Documenting post-2025 removals of legal residents & visitors under the Trump administration
This project is a wake-up call. When lawful permanent residents, and increasingly U.S. citizens, can be dragged away without the most basic guarantees of due process, the Republic is on borrowed time. Freedom denied to one soon becomes freedom denied to all.
"That it is better one hundred guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer ..." – Benjamin Franklin, 1785
"No man shall be disfranchised or deprived of any right, but by due process of law ..." – Alexander Hamilton
"The Constitution protects equally the liberties of all who come within the territory of the United States." – Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
"Now the branches come too close to grinding irrevocably against one another ... The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will sign its epitaph." – Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III (Reagan appointee)
The clock is ticking. Either we defend the rule of law for everyone or we watch the lights of the American experiment blink out.
"For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences." – Declaration of Independence, 1776
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech ..." – First Amendment
"... nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ..." – Fifth Amendment
"The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended ..." – Article I, Section 9
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial ..." – Sixth Amendment
"Excessive bail shall not be required ..." – Eighth Amendment
"... nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ..." – Fourteenth Amendment