The Authoritarian Coup by Donald Trump Is Accelerating--Legal Status Be Damned

Visa holders, legal permanent residents, tourists with return tickets, asylum seekers, all are being arrested, detained, sometimes tortured, and deported.

I am adding this to my original piece, because it is part of the same story.

[03/17/2025] One week ago, I wrote the piece below the first divider, but the situation has become far grimmer since then. The Trump administration has chosen to drastically escalate the constitutional crisis we find ourselves in. Over the last seventy-two hours, Trump and his …