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   Sean Casten (seancasten@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:39:30 JST Sean Casten

   To understand why this is straight up fascism, just ask yourself what protection you would have - as a law-abiding American citizen - if the President alleged that you were a criminal and an illegal immigrant and deported you to a prison in El Salvador. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/politics/trump-undocumented-immigrants-trials-deportation.html

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     Sean Casten (seancasten@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:39:28 JST Sean Casten

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     Trump knows this as well as anyone. He is a 34-time convicted felon but he's been accused of a lot more crimes than that. He walks free among us today because he had access to due process in the trial and sentencing phase.

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     Sean Casten (seancasten@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:39:28 JST Sean Casten

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     He is asserting that he alone has the right to allege that someone "illegal" and a criminal, serve as their judge and sentence them with no checks. That is fundamentally fascist. It is also a plain violation of the 5th, 8th and 14th amendments.

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     Sean Casten (seancasten@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:39:29 JST Sean Casten

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     If answer is that couldn't happen to you because you're a law-abiding citizen, then clarify where you would have the opportunity to make that case in the absence of due process?

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     Sean Casten (seancasten@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:39:29 JST Sean Casten

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     And that of course applies equally to immigrants who are here as DREAMers or asylum seekers under Temporary Protected Status. Both are technically "illegal" but are here with the understanding that if they go through a legal process and commit no crimes they can secure legal status.

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     Sean Casten (seancasten@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:39:29 JST Sean Casten

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     The truth is, it doesn't take a particularly sophisticated knowledge of the law to understand why a country based on rule of law must afford equal protection under that law to everyone inside our borders, regardless of their immigration status.

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     Sean Casten (seancasten@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 00:39:29 JST Sean Casten

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     Because you cannot assert that someone is doing something "illegally" in such a country unless that person has the right to present evidence, have access to counsel and defend themselves in court BEFORE such assertion carries with it the full force of law.