They don’t even need to criminalize your conduct to indefinitely detain / deport you, and you might be deported to a country with even less due process / human rights protections.
It’s an important distinction, because it means they don’t have to criminalize things that their allies also do in order to catch their intended targets.
Once they’ve found they can ignore the courts to just kidnap and disappear anyone they don’t like from immigrant populations, what’s to stop them moving on to US citizens? Fascists aren’t known for their restraint.
They don’t even need to criminalize your conduct to indefinitely detain / deport you, and you might be deported to a country with even less due process / human rights protections.
It’s an important distinction, because it means they don’t have to criminalize things that their allies also do in order to catch their intended targets.
Once they’ve found they can ignore the courts to just kidnap and disappear anyone they don’t like from immigrant populations, what’s to stop them moving on to US citizens? Fascists aren’t known for their restraint.