Here’s a sketch of what’s coming next from US historical context During World War I the US interned thousands of Germans. Passengers on a steamer in NY Harbor when the US declared war were stuck here for years. US Gov also took their property
The pretext was fear of continued sabotage of US industry by German agents - munitions plant in NJ was bombed in 1916
Similar fears of Japanese populations during WWII, combined with deeper racial animus and othering, led to mass internment of citizens and aliens alike.
So right now, internment is part of policing the border - a brutal tactic of deterrence. But during WWI and II preserving security spilled over quickly to mass surveillance and incarceration of native-born populations by overlapping federal-state-local police power
At some point, I’d expect the convo inside the Trump WH to move to mass detainment of anyone -citizens, too - suspected of being here illegally until status is “sorted out” or “criminality” disproven. Starting to see this already w CBP behavior.
The piece people might miss in the historical parallel is Japanese internment was acceptable to public because of decades of anti-Japanese agitation. Imm of brides of arranged marriages curtailed; Western states tried to outlaw Japanese land ownership; Klan growth in Ore
Similar attacks on Latino community have gone on for decades by part of GOP and those farther to right who are now in coalition - birthright citizenship critics, etc.
Where it gets really dangerous is when state pretext to preserve “public safety” or “national sovereignty” overlap with racial preference. Miller, etc want millions of Latinos gone. Trump constantly invoking MS-13 is the pretext. Conditions there for something much bigger
So the time to make that connection to the fate of the many is now because the wheels are in motion. It can happen here because it did - and under the “rule of law” every time
