Trump Administration Imprisons and Tortures US Residents without Trial or Charges

On a day in late October, suddenly striking in every city and village and back-hill hide-out, the Corpos ended all crime in America forever, so titanic a feat that it was mentioned in the London Times. Seventy thousand selected Minute Men, working in combination with town and state police officers, all under the chiefs of the government secret service, arrested every known or faintly suspected criminal in the country. They were tried under court-martial procedure; one in ten was shot immediately, four in ten were given prison sentences, three in ten released as innocent. . .and two in ten taken in the M.M.’s as inspectors.

Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics) (p. 206). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. 

The fifth amendment of the US constitution states in plain language "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

The Trump administration is flagrantly flouting the constitution, imprisoning and torturing US residents without a fair trial, due process, or formally accusing them of a crime. On March 15, 2025, the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act and summarily deported appromixately 300 people to El Salvador, where they will be imprisoned in the Cente for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT). According to Human Rights Watch, treatment of prisoners in CECOT in El Salvador likely means "torture, ill-treatment, incommunicado detention, severe violations of due process and inhumane conditions, such as lack of access to adequate healthcare and food," and yet the US government deported them anyway, even though in doing so they broke our own laws.

Even undocumented migrants have a right to due process under the Fifth Amendment. The people who the administration has imprisoned should have been presumed innocent until proven guilty. Instead, some were presumed guilty due to their tattoos. When a Judge issued a court order restraining the government from deporting these people without due process, the Trump administration ignored the order and deported them anyway. 

Indeed, it looks an awful lot like the government planned on deporting them so fast that the detainees wouldn't have a chance to get a lawyer to file a lawsuit. The transcript of the hearing on March 21, 2025 is wild. The judge notes that "this proclamation essentially signed in the dark on ... early Saturday morning, and then these people rushed onto planes ... it seems to me the only reason to do that is if you know it's a problem and you want to get them out of the country before suit is filed.... it's certainly true that ICE had advanced notice of this proclamation because it's impossible that this could have happened within two hours." 

We are descending into the nightmarish dystopia which the founders of the United States of America always feared and Trump's supporters are ecstatic. Why aren't they terrified? Don't they realize that if this can happen to people because of their tattoos, it can happen to anyone for any reason?