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I have friends who were asked about their social media accounts at the US border. I.e. like you have in Russia, where they can check your Telegram for the subscription to opposition channels. It's not surprising that people are reluctant to travel to the US now.
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> Are you suggesting everybody gets a trial before they are deported? Well, yes, because that's precisely what due process is? If "everybody" doesn't get a trial before a judge, if _you_ happened to be taken by ICE[1], how would you manage not being deported? By proving you're a legal citizen? But how do you do so if there's no due process? [1] (for whatever reason; today it's on the suspicion to be an "illegal", bas…
Getting a trial for a visa violation is not what happens outside the US either.
However, if arrested within the borders, yes, it becomes a different matter where you _are_ going through a judicial process, to assess whatever should happen, and why exactly (and to document the process).
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>I think the news feeds within the US may be approximately equal in their delivery of "this is good change" versus "this is catastrophic change", whilst internationally it's almost entirely "this is catastrophic change" with minor pockets of intolerance apologia. Exactly. Americans generally don't understand the degree to which the rest of the world gets the CNN 5min recap of what's going on in the US, and it's very…
Then maybe Europeans should consume more alternative media instead of just state propaganda.
As opposed to... a news organisation/channel?