In mid-March, after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) shackled and herded 238 immigrants onto transport planes and flew them to a notoriously brutal Salvadoran prison. According to Trump, the men were members of Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gang, but the evidence was sketchy (often based... See more

american exceptionalism is difficult to embrace by the liberal when it is as openly crass as trump yelling make america great again ; this is a land obsessed with packaging and style after all. of keeping up appearances. it’s why so much of the democrats’ criticism of trumpism has to do with his delivery; they object to him ‘soiling’ the white... See more

Calling a person “an illegal,” and flattening their entire existence into a crime is dehumanizing. But it doesn’t stop at a social slight, language like that is propaganda that drives public opinion to the point where they think it’s justified for their neighbors to be disappeared off the street by ICE.