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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago

The concept that treating people differently based on whether or not the government decides they are "citizens" or not is authoritarian in its own right; it's an ideological position being unilaterally forced on people by the government, with lethal violence if needed.

Not that the USA isn't authoritarian towards its own citizens, it has the largest prison population on the planet - comparable to the gulags at the height of Stalin's rule - for a reason.