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Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores

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235 points nickcotter | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 08:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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RajT88 ◴[29 Mar 25 12:02 UTC] No.43514829[source]▶
If they are doing this to non-citizens, it is a matter of time until they start doing it to citizens as well. Soon it will be stripping naturalized citizenship (which they have floated already). After that, they will just lock up native born citizens for frivolous reasons.
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matwood ◴[29 Mar 25 12:10 UTC] No.43514879[source]▶
Exactly. Once due process is removed from non-citizens, they can arrest whoever they want, claim they are non-citizens, then prevent them the due process to prove otherwise.
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RajT88 ◴[29 Mar 25 14:40 UTC] No.43515944[source]▶
Or really, there is very little difference between trampling the constitutional rights of naturalized citizens vs. natural born citizens.

If the judicial branch chooses not to check that power for partisan reasons, they will continue not to check that power as they exercise it more.

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1. matwood ◴[01 Apr 25 12:15 UTC] No.43545838[source]▶
Sounds like they are testing an argument about jurisdiction now. US citizens are likely next.

The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-admi...