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Tootbsb

(96 posts)
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 02:54 PM Apr 8

They were not deported.

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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They were not deported. (Original Post) Tootbsb Apr 8 OP
Thank you................. Lovie777 Apr 8 #1
Freedom elliesmandt Apr 8 #32
YES! They were kidnapped NOT arrested, removed NOT deported! Maru Kitteh Apr 9 #43
Krasnov is a monster. GoodRaisin Apr 8 #2
AND there was NO due process involved. They were kidnapped and immediately shipped off to Scrivener7 Apr 8 #3
I was thinking renditioned, but not a time for a semantic argument... Wounded Bear Apr 8 #4
deport - To expel from a country. JoseBalow Apr 8 #5
I guess words are fungible on DU. maxsolomon Apr 8 #8
Usually people who are deported out of a country are not sold to torture prisons in another country. Irish_Dem Apr 8 #9
Eh, Hornedfrog2000 Apr 8 #10
Nope Cirsium Apr 8 #17
Is there no more context? paleotn Apr 8 #25
Exile - the expulsion or banishment of a person from their land Torchlight Apr 8 #26
That does seem quite accurate JoseBalow Apr 8 #34
Yes deport is a verb ToxMarz Apr 8 #28
The correct legal term might be "extraordinary rendition" many a good man Apr 9 #42
More Malice in Blunderland. GreenWave Apr 8 #6
Just like the Red Queen! Mossfern Apr 8 #12
"Due process" is not a part of a Bill of Rights that consists only of a Second Amendment. marble falls Apr 8 #7
Spaniards & South Americans know exactly what to call these people: Desaparecidos Hekate Apr 8 #11
Los Desaparecidos lastlib Apr 8 #22
Human trafficking. pandr32 Apr 8 #13
Bingo, human trafficking LittleGirl Apr 8 #14
The American Gulag Archipelago. n/t lastlib Apr 8 #23
This is sickening! Dehumanizing people in an effort Dark n Stormy Knight Apr 8 #35
YES, if recieved money, it's bluestarone Apr 8 #27
I don't think kidnapping is appropriate ClarencesBrother Apr 8 #15
That's what I was thinking, too. Slave marketing. Horrendous! wordstroken Apr 8 #16
I'm sure several/most of the stolen people are dead by now. GoYouPackersGo Apr 8 #18
They were sold Figarosmom Apr 8 #19
Truth. SSJVegeta Apr 8 #20
6 million a year was agreed to for EACH prisoner. Our taxes are paying for this. And the illegality denying Evolve Dammit Apr 8 #21
Actually it was 6 million for 300 people for one year or $25K per person. Not all 300 were sent though. n/t. airplaneman Apr 9 #38
that was not the figure I heard quoted but I'll take your word for it. Evolve Dammit Apr 9 #47
They were kidnapped and sold into slavery. Clouds Passing Apr 8 #24
How about Disappeared or Stolen or Removed Zackzzzz Apr 8 #29
Shanghai'd. But not to Shanghai. C_U_L8R Apr 8 #30
Given the criminal nature of the government of El Salvador moniss Apr 8 #31
Other countries should charge them with kacekwl Apr 8 #33
Disappeared enid602 Apr 8 #36
we can bandy et tu Apr 8 #37
These types have waited us into this situation. Tootbsb Apr 9 #46
It's simple: ReRe Apr 9 #39
They were human trafficked. intheflow Apr 9 #40
Hear Hear! OldBaldy1701E Apr 9 #41
you could even say they were sold into slavery LymphocyteLover Apr 9 #44
..outsourced Auschwitz!! thomski64 Apr 9 #45

Maru Kitteh

(30,091 posts)
43. YES! They were kidnapped NOT arrested, removed NOT deported!
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 11:01 AM
Apr 9

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.

Scrivener7

(55,422 posts)
3. AND there was NO due process involved. They were kidnapped and immediately shipped off to
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 02:59 PM
Apr 8

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)
4. I was thinking renditioned, but not a time for a semantic argument...
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 02:59 PM
Apr 8

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)
5. deport - To expel from a country.
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 03:00 PM
Apr 8

Do words have meanings?

deport /dĭ-pôrt′/
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)
8. I guess words are fungible on DU.
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 03:03 PM
Apr 8

"It's not a deportation unless there's due process" is a distinction without a difference.

Irish_Dem

(68,459 posts)
9. Usually people who are deported out of a country are not sold to torture prisons in another country.
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 03:39 PM
Apr 8

Cirsium

(2,339 posts)
17. Nope
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 04:43 PM
Apr 8
Deportation is a legal term that refers to the process of removing a non-citizen from the United States. Deportation occurs based on an order from the federal government when a non-citizen, also referred to as an “immigrant,” or “alien,” commits a serious crime or violates immigration laws. Deportation must follow a specific legal process in which the alien has certain rights. To explore this concept, consider the following deportation definition

https://legaldictionary.net/deportation/

Torchlight

(4,548 posts)
26. Exile - the expulsion or banishment of a person from their land
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:19 PM
Apr 8

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.'

ToxMarz

(2,362 posts)
28. Yes deport is a verb
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:33 PM
Apr 8

And laws are not verbs. He was not legally deported though physically he was.

many a good man

(6,003 posts)
42. The correct legal term might be "extraordinary rendition"
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 10:57 AM
Apr 9

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.

Hekate

(97,318 posts)
11. Spaniards & South Americans know exactly what to call these people: Desaparecidos
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 03:45 PM
Apr 8

For shame, USA, for shame

LittleGirl

(8,663 posts)
14. Bingo, human trafficking
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 04:02 PM
Apr 8

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.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,349 posts)
35. This is sickening! Dehumanizing people in an effort
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 07:27 PM
Apr 8

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)
27. YES, if recieved money, it's
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:20 PM
Apr 8

Human trafficking. YES! Edit to add. It's kinda like slavery. Seems like these MAGA'S like this time period.

ClarencesBrother

(17 posts)
15. I don't think kidnapping is appropriate
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 04:14 PM
Apr 8

If money exchanged hands that’s usually referred to as slave marketing!!

Evolve Dammit

(20,516 posts)
21. 6 million a year was agreed to for EACH prisoner. Our taxes are paying for this. And the illegality denying
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:08 PM
Apr 8

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)
38. Actually it was 6 million for 300 people for one year or $25K per person. Not all 300 were sent though. n/t.
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 02:48 AM
Apr 9

Zackzzzz

(55 posts)
29. How about Disappeared or Stolen or Removed
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:37 PM
Apr 8

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)
30. Shanghai'd. But not to Shanghai.
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:50 PM
Apr 8

El Salvador'd?

It's a crime against humanity is what it is.

moniss

(7,090 posts)
31. Given the criminal nature of the government of El Salvador
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:52 PM
Apr 8

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)
33. Other countries should charge them with
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 05:57 PM
Apr 8

human rights violations. They need to face severe consequences for this. Prison at least.

enid602

(9,301 posts)
36. Disappeared
Tue Apr 8, 2025, 08:02 PM
Apr 8

“They were kidnapped, not deported.”. This is much to kind. These immigrants were ‘disappeared’. Without due process.

ReRe

(11,564 posts)
39. It's simple:
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 02:53 AM
Apr 9

It's Trump's bigoted white supremacy policy of "disappearing" people who don't look like him. Period.

intheflow

(29,520 posts)
40. They were human trafficked.
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:42 AM
Apr 9

Kidnapped and sold into slavery. Why is no one using this defense?

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