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> Sending people back to their homes

That is NOT what is happening: https://archive.is/20250713011900/https://www.washingtonpost...


This is a ruling that allows the Trump admin to deport people to third countries when they are not able to deport them to their home country--either because their home country refuses to facilitate their return, or because they have specific legal rulings preventing their deportation to their home country. It doesn't apply in the overwhelming majority of cases. Pretending otherwise is deeply dishonest and is obviously intended to instill fear for political gain, which is just gross.


intended to instill fear for political gain, which is just gross

lmao that has never stopped MAGA politicians and mouthpieces from fearmongering about immigrants, anyone who's not white, the poor, sexual minorities, feminists, etc. etc.

Apparently the only remedy is to treat conservatives as they treat others.


OP's hysterical claim that 8.4 million people will be "disappeared" is not even remotely comparable with anything MAGA has claimed, as you well know.


20 million illegal immigrants in the US, it's an invasion, they're all military age men, the white population of this country is being replaced, they're sending rapists, they're sending murderers, etc. etc. MAGA has been about paranoia and propaganda directed at immigrants since the day Trump came down the escalator.


> MAGA has been about paranoia and propaganda directed at immigrants since the day Trump came down the escalator.

And literally none of it, not even all of it together, gets close to this disgusting, monstrous lie about 8 million people being "disappeared".

> 20 million illegal immigrants in the US

Trump exaggerates number of illegals, so it's okay to invent, from whole cloth, a conspiracy theory that he's disappearing millions of them? Yikes.

> it's an invasion

It is, in the same sense that Jan 6 was an "insurrection". Politics is a word game. Playing a word game is different than hysterically fearmongering about a nonexistant holocaust.

> they're all military age men

Military-age men are much more common among illegals than the US population. Reading too much into a fact is obviously deceptive. It's also obviously a different kind of deceptive than inventing, from whole cloth, the lie that 8 million people are being "disappeared".

> the white population of this country is being replaced

MAGA extrapolates trendlines. Disgusting!

> they're sending rapists, they're sending murderers

Trump said this once in 2016 so you can invent any hysterical lie, forever, and pretend that it's justifiable, because the standard for your behavior is... Donald Trump, apparently.


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lol trusting ICE with their data


Yeah, we're just sending them to torture camps in 3rd world African countries where they'll probably starve. Very legal, very cool.


We've sent a handful of criminals (among them a murderer and a child rapist) to third countries after their own countries refused to take them back. It is deeply dishonest to pretend that this practice applies to everyone being deported.


They've asserted their authority to send people to another country that they came from, like sending people Liberia and South Sudan. So it looks like you are the one living in an echo chamber rather then reality.


Some criminals whose home countries refused to take them back were sent to third countries, ergo we're "disappearing" everyone who is deported? That's your position?


May I familiarize you with the Madagascar Plan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan

The Nazis were claiming they'd deport the Jews at first. It never goes directly to death camps, it's baby steps of normalization.

> "But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

- Milton Meyer, They Thought They Were Free - The Germans, 1933 - 1945


The "one neat trick" the Nazis did

was first declaring all Jews illegal immigrants

that was what opened to door to every creeping horror next

then they took away healthcare because they were illegal immigrants

then they took away the right to have jobs because...

they they limited where they could exist/shop/times of day in public because...

THEN they got to the concentration-camps

THEN they got to "well too many and bullets are too expensive/tedious, let's build gas ovens"

All it takes is "othering" a group of people by any characteristic and the majority of the rest of the population says "well that's not me so not worried"

Right now in America there thousands of people WITH GREEN CARDS (legal status) sitting in our concentration-camps, no criminal records, and they will be there for several months awaiting hearings before being deported.

Then you've got the teenage kids who have never lived in any other country that are being held in our concentration-camps and will be deported? To where?




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