President Trump is planning to invoke a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as soon as Friday to authorize the summary deportation of some migrants, including to Guantanamo Bay, escalating his government-wide immigration crackdown, multiple U.S. officials familiar with the plan told CBS News.

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    America: Thanks to trump, it’s now the greatest shithole on earth.

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    So, not that it matters anymore, since this is now a dictatorship, but that law is only applicable during a declared war. I wonder who Congress declared war on?

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      Trump has been talking about making Canada the 51st state, annexing Greenland, going to war with Mexican cartels, and is actively telling the military to start making a plan for taking the Panama canal by force. He clearly doesn’t give a shit about who is allowed to formally declare war, he’s pushing to make this happen regardless.

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      According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the President can invoke the act without a war declaration if a foreign government threatens or attempts an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” against US territory. Invasion in that context has historically been defined as large-scale attacks, while “predatory incursion” has been defined as small skirmishes. And it’s the latter that Trump is hinging his argument on by declaring that the gang he’s claiming to target is working on the orders of the Venezuelan government.

      https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/alien-enemies-act-explained

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      It’s also irrelevant here.

      Dedovshchina happens in most post-Soviet states.

      It is practiced by Ukrainians in Ukraine.

      Also practiced by Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan.

      Practiced by Armenians in Armenia.

      Turkmenistan had to formally declare the practice of Dedovshchina illegal in 2014.

      It is a problem that originated from a total fuck up regarding conscription laws way back in Soviet times.

      It is also being healed and becoming less common in many post-Soviet states including Russia (especially due to 2008 reforms) and Ukraine.

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              As opposed to up to 60,000 of your (assuming your American) troops being penetratively raped per year? That seems to be organized as well.

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                  Nope it is not invented.

                  But comes from the American Psychological Association stating that rates of military sexual trauma among men who served in the military may be as much as 15 times higher than has been previously reported and this number being applied to Pentagon’s reported numbers of 12,000 male victims with 3,850 reported “penetrative” attacks which means if you increase this 15x as per study, you get up to 180,000 men being assaulted in one year and, of those, 57,750 are “penetrative” attacks.