Well, at least maybe your moral compass needs some calibration? I typically go out of my way to avoid personal attacks here. But it's hard to do so if the reaction to "people get detained and locked up for more than a month with bad medical care" is: "oh great, no more far left".
We not should celebrate a slide into authoritarianism, which always starts with bullying weakly-positioned groups first, but the government has already floated with the idea of deporting Americans (and apparently already deported American kids [1]).
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/27/us/children-us-citizens-d...
I don’t even know where to start with that. Consider whether you have a broken moral compass or something. Consider moving to an actual dictatorship country instead of supporting the introduction of dictatorship in a new country?
Edit: beaten to the “moral compass” thing. Well said, above.
Do you think that the whole "diversity statement" and DEI shticks were exactly tools of removal of people with different political views from academia?
US academia political activity is what made it attractive target for Trump administration. I'd prefer that it didn't happen or that US didn't have a president willing to destroy the academia, but I'd also prefer that universities would act as non-partisan entities. I think Boaz Barak summarized it well [1]
On a separate note, US searching/detaining/refusing entrance to other countries' nationals happened all the time [2,3,4,5,6,7], I don't think it's newsworthy or should change your position on visiting US.
[1] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/28/barak-harvard-m...
[2] https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-entry-horror-...
[3] https://firrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/September-2024_...
[4] https://immigrantjustice.org/press-releases/three-travelers-...
[5] https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-depo...
[6] https://www.propublica.org/article/can-customs-border-protec...
[7] https://thepienews.com/indian-government-gives-student-trave...