Guardian: Trump administration struck secret deportation deals
Damning new reporting on the breadth of Trump's deportation operation that follows up on two scoops from The Handbasket last year: the State Department's creation of the Office of Remigration and monetary agreements with "third countries" to accept refugees from elsewhere.
Blitz the Goddamn Dragon4Now that their precious Access has been relinquished, they have every incentive to start digging into this stuff, Bezos be damned.
25A 2 86 47 💯!1so we pay on three ends of this fiasco - we pay the federal agents/ contractors to capture and detain immigrants we pay countries to take deportees and we pay for the loss of productive employees glad the BBB produced more than enough savings to pay for all this winning
I hate it here.1Can someone somewhere please make an estimate of the maximum amount having undocumented people costs taxpayers to compare with what we are paying for ICE and this and the warehouses?? There’s an ad there that causes the Right’s objections to collapse under their own weight.
Peter Sagal80More great enterprise reporting from the Washington Post, with some serious Hannah Arendt vibes.
Simon Little 🍁5Your regular reminder that "remigration" is a white supremacist euphemism for ethnic cleansing
keefe murren2We can start using Office of Remigration headshots as mug shots now since sending someone to a place where they might be tortured is outlawed in the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 C.F.R. §§ 208.16–208.18), which incorporates the Convention Against Torture (CAT) into US Law...
Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Anna O. Law29"‘Hi, just following up again on the email I sent you last week, and the week before that, and the week before that, and the week before that, that you haven’t responded to,’” she said. “And they know they don’t have to because there’s no accountability.”
Kat O’Brien5Must read. Must stop this. Must seek and get justice for the victims and to stop the wrongdoers.
Bronwen Manby4It's by no means the most urgent problem, but many many of these people will be at high risk of statelessness, after losing any documents confirming status in any country where they have a connection, & with no clear legal status where they have now been dumped
Flying Mezerkis4This is Rubio’s doing. $16k a person. I really wish most voters understood this.
maureen4weeping at these stories of evil but also the fact that Nika remembers people in LA plaving their hands on the van leaving MDC. People argue that protest does nothing but your presence can be a reminder for people like her facing this form of torture from our government that we fiercely oppose it.
Rachel Savage2Heartrending investigation by Louisa into Trump's deportation of migrants to third countries they have no ties to
