Trump Official Declaring 'Anyone Who Preaches Hate for America' Will Be Deported Worries Users: 'They Just Skip the First Amendment'
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Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller's pledge to deport those who "preach hate for America" has sparked fears of free speech violations.

Top Trump official Stephen Miller’s recent declaration that anyone who “preaches hate for America” will face deportation has ignited alarm online, with critics warning the statement disregards First Amendment protections.

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Social media users and legal analysts raised immediate concerns, pointing out that expressing dissent or criticism of the government is protected under the First Amendment. Some worried the administration was veering into authoritarian territory.

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The backlash has reignited broader debates over the limits of free speech, especially as civil liberties fall under scrutiny. While immigration enforcement remains a core theme of President Donald Trump’s platform, critics are increasingly questioning whether rhetoric like Miller’s is a precursor to more aggressive suppression of dissent.

  • @[email protected]
    7•3 months ago

    The world would be a better place if Stephen Miller never said or wrote another word. He’s more hateful of the Constitution than anyone in the country. He’s a white supremacist bigot who is scared of his own shadow, and when cornered by his idiocy in an interview the only thing he knows how to do is fake outrage to dodge.

  • p3n
    26•3 months ago

    I can hardly believe that we have devolved so far, so quickly. We are literally one step away from becoming an authoritarian dictatorship. The plan is this:

    1. Deport (and by deport, they mean imprison for life) immigrants. These immigrants will mostly be legitimately illegal and gang associated criminals, but there will be a few individuals with legal standing and no criminal records. This could simply be the result of denying due process, or it could be an intentional test. The important factor is that 5th Amendment Due process rights are denied to all of them. The fact that these people (but be sure to de-humanize them as much as possible) are immigrants will be the distracting factor. <---- We are here

    2. Deport (and by deport, they mean imprison for life) criminals. These will be legitimate criminals with legitimately horrible records; that will be the distracting issue that will be made the focus of the argument: “They are serial killers, rapists, pedophiles, we don’t want them here, so we should get rid of them.” This has already been announced as the plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUfrwWz-m5I . That is not the point! The point is that they are still U.S. citizens, despite their crimes. The significance of this is that it will be the final barrier that needs to be broken, and the final protection that must be dismantled for the final solution to be enacted. If no one steps up and successfully defends the constitutional rights of these American citizens, then all the pieces will be in place for step 3.

    3. Deport (and by deport, they mean imprison for life) political dissidents, rivals, business opponents, and maybe just anyone the administration doesn’t like. If they are political dissidents they will claim that they have committed crimes like, “hate speech against America™”, if they are a minority, they will be “associated with gangs”, if they are business rivals it will have committed “economic terrorism”, or something like that. It doesn’t really matter because they eliminated due process in step 1 (remember that was the important factor, not the immigrant dis-tractor), and without due process they don’t have to prove any crimes. Our last defense would have been the simple fact that we are American Citizens, but we established that doesn’t matter in step 2 because they were “bad people”, but now the “bad people” are whoever the administration decides is bad.

    The context of the 5th amendment is important to understand its intent:

    Historically, the Fifth Amendment draws significant influence from English common law. The grand jury clause specifically dates back to the Magna Carta, and was designed to protect accused persons from prosecution by the English royalty. In keeping with that intention, the Constitution’s framers opted to adapt the grand jury to the Constitution, so as to protect citizens from prosecution by the federal government.
    Reagan Library

    Even in a Monarchy, which is not the form of government we are supposed to have, the Magna Carta offered protections against the King from prosecuting commoners, which is the origin of this amendment. We aren’t just devolving to pre-revolution America, which had enough disagreements with the rule of King George III that it sparked a war…no we are devolving to a pre-Magna Carta England type of Government. We are descending into middle-age feudalism with complete authoritarian rule… and we aren’t fortunate enough to have a dictator like Alfred the Great.

  • guldukat
    10•3 months ago

    He’s been in office 3 months. Please kill me, make it quick

  • Aeri
    3•3 months ago

    GOLLY, SOMEBODY SHOULD REALLY [ Removed by Reddit ].

    • @[email protected]English
      3•3 months ago

      I’m surprised more animus isn’t directed toward him specifically. I suspect he’s the mastermind behind most of the worst policies coming out of this administration.

      Vice News long ago ran a profile on him covering his hard-right radicalization starting from his reaction to his liberal high school in Santa Monica. Unfortunately, this video of that on facebook is all I can find.

  • JaggedRobotPubesEnglish
    1•3 months ago

    Start talking about how you love it when Americans are good to each other, and when they want each other to have things like healthcare.

  • @[email protected]
    1•3 months ago

    Better get his fat orange ass on the next plane to el Salvador then. He hates america more than anyone else

  • Match!!English
    22•3 months ago

    america means freedom and diversity and immigrants. the trump administration hates america

  • @[email protected]
    59•3 months ago

    Some worried the administration was veering into authoritarian territory.

    Oh good, you’re finally awake. Let’s get you caught up on the last six months.

      • @[email protected]
        8•3 months ago

        For us, yes. For Republicans, no. In Trump’s first term:

        He stacked the Supreme Court in his favor (2 of the 3 he appointed helped steal the 2000 election for Bush)
        He appointed a record number of federal judges (260, most of which come from the Federalist Society)
        He reversed a CFPB rule that made it easier to file class action lawsuits against banks for fucking us over
        He oversaw more federal executions of prisoners than any president in 120 years
        He cut corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%, the lowest rate since 1939
        He pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and our spot was filled by China

        There is so much more that he got done which set the stage for what is happening now. For example, he tried to pass about two thirds of the Heritage Foundation’s ‘Mandate for Leadership’ policies in his first term, which is what inspired them to write ‘Project 2025’, another iteration of the Mandate on steroids.

        The fact that Trump lost the election in 2020 is a total fluke, and it took a global pandemic that killed over a million Americans to make him lose.

        His first term was far from a shit show in terms of making the current shit show possible.

        • @[email protected]
          3•3 months ago

          “He stacked the Supreme Court in his favor (2 of the 3 he appointed helped steal the 2000 election for Bush)”

          Fucking, what!?

      • @[email protected]
        18•3 months ago

        Yeah, no, this term there’s a lot less kayfabe, a lot more actual speedrunning tyranny. Not to say that they weren’t angling at tyranny before, but it’s clear they learned their lessons and came back with a plan.