was just being "paranoid" and "taking things to the irrational extreme," I wasn't wrong.

Waiting for people to apologize to me and respecting how terrified I am for my wife now.

they are so emboldened that they don't even care if someone is a citizen or not. It looks like they will next be aiming to "declare" someone "a criminal" and will unilaterally "strip citizenship" in order to remove the person from the country.

Even if a person is not a citizen but they're married to a citizen -- that's good enough, right? The Executive Branch is so out of control that they are acting like executive, legislative, and judicial, all in one. It's pretty scary, and that's what they want. They want us all scared of what they might do to us. Scared people are much easier to rule.

Every one of those layoffs and offers of "buyouts" to federal employees, has violated multiple laws.

They don't care and they know the courts are slow to react. And when the courts DO react, they take advantage of no good enforcement mechanism, so they strategically either stonewall or will completely ignore any court orders.

could come along and sashay his way right through the middle of our safeguards. It's like most of the players are fighting in slow motion and the quarterback is racing right through their midst. It's so infuriating!

part of the problem is that judges, in general, are so used to the "theatrics" that can go on in the courtroom between the lawyers for the plaintiffs and the lawyers for the defendants, that they have literally numbed themselves to it, and consider much of it "hyperbole".

The problem is, you actually have people now who are carrying out criminal actions that are NOT "hyperbole" and are REAL. And they have infested the very enforcement mechanisms (DOJ) with more criminals that will act as a safety net to any actual adjudication.

So they end up proceeding in a more deliberative fashion, which obviously takes time, and doesn't recognize the emergency nature of what is going on - especially when you have an administration that is now openly and blatantly defying court orders.

realize how quickly and deeply this could go bad. I said people in vulnerable or at risk groups needed to contemplate escape plans because, as we have seen, just being right and having all of your paperwork right doesn't mean they won't target you, detain you and in some cases deport you anyway and then claim there's nothing they can do. The disruption, trauma,. PTSD etc. you could suffer might well have serious effects for you your entire life.

I know that I and many others were criticized as "alarmist" etc. and I remember specifically people criticizing me as advising people to "give up rather than fight". I really don't mind because I knew I was right. I don't mean that in a self-righteous sense but rather in the certainty of it being right to caution and for people to take action. I do feel badly for people in those groups I mentioned who are now justifiably struck with fear.

Two words: Elián. González.

Remember how the Reich-wingers and the Miami Cuban community lost their collective shit over returning 6-year old Elián back to Cuba and his father?

And today… (Sound of crickets…)

The silence from the Cubans now in the U.S. just screams.

but the headline makes it look like a one-year-old is married to a US citizen.

Within mere hours the Trump administration is doubling down on ‘deterrence through cruelty,’ drastically expanding its campaign of targeting people seeking asylum in ways that threaten the health, rights, and wellbeing of all people in the United States

Will this diabolically evil $HIT ever end?

[Can we survive until next year's midterm elections?]

Just turn their backs and cheer.