Imagine going to work, paying your taxes, and just living your life when one day you get taken by people you don't know and shuffled around to different countries and prisons for literally no fucking reason over the span of just a few months. Can't talk to your family and probably don't even know where you are half the time. This can happen to any of us and you'll never know it's coming until you are already being detained. It's so disgusting, inhumane, and horrifying.

Sounds like that jail needs about 20,000 people protesting, clogging the hallways, and not fucking allowing it. So far, ICE has been easy to intimidate and unwilling to open fire.

Tennessee is an open carry state. Do with that info what you will.

"He's a flight risk because WE want to put him on a flight outta here!" - Prosecutor

What is this timeline...

If justice ever does make a return, this government is provoking the world's record of wrongful imprisonment lawsuit payouts. He deserves at least some of Leon's billions in reimbursement for this bullshit.

"you're honor, we can't let him go because he's a flight risk!"

"Your honor, first..... I just have to say, it's 'your', not 'you're'... okay with that out of the way, Mr Abrego wants to stay in this country. He's not a flight risk. He's fighting to stay. The government is just making shit up."

"You'RE honor, he's a flight risk because if you let him out, we'll deport him!"

fucking hell.

"I can tell you," my colleague went on, "of a man in Leipzig, a judge. He was not a Nazi, except nominally, but he certainly wasn’t an anti-Nazi. He was just—a judge. In ’42 or ’43, early ’43, I think it was, a Jew was tried before him in a case involving, but only incidentally, relations with an ‘Aryan’ woman. This was ‘race injury,’ something the Party was especially anxious to punish. In the case at bar, however, the judge had the power to convict the man of a ‘nonracial’ offense and send him to an ordinary prison for a very long term, thus saving him from Party ‘processing’ which would have meant concentration camp or, more probably, deportation and death. But the man was innocent of the ‘nonracial’ charge, in the judge’s opinion, and so, as an honorable judge, he acquitted him. Of course, the Party seized the Jew as soon as he left the courtroom."

"And the judge?"

"Yes, the judge. He could not get the case off his conscience—a case, mind you, in which he had acquitted an innocent man. He thought that he should have convicted him and saved him from the Party, but how could he have convicted an innocent man? The thing preyed on him more and more, and he had to talk about it, first to his family, then to his friends, and then to acquaintances. (That’s how I heard about it.) After the ’44 Putsch they arrested him. After that, I don’t know."

-from They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer.

I guess that I have been waiting for a parallel to this story since Trump's first election.

And here we are.

Meanwhile Trump was allowed to be free and run for President after leading an insurrection against the United States government