EDITOR’S NOTE : This scenario, developed by Milwaukee Independent, is not a prediction. It is a structured analysis of how current U.S. immigration policy under Donald Trump and his regime could escalate toward mass atrocity. Grounded in legal precedent, administrative actions, and international inaction, this projection follows a timeline from today through 2028. Drawing on comparisons to the early phases of 20th-century genocides, particularly Germany’s persecution of Jews before World War II, it examines how a migrant detention system could expand into a national campaign of disappearance and extermination. This editorial is only intended as a cautionary study of convergence: how law, power, economic instability, and silence can create conditions for the unthinkable.

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