Is it to late to save the U.S.?

 Sunday morning...

Sunday mornings can be wonderful and today's was no different. Before getting up, I watched the dog play on the bed as I read Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure. What a contrast between the happiness of the dog playing and the content of the novel. There were Nazis, the Gestapo to be specific, breaking into Jewish homes and pulling families out to either go to the Drancy Interment Camp before being shipped to one of the concentration camps.

Then it was time to start the day. As usual I checked my computer only to see the video of the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE.

Terrifying: The tactics were not that different from the past to today. ICE refused to properly identify themselves or comply with the laws for the treatment of citizens or those with a legal green card. Nothing would have persuaded them to stop.

Khalil was not Jewish, but he had spoken up against the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. He has a green card. He is married to a U.S. citizen. He was taken to 26 Federal Plaza in New York before being flown to Louisiana where he is allowed only limited access to an attorney. The U.S. Government wants to deport him.

He committed no crime, but in the U.S. speaking for Palestinians although not illegal, is an unwritten taboo.

A British citizen with a tourist VISA was held 10 days in a Tacoma detention center. Her dad said: "She is sharing a cell, surviving on a diet of cold rice, potatoes, and beans (she is vegan), and has limited access to phone calls. Visitors are restricted to speaking through a glass screen via telephone. All her possessions have been confiscated, and she feels isolated and desperate to come home." (Newsweek)

According to Newsweek: "Reports have emerged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained an 18-year-old girl, a military veteran and a man who has worked in the U.S. for 30 years." 

Doesn't anyone see the similarity between what the Nazis did in the 1930s and 1940s? I asked my husband that question. His response, was that they were never taught history.

The arrests and treatment of human beings illegal and/or legal is terrifying.  

Trump, the professional victim, said at a speech at the Justice Department he wants to imprison his enemies. 

What does this mean?

No one is protected by the law. That includes you.

What can be done to save the U.S. from an administration that uses Nazi-like tactics for arrests? Or is it too late?