Since we’re using El Salvador like it’s a new Gitmo. Like yes, it would still suck for the people from El Salvador.

But at least people from other countries would go back to their home country. Presumably to be treated far better than El Salvador.

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    Because then most of the people being deported right now would just be deported to the US, causing a paradox and unfolding reality.

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    it’s not a law that one country can make. it’s a law that requires agreement between countries via international treaty

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      We could easily, and should, implement a law saying that people must be deported back to their own country. It just means fewer people would be deported.

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        it’s not a law that one country can make. it’s a law that requires agreement between countries via international treaty

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          Still not getting it.

          The US can create a law saying “you can only deport people to their home country”. And if the home country doesn’t allow that, don’t fucking deport them.

          It’s basic empathy.

          Otherwise, let’s just all deport them all to Antarctica. It would save a lot of money on logistics, if we’re willing to not give a fuck.

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    Do you remember how prisoners were kept in Guantanamo Bay, even after they were no longer suspected of any wrongdoing, simply because there wasn’t a country that would both accept them and treat them in accordance with US law? Many of those prisoners ended up nowhere near where they came from.

    Some countries refuse to accept deportees. Some countries are so likely to mistreat deportees that sending them to those countries is illegal. Some countries simply don’t exist anymore.

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      The fucking thought that Americans feel superior enough to not allow another country to take them…in this case from their extra judicial torture black site.

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          The point being that the US would see fit to refuse to return someone to a particular country all the while torturing them in the same black site.

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    Because our laws only protect the wealthy, enforce racism, sexism and are getting worse and more genocidal in real time

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    I mean, ignoring the law is this administration’s whole thing, so it wouldn’t matter. Also, as we’ve seen in the UK as well as the US, many targetted individuals have never even been to “their own country”.

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    Because both Houses of Congress are controlled by Republicans who are 100% in support of everything the regime is doing.

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    I bet the general answer from congress would be “Why? It’s not our country’s problem where they end up once out of here”

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    Because Congress doesn’t care about the well-being of those people. Why else would this nuance be inserted into the law?

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    Congress recently passed a law that allows people to be deported without due process. They’re not trying to stop him…they’re actively helping him.