Donald Trump unleashed his Immigrations ghouls on innocent legal immigrants who are obeying the law!

Red Alert: 

Trump Administration is Disappearing Legal Foreign Nationals
including our Canadian Neighbors! 

So many of us in Maine and New England have friends and relatives who live in Canada. We often visit back and forth. 

Echo opinion published in the Topsham Scoop electronic newsletter

at this site here.

We are neighbors. At first our Canadian friends curtailed their travel to Maine and elsewhere in the US in protest of Trump's bullying tariffs and threats of annexation. Rightly so. But now, ominously, tourists and other legal residents and travelers from Canada and Europe are being randomly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), thrown into cement cells, often transported to for-profit prisons, provided virtually no access to communication, phones, lawyers, or even told of alleged errors or wrongdoing.

It happened to Canadian Jasmine Mooney, who was held in detention for 12 days, apparently, because she goofed and went to a border crossing, instead of a consulate, to arrange for her U.S. work permit.

It happened to a Welsh tourist, Rebecca Burke,  held for 19 days in Tacoma, Washington, because, she thinks, some at ICE thought, erroneously, that she might be trying to work here without the right visa. It happened to three German citizens as well, one a permanent resident in the United States. (Axios, 3/20/25).

These brutal detentions without a hearing are happening to other immigrants too. Lawful permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil is still being held without charge because he peacefully protested for Palestinian rights. Over 200 Venezuelans were hurriedly arrested and boarded on planes with no process at all to a notorious prison in El Salvador, dubiously contracted for use by the Trump Administration. A District Court has held they were denied due process. 

On appeal, before a three judge panel, one judge noted during oral argument that Nazis had more due process being deported in WWII than these Venezuelans. (ABC, 3/24/25)

These situations are harrowing❗ Naturally, who would want to risk crossing our borders, even legally❓ Tourism is falling, but, most distressingly, so is the Constitution of the United States.

This is not who we are. We are not a brutal authoritarian gulag state - are we❓ Not by law. The 5th Amendment of the Constitution says we shall not deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. 

It applies to anyone, whether or not a citizen, in the United States. No one should be held in detention in this country or stripped of legal status without a fair hearing so they can state their case - due process of law. Period.💢

If the Administration either decides to ignore court orders or gets a corrupted Supreme Court to see the law their way, they will be able to sweep up virtually anyone and disappear them. Citizens or immigrants, legal or not, who knows❓ For there will never be a right to a hearing to figure out who they were. That is the power of abusing the 5th Amendment of the Constitution. We must protest it here.

In the meantime, I'll visit my family in Canada, so my relatives need not risk coming here and meeting a dangerously brainwashed ICE agent. Indeed, Canada, maybe you could save us and annex Maine❓ We ordinary people would surely be more secure.