Americans criticize US state department, with one person saying she felt ‘betrayed’ and treated like ‘an afterthought’

US citizens living in the Middle East say they’re “angry” at the US state department, criticising the Trump administration for having no “backup plan” to help them leave the region in the hours and days after the start of the US-Israel war on Iran.

One person, whose family voted for Trump for his anti-war stance, said she felt “betrayed” and what she perceived as the treatment of US citizens as “an afterthought”.

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    US citizens can’t be denied entry. But everyone knows he doesn’t care about that piece of paper called “the constitution”.

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      Yeah, I feel like all rules are off until someone decides to start holding him accountable; can’t be denied, but they can detain and deport if they want to.

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      Look at ICE. It doesn’t matter what your citizenship is when they are effectively screaming “Patriot pact” and doing whatever they want.

      I don’t think “liberals aren’t welcome anymore” is going to happen (at least for another year or two) just because they are genuinely too stupid to maintain a database of that. But demanding to search phones is already a thing and will only get worse.