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by csdvrx 412 days ago
In the last discussion about such issues, someone linked https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/the-dark-s... which is worth a read for past abuses:

> Military authorities in California requested census data to identify the Japanese-American population. Then in 1942, president Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order to authorise their removal.

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This is obviously how this is going to be used and anyone thinking otherwise is naive. They are building a system to track dissenters. First it will be used to track down illegal immigrants to justify its existence. We are pretty much going down the "first they came for.." list.
I don't think they even need to be illegal immigrants based on what we are seeing so far with detentions and deportations.

For example Rümeysa Öztürk (the topic popped up on a now-flagged submission, I'm not sure the etiquette about linking to that at this point). Mahmoud Khalil is another one (permanent resident).

why is there not equal scrutiny about a system of "undocumented, illegal" people who are obviously real people?
What system are you talking about?