Why would Trump send Filipinos to Libya?

[Pototan]

My opinion: The Republic of the Philippines is willing to take back any of its citizens who are in the United States without proper documentation. There is no need to send them to a war-torn African country.

From linked article:

MANILA – Senate President Francis Escudero on Thursday condemned a reported plan by US immigration authorities to deport undocumented Asian nationals, including Filipinos, to Libya, calling the move cruel and a violation of basic human rights.

“Filipinos are not camels to be dumped on some Libyan desert. They are human beings who deserve to be accorded all the rights by a state who claim to cherish and uphold them,” Escudero said in a news release

Link:
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1249669

[WarGamer]

1. Amazing how a nation becomes war torn when the US rolld in and spreds demucracy at da point of a spear.

Fuck neocons.

[underpants]

2. Stephen Miller

There’s your answer

[dalton99a]

5. +1. Sadistic evil.

[Deuxcents]

3. Good question..why not send them after due process, if necessary, to their country of origin?

This whole rush to ship people out to just anywhere quickly so the courts cannot keep up, families not notified ad then not keep track of where they were sent is outrageous. Congress! Get to work

[Irish_Dem]

15. Yes deporting them back to their home countries would be easier, cheaper, more humane.

Much better than sending them to death camps.

But not the performative media stunt Trump is aiming for.
And doesn't give him the satisfaction of torturing and killing people.

[Hekate]

4. Why did Hitler send all kinds of people to concentration camps? Why did Stalin et al. create the gulags?

To work them to death in subhuman conditions, and terrorize everyone else.

Trump’s administration is filled with wannabe Hitlers Stalins.

[Gore1FL]

6. The same reason we sent Afghani's and Arabs to Cuba. nt

[Pototan]

14. But the Philippines will accept...

...their citizens back. The Philippines is a free and safe place to live (I retired here).

If Filipinos are willing to return to their country, why the fuck would they be on a bus headed to an airport to be transferred to Libya? That's why everyone deserves due process.

Filipinos, for the most part, do not cross the Southern Border. The undocumented Filipinos fly here and overstay their visas and continue to work "off the books".

They, by in large, pose no danger, but if they can't gain legal residence in the US they are willing to return home.

[Gore1FL]

16. They don't want to send them home.

They want to send them somewhere where U.S. laws are t followed. Cruelty is the point. Skirting laws and civil rights is the point.

As I said, it’s the same reason we shipped people to Cuba after 9-11.

[Pototan]

18. By doing so, Trump

is creating another enemy from a very good ally.

The article says that.

[Gore1FL]

23. Yep. He's a chaos agent creating future terrorists seeking revenge fror what he has done. nt

[krkaufman]

7. Same reason for family separation last time

Terrorism. Performative cruelty as an object lesson to anyone who might consider immigrating to the US.

[gulliver]

21. Yep

And pretty sure I've seen Trump basically say this out loud. The message is "Try to migrate to the U.S. illegally and we just might make an oopsie in where you end up if we catch you."

It has to be admitted that it's an extremely effective message. We Dems simply have not learned yet that people aren't all sweety pies and good intentions. It dramatically and ironically undermines our credibility and our ability to do good for people.

[Joinfortmill]

8. To torture them

[Swede]

9. I hope Trump gets his just reward for being an evil piece of shit.

nt

[ReRe]

10. Cruelty

Remember, if Trump had his way, they would be shot dead in the streets.

[Warpy]

11. Because all brown people are alike so it doesn't matter where you dump them?

That's all I got and I'll bet that bunch is just that callous.

[struggle4progress]

12. rump would do it because he is a big ass?

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Human trafficking? Maybe Libya is planning to keep them as cheap labor?

[spanone]

17. Because he's an irrational asshole.

[David__77]

19. The Filipino leaders can and should recognize it makes no sense to consider the US a trustworthy partner.

[Raine1967]

20. To feed the slave trade in Libya. nt

[flamingdem]

22. Cheap labor and kickbacks