# The Trump deportation news thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 25, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404 "2025-01-25T23:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/281 "2025-03-29T20:01:14Z")
Chuck De Nomolos? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/282 "2025-03-29T21:30:11Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > As an aside, who does Tom Homan look like? If seen that scowling face in some old movie or tv show. Isn’t he the guy that played ‘opposing lawyer’ in a million legal dramas? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/283 "2025-03-30T01:38:28Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ♫ _Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great disgrace > So we Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer’s face_ ♫ I find myself singing this A LOT lately > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > As an aside, who does Tom Homan look like? If seen that scowling face in some old movie or tv show. And trying to figure out this very same thing. Some malevolent sheriff are prison guard or something. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/284 "2025-03-30T10:17:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ♫ _Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great disgrace > So we Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer’s face_ ♫ 🎶_[Heil myself](https://genius.com/26054051/Mel-brooks-springtime-for-hitler-broadway-version/Heil-myself)_ _Heil to me_ _[I’m the kraut](https://genius.com/12693993/Mel-brooks-springtime-for-hitler-broadway-version/Im-the-kraut)_ _Who’s out to change our history_ _Heil myself_ _[Raise your hand](https://genius.com/15323648/Mel-brooks-springtime-for-hitler-broadway-version/Raise-your-hand)_ _There’s no greater_ _Dictator in the land!_ _[Everything I do, I do for you!](https://genius.com/26967811/Mel-brooks-springtime-for-hitler-broadway-version/Everything-i-do-i-do-for-you)_ 🎶 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/285 "2025-03-30T10:19:36Z")
Apparently if you leave Vizio smart TVs idle they just start autoplaying Trumpaganda. > **[Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1jkwcbx/if_i_leave_my_vizio_tv_idle_it_plays_calming/?rdt=54482)** ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/286 "2025-03-30T11:37:07Z")
I’m not even going to bother quoting the most recent story of masked thugs with ICE badges kidnapping yet another PhD student and sending them to a detention facility for deportation – this is just a recurring story. The bottom line here is this. If (a) you’re a non-resident in the US on a student visa, and (b) you’ve participated in a student protest in favour of Palestinians or against Israeli atrocities, or written an op-ed supporting such, or exercised your First Amendment rights in any way that Trump doesn’t like, and especially if (c) you have brown skin, or a Middle Eastern name, or – God forbid, a woman who wears a hijab – then you **will** be targeted for arrest, detention, and deportation. That seems to be the unfolding reality. These students came to the US for education and to do post-graduate research. Now they are like Jews in late 1930s Germany. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/287 "2025-03-30T14:03:37Z")
I went to the supermarket the other day, and I saw four people (at least one woman) walking to their car. They were all wearing black uniforms. I suppose the could have been Blaine PD. Sheriff deputies wear olive drab uniforms. I’m not sure what the border patrol wears. They were going to a small, private car and not an official vehicle. I was wearing a pin depicting crossed U.S. and Ukrainian flags. It occurred to me that if ICE decided to arrest me for supporting Ukraine, I’d have no way to prove I’m an American citizen. I’d just disappear, and neither my wife nor our cats would know what happened to me. I told this to my wife after she said she might start carrying her passport with her as a matter of course. I said, ‘Ve must carry our _papersss!_’ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/288 "2025-03-30T14:05:52Z")
Someone wondered in one thread if a Real ID license was sufficient to prove citizenship or at least legal residency. I don’t know the answer. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/289 "2025-03-30T15:27:58Z")
I feel like … if _you_ got grabbed up under questionable pretenses … your wife could go all action movie hero and fetch your happy ass out pronto: [![](https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/rms/photo/black-hawk/armed/Armed_Black_Hawk_1920x1125.png.pc-adaptive.768.medium.png) ](https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/rms/photo/black-hawk/armed/Armed_Black_Hawk_1920x1125.png.pc-adaptive.768.medium.png) Most of the rest of us? Screwed. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/290 "2025-03-30T15:32:58Z")
Are they going to bring back those who they just sent down to El Salvadore? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/291 "2025-03-30T16:20:36Z")
I doubt they will do that even if a majority of SCOTUS tells them they have to bring them back and give them their day in court. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/292 "2025-03-30T16:35:43Z")
Yeah. That would fall under the ever-growing list of “Or what?” responses. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/293 "2025-03-30T16:55:34Z")
They autoplay commercials. The Trump administration has purchased some commercials, so those might get played. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/294 "2025-03-30T18:11:07Z")
It definitely doesn’t prove citizenship. I think it does prove legal residency. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/295 "2025-03-30T19:52:57Z")
Our Vizio TV is dying and I was looking to replace it with another, Trump commercials or no, the fact the feature can’t be turned off makes it a hard no for me. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/296 "2025-03-30T22:22:45Z")
Yeah, the wife and I are going to Puerto Rico in a few weeks. I looked at her today and said “It sounds stupid since we’re not leaving the US, but I think we should bring our passports.” Her response was, “Yeah, I was going to mention that. I agree.” Fucking sad. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/297 "2025-03-30T23:49:19Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > > ♫ _Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great disgrace > > So we Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer’s face_ ♫ > > I find myself singing this A LOT lately I was singing that for a while. I’ve moved on to Dylan: > And I hope that you die > And your death will come soon > I’ll follow your casket > By the pale afternoon > And I’ll watch while you’re lowered > Down to your deathbed > And I’ll stand over your grave > 'Til I’m sure that you’re dead I’m not proud of it, but I can’t get it out of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/298 "2025-03-31T02:25:34Z")
Your comment completes the rhyme. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/299 "2025-03-31T04:47:29Z")
A strange case: > A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. > > Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the associate dean for research at Indiana University’s [Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering](https://luddy.indiana.edu/), a fellow at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a tenured professor at Indiana University at Bloomington… > > As reported by the [Bloomingtonian](https://bloomingtonian.com/2025/03/28/federal-agents-conduct-operation-at-home-on-xavier-court-friday-in-bloomington/) and later the [Herald-Times](https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2025/03/28/fbi-department-of-homeland-security-agents-search-house-in-bloomington-indiana/82710451007/) in Bloomington, a small fleet of unmarked cars driven by government agents descended on the Bloomington home of Wang and Ma on Friday. They spent most of the day going in and out of the house and occasionally transferred boxes from their vehicles. > **[FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado](https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/)** > > Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why. So it’s not clear if this a deportation or Chinese spying or something else. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/300 "2025-03-31T08:12:10Z")
In normal times, we would assume this is related to espionage — a longstanding sleeper agent having been uncovered, or a false accusation of same, or some such. But right now, it’s extremely difficult to give the Trump authorities the benefit of the doubt that this is a normal case being handled in normal ways. It still could be, of course. Maybe even probably. But… my mind resists the formerly routine conclusion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404.md?page=16)