It's all been done before, and even better, Bush, Obama, and now Trump got re-elected despite their support of it.
Exaclty. The seeds of this authoritarian takeover were planted after 9/11. There was never an attempt to roll back the surveillance state or limit executive overreach by subsequent Presidents or Congress.
Get ready for the libs to get screeching mad at you. I kept saying, as soon as Trump gets inaugurated they'll start talking about the kids in cages again and not a single dem will ask "okay we had 4 years to bring them out of the cages, why the fuck are there more now?"
It's okay.
It's not like any of us here in this discussion can actually change it now, but they do need to be reminded that they voted for this time and again.
Don’t forget Obama’s ~~star chamber~~ Disposition Matrix
where are you getting info from fox news?
Very embarrassing. Did you sleep through the twenty year War On Terror?
No.
Sounds like it
Perhaps read the entire post.