When Constitutional Guardrails Fail
Summary
The article uses Gregory Stanton's Ten Stages of Genocide and Levitsky & Ziblatt's warning-sign frameworks to assess whether constitutional safeguards are eroding in U.S. immigration enforcement. It documents a trajectory of erosion through court defiance, habeas corpus challenges, shrinking immigration-judicial capacity, and examples of violence and dehumanization. The author argues that, while not equating to Nazi Germany, the current trajectory demands early, preventive action to avoid further erosion.