• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    The article literally says people like him didn’t go unpunished in the past, they just get released on bond rather than taken away from their family and imprisoned.

    Because all he did was overstay a tourist visa.

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        10 hours ago

        Disagreeing since you seem to think that this was in any way something done with precedent. This is entirely unprecedented.

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          10 hours ago

          Hm, I did not mean to imply this specific thing was done with precedent. I did mean to draw attention to the people who let this happen by leaving so many loopholes for trump to take advantage of. Leaving loopholes seems to be standard practice. Like tax law, lots of loopholes for the wealthy.