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    4 days ago

    White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this “if it’s legal.” […] Stephen Yale-Loehr, a retired immigration law professor at Cornell University, tells Rolling Stone he worries Trump could try to deport citizens anyway, court precedent be damned, given how the administration seems to be “attacking on all fronts and worrying later whether their actions are legal. So unfortunately, it would not surprise me if we saw at least one plane load of incarcerated U.S. citizens being shipped off to El Salvador.”

    Oh, at least one

    “It’s not like we would send everybody there — but depending on the case, it can be an option,” says one of the people familiar with the matter,

    Riiiiight. That’s what they said about the deportations, that it would only be the worst, most violent criminals taken into custody and returned home. Instead they’re snatching people off the streets and out of their homes, throwing them into vans, moving them around the country so their families, friends and lawyers can’t find them, and sending into a death camp that’s not under control of US law, without due process and no possibility of return.