This is already happening to find out who has been supporting Palenstinians in Gaza, and conflating that as support for Hamas, and then deporting people. Perma

This is already happening to find out who has been supporting Palenstinians in Gaza, and conflating that as support for Hamas, and then deporting people. Permanent residents a people with student visas are advised to not travel due to the risks or arbitrary detention, search of social media, and deportation on trumped up charges. This researcher, asked to carry frog embryos by her advisor in the way back from France, has been detained becuase od the paperwork around them and may be deported to a hostile nation on those grounds: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/russian-scientist-harvard-medical-school-ice-detention https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/russian-scie... I only link to this one because it's closest to my very narrow area of biology but this sort of thing is happening daily and on even more egregious grounds. We currently live in an authoritarian state, we just don't all realize it equally, yet.