Bloomberg Asks 'Can Trump Expel Citizens?' Not 'Why Does This Sound Familiar?'
The Bloomberg piece highlights concerns over presidential power regarding citizenship, citing an alleged crime by an Afghan national as the impetus for these plans. What's notably absent is any historical context of the U.S. government targeting specific populations for removal or citizenship stripping. One might recall the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII under Executive Order 9066,
where citizens were forcibly removed from their homes and held in camps, or the 'Operation Wetback' deportations of the 1950s targeting Mexican Americans, including those with citizenship. Instead, the article focuses on the legal complexities of denaturalization, ensuring readers feel sufficiently informed about procedural hurdles, while glossing over the chilling echoes of past abuses. The
implication? This is a 'new' kind of problem to be debated, not a historical pattern of state control over identity, frequently weaponized against perceived 'outsiders' during times of manufactured crisis.