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[quote=Anonymous]I was a having an argument with someone about the planes to El Salvador. I remembered in high school learning about the hostility to the alien and sedition acts when they were passed originally. Anyway, I looked up the enemies act (the only one remaining). Backlash to these laws helped elect Jefferson. The Alien Enemies Act does refer to invasions and predatory incursions in the absence of declared war, but those words were understood to mean something (based on legal dictionary definitions of the time) other than how they are being used. They also refer to people being given the opportunity to arrange their affairs if they are forced to leave the country, and refer to " the dictates of humanity and national hospitality." They also refer to "conveyed before such court, judge, or justice; and after a full examination and hearing on such complaint, and sufficient cause appearing, to order such alien to be removed out of the territory of the United States, or to give sureties for his good behavior, or to be otherwise restrained, conformably to the proclamation or regulations established as aforesaid, and to imprison, or otherwise secure such alien, until the order which may be so made shall be performed."

If that's what the law says, then what is happening in terms of that particular EO is a clear travesty, even aside from how rarely the law has ever been invoked and the fact that it was always invoked in the past in connection with actual hostile nations. Yet if I point to the law I am told I am defending gang criminals.

My fear is that we are going into a slide into repression with the likelihood it will take years, even decades, before as a country this is acknowledged and rectified. Trump has been given so much cover by SCOTUS and his party and is underpinned by a very deliberate creation of institutions (Heritage Society, Federalist Society, etc) that it will not easily be undone, and as a country we will have lost whatever moral high ground--even if only in the form of stated ideals--I don't think we can ever go back and reclaim it. 
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