Trump has never had a "deportation" agenda.

What he's had, from the start, is a "send anyone who opposes me to a concentration camp" agenda.

The "deportation" of immigrants was just a cenvenient base from which to start establishing precedents.

ETHNIC CLEANSING

"[The administration] can’t, on their own, denaturalize people, they still have to go to a federal district court,” said Chisthi. “Denaturalization finally does belong to federal district courts – but they are obviously keen on finding every way they can to denaturalize people they think did not deserve to be naturalized.”

But what the administration can do is drag anyone and everyone they want into the courts, where they'll either have to pay for their own attorney or go it alone, jump through hoops, miss work, incur travel expenses, and of course all the fucking stress that goes along with "this is the beginning of my being disappeared to a foreign gulag."

They don't care whether any specific individual is denaturalized. Some percentage will be, for good or bad "reasons." Some will just give up and leave the country. Some will go on the run. Many will succeed in court, retaining their citizenship, as well as a whole lot of paranoia for the rest of their lives.

All of them will suffer from the process. The suffering is the point.

If there’s anything that Trump especially excels at, one talent, one skill, he is the absolute master of, it is his fucking hypocrisy. Like any bully, like any fascist, they will use your own rules to beat you down as they, by definition, are in violation of them. When they violate the rules, they are “strong“. When you violate the rules you are “weak“.

The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

It works because they have no shame. And they have no shame because they are psychopaths.

How fascism is specifically designed to break democracy using its own rules: The Alt-Right Playbook: You Go High, We Go Low

If moral character was a real issue, Trump would have lost his citizenship long ago. Together with most politicians in Washington DC.

“[The administration] can’t, on their own, denaturalize people, they still have to go to a federal district court,” said Chisthi.“

Because they give a shit about federal courts

Social credit system in China sure pissed off a lot of Americans.

But watch us get it under a different name.

"Immigration matters are civil matters, meaning that immigrants – whether they are naturalized citizens or not – do not have the right to an attorney in such cases."

How can immigrantion matters be considered a civil matter if you criminalized someone's immigration status?

Example in Tennessee: "The legislation, criminalizing the act of being in Tennessee without legal immigration status, would come with both jail time and an eviction notice from the state. Judges would be required to issue 72-hour warnings to leave Tennessee to anyone charged or convicted of the crime.

The first offense would be a misdemeanor, but would rise to a felony if someone is charged a second or subsequent time."

That means Tennessees courts should immediately shoot that down as unconstitutional because it is a civil matter according to the federal government.

The thrice divorced, adulterous, non-bill-paying would surely fall into this category.

That's a grossly overbroad and self-serving reading. This Supreme Court will be completely fine with it.

Can we revoke trumps citizenship and deporting him? Is that an option? Would be peak irony.

Who has less moral character than Trump?

Bout the most cringe worthy thing i have ever heard..

A bunch of card carrying Nazis claiming " Morale suparity "

Department of Justification.

Not a loophole. Ambiguous and subjective criteria are designed to give decision makers cover to ultimately do whatever they want, unbound by the rules. When the system permits, the system is flawed.

who would have thought that citizenship would be subject to fascist Calvinball in the colonies that cage 5 million people

If only we had the standards for the presidency that we have for newly naturalized citizens.

I've always felt america had a distinct lack of a morality police /s