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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/d0d52e0810a057a4 https://verfassungsblog.de/prairieland-ice-protest-terrorism-charges/ Black is the New Orange - How Antiterrorism Laws are Becoming a Weapon to Stifle Dissent Mose, Gregory eng 2026-06-30 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 anti-terrorism Authoritarian Populism counter-terrorism law ICE Palestine Action Trump Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Last week, eight anti-ICE protesters were sentenced at the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas, receiving a combined 450 years in prison. The sentencing has provoked much condemnation in Europe, and rightly so. Thirty years for moving a box of pamphlets. Fifty for showing up at a protest wearing black. Legally, the concept of terrorism has been hollowed out since the 1990s by legislation that paves the way for massive sentences for relatively banal crimes like moving a box of pamphlets.