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Tootbsb

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

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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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They were not deported. [View all] 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