It’s time to take the threat from the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 literally and seriously.
America has left a loaded anti immigrant gun lying around. A future administration could pick it up and use it against millions of people.Listen on your computer:Episode Notes
It’s easy to dismiss nativist rhetoric as mere Trumpy “locker room talk.” But when it comes to immigration, deportation and even detention, rhetoric about foreigners and violent invaders is actually a legal long game. Toward the end of the summer of 2023,counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, noticed that rightwing anti immigration groups and the Trump campaign had startedin order to do very chilling things to immigrants.
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