An indifferent America watches our Constitutional rights vanish

In the first hundred days of Donald Trump's presidency, his administration has led a crackdown on people that have been labeled violent, illegal immigrants.

We see it in the news -- especially from outlets supporting this administration -- where people are taken from their homes without due process or warrants, and sent off to wherever Immigration & Customs Enforcement deems appropriate.

Sometimes these people are sent to their country of origin. Sometimes they aren't. Marco Rubio struck deals with both the countries of El Salvador and Guatemala to receive deportees of different nationalities. Salvadorian president Nayib Bukele has welcomed many of these people by sending them to his highest security prison, CECOT.

Here's where we are as a country: people are getting deported haphazardly.

Some of these people are here illegally, but others aren't.
Some of them have criminal records, while others don't.
Some of them are not citizens, but some of them are.

They scary problem with a number of these deportations are that they aren't afforded due process of law. If someone is going to get sent out of the country, they deserve their time in court to plead their case (even if it's in an immigration court where defendants are judged more harshly than civil or criminal courts). In some of these cases people are getting sent out of the country before they even have the chance to notify a lawyer or their families.

Spouses and parents spend weeks with government officials trying to locate their missing family members only to discover that they are already gone.

We as a country are skirting this due process of law to deport whoever ICE wants, whenever and wherever they choose. Natural-born minor American citizens are getting sent away with their families over perceived immigration infractions. In the last few days, judges that have ruled against the government in some immigration cases have found themselves also getting arrested.

To be clear: the government depriving people of their life, liberty and property is as clear of a human rights offense as possible.

The worst part is: there's a whole swath of the country that is embracing this behavior.

We are getting trained as a populous to become numb to the government rounding people up. We are supposed to cheer when immigrants are sent to prisons built to keep people in forever. We are told to celebrate their loss of rights as asylum seekers are returned to the country they are fearfully trying to escape from.

Since the founding of this country, there have always been groups of Americans that have considered immigrants of many kinds to be a lower class of human being. That they are somehow undeserving of the same rights afforded those who were born in this country to the right parents.

This modern rejection of human beings based on their immigration status is disturbing and cruel. It's a game that nobody wins, except for the people invested in private immigration centers that dot the country's borders.

If you're disturbed about the country's modern treatment of immigrants, let your representatives know. Reach out to your congresspeople, governor, state government, anyone with the power to change the policies being used to suppress the rights of people trying to improve their life in our country.

Your voice means nothing if you don't use it.