This is kidnapping and in another time, in USA, the perpetrators would be jailed not the person being abducted.  

 

Immigration and VISA violations are civil, not criminal matters. ICE detention, according to their own guidelines, should be "non-punitive" (not intended as a punishment).

But on tv we saw the image of a woman, here as a student studying for her PHD at Tufts University on a VISA, abducted without warning or identification by 6 masked ICE agents. She was denied the most basic human rights afforded to in a country that identifies itself as a democracy. Many European countries and Canada now have issued travel warnings for tourists in direct response to Presidents Trump's policies. These types of incidents are happening too frequently, under the guise of cracking down on protesters who voice their concerns about war crimes and genesis. And this week Trump suggested he is opened to deporting U.S. citizens to Salvadoran gulags. Who will he target next? Yet is was ok on January 6th, 2020, that our Capital was breached by violent protesters who later, by Trump, were called patriots and exonerated for their actions.

When we protect the rights of the least among us, we are protecting ourselves from what might very well be the same outcome one day. I am sure the people in Germany in 1935 did not realize how far reaching the power of a dictator was going to eventually effect them and their individual freedoms.

If we do not learn from history we are doomed to repeat it.

                                                                                        Katie Forsythe