The fact that the Trump/Musk DOJ — without due process & in defiance of federal courts — snatches people up, puts them on planes, and deports them to an authoritarian country where those people will be forced into slave labor in an inhumane prison should be a much bigger story.
@Strandjunker it should be. They bought the media so it wouldn’t be.
@Strandjunker I think the bigger story is #MAGAmoron thumbing his nose at courts and #Dems wringing their hands and tut-tutting.
@Strandjunker we are no different from any other banana republic
Trump can and will declare anyone he doesn't like The Worst of the Worst. They needn't be citizens, legal aliens, immigrant children or families. students on valid visa, green card holders. All he needs is anger and a whim. He has those in abundance.
If he succeeds here, he will push the envelope. Enough is never enough, it's a good start.
Private prison companies CoreCivic and Geo Corp donated heavily to Trump, for a reason.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/private-prison-mass-deportation-trump-billions-geogroup-corecivic-ice/
Overseas jails offer even more opportunities for profit without oversight.
Penal colonies and gulags like the ones Navalny died in.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/navalny-lawyers-jailed-1.7434035
@Strandjunker It should be THE STORY!
@Strandjunker suggested headline: Trump is remaking the US into Russia
@Strandjunker I have a feeling that if Biden ever did something like this, Republicans would have something to say about the tyranny, but when a D is in office they only fear FEMA workers who are trying to help them in a disaster.
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It will be only as soon as he adds persons last #pardoned by #biden - also without courts involved - to these flights.
I guess there is little sympathy for people who are declared - even without legal proof - as criminals.
Number 11 of #umbertoeco 's warning signs: 'Constant search for external culprits'
@Strandjunker Let alone the DOMESTIC slave labor camps and the horrifying detention centers (revealed only when white people were caught up in this nazi shit). And not to even mention the common torture practice of solitary confinement.
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It should immediately bring charges from the ICC I would think. Never seen anything like this before. It's one thing if these prison were in the US but I foreign dictatorship to work as slaves?