Dozens of US citizens have allegedly been arrested and sent for deportation
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-denying-passports-to-americans-along-the-border-throwing-their-citizenship-into-question/2018/08/29/1d630e84-a0da-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html?utm_term=.a9bc8177d319
In some cases, passport applicants with official U.S. birth certificates are being jailed in immigration detention centers and entered into deportation proceedings. In others, they are stuck in Mexico, their passports suddenly revoked when they tried to reenter the United States. As the Trump administration attempts to reduce both legal and illegal immigration, the government’s treatment of passport applicants in South Texas shows how U.S. citizens are increasingly being swept up by immigration enforcement agencies.
In a case last August, a 35-year-old Texas man with a U.S. passport was interrogated while crossing back into Texas from Mexico with his son at the McAllen-Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge, connecting Reynosa, Mexico, to McAllen, Tex.
His passport was taken from him, and Customs and Border Protection agents told him to admit that he was born in Mexico, according to documents later filed in federal court. He refused and was sent to the Los Fresnos Detention Center and entered into deportation proceedings.
He was released three days later, but the government scheduled a deportation hearing for him in 2019. His passport, which had been issued in 2008, was revoked.
Attorneys say these cases, where the government’s doubts about an official birth certificate lead to immigration detention, are increasingly common. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center — U.S. citizens,” said Jaime Diez, an attorney in Brownsville.
Diez represents dozens of U.S. citizens who were denied their passports or had their passports suddenly revoked. Among them are soldiers and Border Patrol agents. In some cases, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrived at his clients’ homes without notice and taken passports away.
The denials are happening at a time when Trump has been lobbying for stricter federal voter identification rules, which would presumably affect the same people who are now being denied passports — almost all of them Hispanic, living in a heavily Democratic sliver of Texas.
“That’s where it gets scary,” Diez said.
Uh, jesus fucking christ
i fucking knew this could have happened but i didn't think it actually would
Attorneys say these cases, where the government’s doubts about an official birth certificate lead to immigration detention, are ncreasingly common.
Well that's just pure racism right there. "You're slightly brown! Whites can't tan! Y-you can't be an American! Deport him!"
What's scary is that this will be GOP policy from now on. People will get sick of Democrats after a few years, and this will all happen again under a smart, charismatic, fascist.
This is one of those times where I'm like "called it" but I really hate that I called it
Are we allowed to draw comparisons to Nazi Germany yet???
So are pre-war Germany comparisons appropriate now? 'Cause this is uhhhhh
Even McCarthy wasn't stripping citizenship from people and making them stateless deportees when he was on his tyranny against the red threat.
remember, it's just the illegals we have a problem with. what do you mean, that one's legal? look at him he's brown
This is surreal, they're locking people in detention because they're democrats.
I'm worried for my mother who immigrated here and is a Citizen, they can go after her since shes a registered democrat
Fucking disgusting. I have no words for this.
"It's just about immigration, it has nothing to do with race"
-_-
I would say "is this worth it" to the GOP establishment, but it definitely is. Trump's already got two SCOTUS picks, a record high number of federal court appointees, he probably can mold the State Department after
so many employees left under this admin, he got the US out of the Paris climate agreement, neutered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reverted Dodd-Frank partially.
Plus they can deport the nasty brown people and see brown kids die in detention centers.
I do.
Arrest this fascist mother fucker. Impeach him and his entire administration. Protest in the streets. Tell this cartoon-villain clan of wannabe-oligarchs that they will not get away with this shit on American soil. Fuck fascists, fuck oligarchs, fuck Trump and fuck everyone who still supports him.
This is the line right? This is where sane people stand up and say enough? Fuck me man, I knew shit was going bad but this is getting beyond the pale.
GOP politicians are now using their kids in political ads about them building walls and dressing them up in MAGA onesies.
Nixon doomed the US.
there isn't gonna be one, boiling frog etc etc
Wow who could have forseen a birther president would decide to make birtherism a policy to practice?
So what's this? The start of an ethnic cleansing?
continuation
and once again we are about to see what fruits the "it doesnt affect me so why do I care" mentality bears for this fucked up tree
My dad is being denied his passport because of this shit. No amount of documentation is satisfactory enough and they want tax documents dating back 50+ years which the IRS doesn't even have on record. It's amazing.
The party don't seem to be complaining, and the border officers seem to be right on board, blaming Trump alone is sweeping the main body of the issue under the rug imo.
I hate to bust your balls but I don't think anything is gonna happen
What is the theoretical punishment for willingly violating the 5th and 6th amendment in regards to actual US citizens? I feel like impeachment isn't enough, everyone involved in this charade should see jail time.
I bet there will still be sad losers who try to defend this.
In the article one of the guys is an army vet.
closed borders means literally nobody passes under the new party platform.
The question now is how long until they prevent us from leaving and close the borders internally?
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
You can rebrand it with socialist, democrat, muslim, brown, and black.
American fascism in the making.
Oh sorry what was that about 2nd amendment folks saying they would fight a tyrannical government?
Seems like they enable the tyranny instead
not a jab at the 2nd amendment, just at the reasons the supporters give
I agree with some points brought up by 2A enthusiasts but this one has always seemed the weakest. They seem to envision a perfect fantasy scenario that could never happen. They don't actually want to use their rights to defend their fellow countrymen, they want to be well-prepared for a borderline doomsday prepper fantasy.
