If you still don’t believe we’ve somehow relocated into an alternate dystopian timeline where common sense is nowhere to be found and fascism is making a comeback despite centuries of history warning us against it, then just take this little nugget of American exceptionalism to brighten your Sunday: The U.S. government is trying to deport a 5-year-old, because, and I quote, there’s nothing wrong with “enforcing the nation’s immigration laws.”
While federal judges across the country have been swatting down Donald Trump’s attempt to maintain detention centers that would make even the Nazis blush, the conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals broke ranks this Friday by handing Trump officials sweeping authority to lock up immigrants indefinitely without bond hearings.
