A representative for Customs and Border Protection told HuffPost, "Arriving aliens bear the burden of establishing admissibility to the United States."

Let me break this down:

Openly defying court orders multiple times= dictatorship Threatening to jail political opponents despite them being pardoned= dictatorship Deporting American citizens who have legal citizenship= dictatorship Can’t put it any simpler.

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    And if anyone doing these illegal deportations is tried, and even convicted, the president can just pardon them.

    Presidential pardons are dumb and were always waiting to be abused, change my mind.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Yes, it seems like for all the USA’s supposed opposition to kings, they just had to make the President the closest possible thing to an all-powerful king. Whereas countries with parliamentary systems and a Prime Minister don’t have this problem, even when they technically have an actual king.