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On Tuesday,<\/span> eight<\/span> protesters who the Justice Department accused of having connections to antifa were sentenced to decades in federal prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that left one police officer wounded.\u00a0<\/p>

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The demonstrator who was convicted of shooting and wounded the officer, former US Marine Corps reservist Benjamin Song, was convicted of attempted murder in March and received a 100-year prison term. Seven other protesters received sentences ranging from 30 to 70 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

US District Judge Reed O\u2019Connor, a George W. Bush nominee, said the defendants in what has become known as the Prairieland trial, didn\u2019t participate in a protest but \u201can assault on democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justice Department prosecutors under the Trump administration have made extensive use of wide-ranging conspiracy charges in cases like Prairieland, where some of the defendants who received decades-long sentences were not involved with the planning of the protest in question and left when guards at the facility asked them to.<\/p>\n

As my colleague Schuyler Mitchell wrote in September, the Trump administration signed a September 22 executive order designating \u201cantifa\u201d a domestic terrorist organization and a memo three days later, known as NSPM-7, assigning federal agencies to \u201cinvestigate, prosecute, and disrupt\u201d protesters engaging in \u201canti-capitalism,\u201d \u201canti-fascism,\u201d and \u201canti-Americanism.\u201d The Prairieland trial was one of the first tests of the White House\u2019s ability to make such claims stick.<\/p>

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The defendants, who were protesting the Prairieland immigration detention center in Alvarado, Texas, denied that they were affiliated with antifa, a decentralized term for various left-wing activists and anti-fascist groups, and were demonstrating in support of immigrants being detained at the facility.<\/p>\n

In November, seven other defendants who were present at Prairieland pleaded guilty to federal charges of providing material support for terrorism or damaging property.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has deployed allegations of terrorism against protesters at an unprecedented scale. As my colleague Sophie Hurwitz pointed out, the Justice Department charged 15 Minneapolis-area residents last week with felony \u201cconspiracy to impede or injure federal officers,\u201d and secured a conviction on the same charges against three Spokane, Washington, protesters. Both groups protested ICE facilities.<\/p>

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