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Tootbsb

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

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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.

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.
— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) 2025-04-07T23:21:35.937Z

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They were not deported. [View all] Tootbsb Apr 2025 OP

Thank you................. Lovie777 Apr 2025 #1

Freedom elliesmandt Apr 2025 #32

YES! They were kidnapped NOT arrested, removed NOT deported! Maru Kitteh Apr 2025 #43

Krasnov is a monster. GoodRaisin Apr 2025 #2

AND there was NO due process involved. They were kidnapped and immediately shipped off to Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #3

I was thinking renditioned, but not a time for a semantic argument... Wounded Bear Apr 2025 #4

deport - To expel from a country. JoseBalow Apr 2025 #5

I guess words are fungible on DU. maxsolomon Apr 2025 #8

Usually people who are deported out of a country are not sold to torture prisons in another country. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #9

Eh, Hornedfrog2000 Apr 2025 #10

Nope Cirsium Apr 2025 #17

Is there no more context? paleotn Apr 2025 #25

Exile - the expulsion or banishment of a person from their land Torchlight Apr 2025 #26

That does seem quite accurate JoseBalow Apr 2025 #34

Yes deport is a verb ToxMarz Apr 2025 #28

The correct legal term might be "extraordinary rendition" many a good man Apr 2025 #42

More Malice in Blunderland. GreenWave Apr 2025 #6

Just like the Red Queen! Mossfern Apr 2025 #12

"Due process" is not a part of a Bill of Rights that consists only of a Second Amendment. marble falls Apr 2025 #7

Spaniards & South Americans know exactly what to call these people: Desaparecidos Hekate Apr 2025 #11

Los Desaparecidos lastlib Apr 2025 #22

Human trafficking. pandr32 Apr 2025 #13

Bingo, human trafficking LittleGirl Apr 2025 #14

The American Gulag Archipelago. n/t lastlib Apr 2025 #23

This is sickening! Dehumanizing people in an effort Dark n Stormy Knight Apr 2025 #35

YES, if recieved money, it's bluestarone Apr 2025 #27

I don't think kidnapping is appropriate ClarencesBrother Apr 2025 #15

That's what I was thinking, too. Slave marketing. Horrendous! wordstroken Apr 2025 #16

I'm sure several/most of the stolen people are dead by now. GoYouPackersGo Apr 2025 #18

They were sold Figarosmom Apr 2025 #19

Truth. SSJVegeta Apr 2025 #20

6 million a year was agreed to for EACH prisoner. Our taxes are paying for this. And the illegality denying Evolve Dammit Apr 2025 #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 2025 #38

that was not the figure I heard quoted but I'll take your word for it. Evolve Dammit Apr 2025 #47

They were kidnapped and sold into slavery. Clouds Passing Apr 2025 #24

How about Disappeared or Stolen or Removed Zackzzzz Apr 2025 #29

Shanghai'd. But not to Shanghai. C_U_L8R Apr 2025 #30

Given the criminal nature of the government of El Salvador moniss Apr 2025 #31

Other countries should charge them with kacekwl Apr 2025 #33

Disappeared enid602 Apr 2025 #36

we can bandy et tu Apr 2025 #37

These types have waited us into this situation. Tootbsb Apr 2025 #46

It's simple: ReRe Apr 2025 #39

They were human trafficked. intheflow Apr 2025 #40

Hear Hear! OldBaldy1701E Apr 2025 #41

you could even say they were sold into slavery LymphocyteLover Apr 2025 #44

..outsourced Auschwitz!! thomski64 Apr 2025 #45