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Sherrilyn Ifill: Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Sherrilyn Ifill - Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
Sherrilyn Ifill
Apr 12, 2025
Over the past three weeks Trump’s monstrous reign has shaken this country to its core. He has upended every fairy story Americans have ever told themselves, every myth we have indulged about who we are, about merit, the rule of law, about the unshakeable strength of our Constitution, and about American exceptionalism. He has smashed through every norm, every basis for deference and good faith, every presumption of good will, and every rational approach to policy. He has identified and taken advantage of our every weakness. And in so doing he has revealed America to itself.
Brutal as it has been, we are left now to see our strengths and to confront our weaknesses with clear eyes.
The coming weeks will challenge us like never before, as Trump prepares plans to move U.S. citizen prisoners to El Salvador. This plan will involve either engaging in the mass denaturalization of naturalized American prisoners, or the purchase property in El Salvador (I’m also hearing about other countries) with the intention of declaring that property U.S. territory with the consent of the government of those foreign nations. It is a brazen effort to turn U.S. prisoners into virtually stateless persons, to disappear them, and put them beyond the reach of our view.
Why? This is the ultimate intimidation move by Trump. As he prepares to have his Attorney General to investigate those who disagree with him and as Trump seeks ways to undermine the potential for mass protest, holding the threat of not only arrest and potential incarceration, but disappearance to a foreign gulag is a monstrous, yet effective means of stifling dissent.
According to reports this week, it may also be a scheme that allows military contractors like the notorious villain Erik Prince, to step up once again to feed at the public trough.
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Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
Sherrilyn Ifill
Apr 12, 2025
Over the past three weeks Trump’s monstrous reign has shaken this country to its core. He has upended every fairy story Americans have ever told themselves, every myth we have indulged about who we are, about merit, the rule of law, about the unshakeable strength of our Constitution, and about American exceptionalism. He has smashed through every norm, every basis for deference and good faith, every presumption of good will, and every rational approach to policy. He has identified and taken advantage of our every weakness. And in so doing he has revealed America to itself.
Brutal as it has been, we are left now to see our strengths and to confront our weaknesses with clear eyes.
The coming weeks will challenge us like never before, as Trump prepares plans to move U.S. citizen prisoners to El Salvador. This plan will involve either engaging in the mass denaturalization of naturalized American prisoners, or the purchase property in El Salvador (I’m also hearing about other countries) with the intention of declaring that property U.S. territory with the consent of the government of those foreign nations. It is a brazen effort to turn U.S. prisoners into virtually stateless persons, to disappear them, and put them beyond the reach of our view.
Why? This is the ultimate intimidation move by Trump. As he prepares to have his Attorney General to investigate those who disagree with him and as Trump seeks ways to undermine the potential for mass protest, holding the threat of not only arrest and potential incarceration, but disappearance to a foreign gulag is a monstrous, yet effective means of stifling dissent.
According to reports this week, it may also be a scheme that allows military contractors like the notorious villain Erik Prince, to step up once again to feed at the public trough.
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