I wrote recently about the dead-listing of certain immigrants by removing them from the Social Security rolls. Jonathan Ryan takes it further and also reports on another disturbing recent development, that of the government sending people notices telling them that their "parole" has been revoked and they must leave the country — and he shows us how this is all of a piece. Thank you, Jonathan, for showing the connections and putting this all in the larger context. Turns out an authoritarian doesn't need tanks to take over a country. Manipulating the levers of bureaucracy will do.
I wrote recently about the dead-listing of certain immigrants by removing them from the Social Security rolls. Jonathan Ryan takes it further and also reports on another disturbing recent development, that of the government sending people notices telling them that their "parole" has been revoked and they must leave the country — and he shows us how this is all of a piece. Thank you, Jonathan, for showing the connections and putting this all in the larger context. Turns out an authoritarian doesn't need tanks to take over a country. Manipulating the levers of bureaucracy will do.
This is stuff out of the book 1984! This so scary, wrong, insane and devastating on so many levels!!