"Beware the demagogues ready to declare a trade war against our friends"

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during the eighteenth century the terms “democracy” and “republic” were used rather interchangeably in both common and philosophical usage. [...]

We have these choices in Montesquieu's and Wilson's usage contemporary to the founding: that a government is a democracy (a form of republic and electoral government), aristocracy (another form of republic and electoral government), monarchy (a monarchy might also be limited with democratic or aristocratic bodies holding power), or despotism.

The United States is a constitutional republic.

This, arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records, occurred under every president and is supported by both parties.

Under Biden, they were catching and releasing illegal immigrants arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting.

Congress passes The Laken Riley Act and Trump signs into law
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/g-s1-4527...-riley-act

Also, in Democrat-controlled cities, they won’t let ICE into the jails and prisons to deport illegal immigrants who have been charged and convicted of crimes after serving their sentences.

The act on its own of being an undocumented immigrant is not criminal, though it is a civil violation.

Crossing the U.S. border without authorization is illegal under 8 U.S.C. § 1325, which carries a penalty of up to six months' imprisonment. Crossing the border illegally a second time is classified as a felony with a maximum sentence of up to two years in prison.