Summary

Immigration officials detained a US citizen for nearly 10 days in Arizona, according to court records and press reports.

On 8 April, a border patrol official found Hermosillo “without the proper immigration documents” and claimed that the young American had admitted entering the US illegally from Mexico.

On 17 April, a federal judge dismissed his case. “He did say he was a US citizen, but they didn’t believe him.”

“Under the Trump administration’s theory of the law, the government could have banished this U.S. citizen to a Salvadoran prison then refused to do anything to bring him back,” Mark Joseph Stern, a legal analyst for Slate, wrote on Bluesky. “This is why the Constitution guarantees due process to all. Could it be more obvious?”

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      Their sending legal inhabitants to death camps, where’s the distinction between ice and nazis?

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        Nazi noun Na·​zi ˈnät-sē ˈnat- 1 : a member of a German fascist party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler

        ICE abbreviation noun: ICE; singular proper noun: ICE 1. (in the US) Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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            It’s interesting you used this and everybody jumps to Nazis since The Office references the Bund.

            I’d think comparing ICE to the Bund or the OD would be more apt since those were at least American arms of the Nazi organization. Plus there’s the roundabout connection between what’s happening now and McCarthyism through what happened with the Bund and the Special Committee on Un-American Activities.