General Discussion

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JUST AS AMERICANS HAVE DISCOVERED that they’re not big fans of pointless trade wars, they’re also realizing what the “largest deportation operation in American history” looks like in the real world. Masked agents are throwing people—including American citizens—in unmarked cars and taking them to undisclosed locations. The Trump administration assures Americans it is targeting the “worst of the worst” for deportation, but the majority of immigrants that have been arrested in recent crackdowns in cities like L.A. and Washington, D.C. have no criminal background. The administration has sent people to a Salvadoran torture prison in contravention of specific judicial orders against doing so.

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the proportion of Americans who say immigration is a good thing for the country has surged to a record high of 79 percent.