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Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.
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Lovie777
(18,065 posts)"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"--Kris Kristofferson
Maru Kitteh
(30,091 posts)Arrest and deportation are legal acts. What is done to these people in most cases is neither arrest (no warrant) nor deportation (requires a hearing) so BY DEFINITION they are NOT legal acts.
GoodRaisin
(10,116 posts)Scrivener7
(55,422 posts)Salvadorean torture prisons.
There's an idea circulating around DU that Garcia is being given due process.
It's ridiculous. Due process to justify a kidnapping and sale of a person AFTER the kidnapping and sale take place is by definition NOT due process.
Wounded Bear
(61,762 posts)I consider that term because Bush set the precedent that we can sweep people up and move them to foreign shores without due process because they are "undesirables." trump has just upped the numbers.
JoseBalow
(7,249 posts)Do words have meanings?
transitive verb
- To expel from a country.
"deported the foreigner who had entered the country illegally."
- To behave or conduct (oneself) in a given manner; comport.
- To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment; to expel (from a region or country).
Similar: deported
maxsolomon
(36,378 posts)"It's not a deportation unless there's due process" is a distinction without a difference.
Irish_Dem
(68,459 posts)That would be the concrete definition of the word. Not exactly the same thing.
https://legaldictionary.net/deportation/
paleotn
(20,274 posts)
In this context, deportation is NOT the correct word.
Torchlight
(4,548 posts)by authoritative decree, often for political reasons or as a punishment
a: the state or a period of forced absence from one's country or home
b: the state or a period of voluntary absence from one's country or home.
Words have meaning, and also often illustrate predispositions. So yeah, I'll avoid the use of 'deportation' in favor of 'exile.'
JoseBalow
(7,249 posts)ToxMarz
(2,362 posts)And laws are not verbs. He was not legally deported though physically he was.
many a good man
(6,003 posts)Anybody remember that phrase from the Iraq war times?
Extraordinary rendition is a euphemistically-named policy of state-sponsored abduction in a foreign jurisdiction and transfer to a third state. The best-known use of extraordinary rendition is in a United States-led program during the War on Terror, which circumvented the source country's laws on interrogation, detention, extradition and/or torture. Extraordinary rendition is a type of extraterritorial abduction, but not all extraterritorial abductions include transfer to a third country.
Wiki
The only difference is we're abducting people in our own country instead of a foreign nation. Maybe it should be called extra-extraordinary rendition.
GreenWave
(11,084 posts)First get rid of them, then no trial.
Mossfern
(3,702 posts)"Sentence first—verdict afterwards."
marble falls
(64,813 posts)Hekate
(97,318 posts)For shame, USA, for shame
lastlib
(25,765 posts)Sadly, it's now our country.
pandr32
(12,865 posts)LittleGirl
(8,663 posts)Rounded up, stripped and put on a plane to another country.
We are running a concentration camp abroad.
I’m grossed out and out of my mind angry.
lastlib
(25,765 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,349 posts)to justify inhumane treatment. I hate that this makes me wish some R senator or rep would accidentally be taken away like this. Injustice & cruelty is fine with them until it affects them. Let them see what it's like.
bluestarone
(19,625 posts)Human trafficking. YES! Edit to add. It's kinda like slavery. Seems like these MAGA'S like this time period.
ClarencesBrother
(17 posts)If money exchanged hands that’s usually referred to as slave marketing!!
wordstroken
(1,084 posts)

GoYouPackersGo
(233 posts)So, murder.
Figarosmom
(5,279 posts)It's called human trafficking.
They were kidnapped and sent to what one can only describe as death camps.
Evolve Dammit
(20,516 posts)due process makes our country a farcical joke.
The outrageous part is the Quote from Drumpf being all in, to put American citizens in El Salvadorian for-profit prisons. The gaggle on AF-1 and in the Oval does not ask these questions anymore, because most are afraid for their jobs or have been replaced by RW media outlets lobbing softballs.
airplaneman
(1,318 posts)Evolve Dammit
(20,516 posts)Clouds Passing
(4,433 posts)Zackzzzz
(55 posts)I agree with Rounded Up, as well.
Kidnapped is not always about money.
And with a kidnap, there is a back and forth.
These people have been Disappeared.
C_U_L8R
(47,143 posts)El Salvador'd?
It's a crime against humanity is what it is.
moniss
(7,090 posts)and the drugs, human trafficking etc. that moves through that region it begs the question of whether some of the fascists here are cutting themselves in or if a few "girls for the parties" was part of the deal for El Salvador agreeing to take all of these people. Given the history of Crumb The 1st with his "Teen Beauty Pageant" and Epstein I have little doubt about what "interests" him.
kacekwl
(8,217 posts)human rights violations. They need to face severe consequences for this. Prison at least.
enid602
(9,301 posts)“They were kidnapped, not deported.”. This is much to kind. These immigrants were ‘disappeared’. Without due process.
et tu
(2,152 posts)more words when we are all in the camp
Tootbsb
(96 posts)Like semantics changes a god damn thing.
ReRe
(11,564 posts)It's Trump's bigoted white supremacy policy of "disappearing" people who don't look like him. Period.
intheflow
(29,520 posts)Kidnapped and sold into slavery. Why is no one using this defense?