FYI because the actual reasons for this feud are under-reported:
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Colombia has been accepting deported immigrants for years without complaint. They were being sent by charter or commercial aircraft, and the Colombia government was notified ahead of time that they were coming.
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Trump sent a group of deportees on a military aircraft
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Trump did not notify Colombia that this aircraft was coming, and as such tried to lands a military aircraft in a sovereign state with no warning
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Colombia said fuck that, the plane eventually landed in Honduras, and Colombia sent another plane to pick the people up from there.
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Colombia said “what the fuck dude” and Trump the a temper tantrum
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Side note, every single one of those deportees was arrested by the Biden admin, so it’s not like this is even Trump delivering on his campaign promises. He’s just doing a worse job at what Biden was already doing.
Trump referred to this flight not as “deportation” but “repatriation”. This is important because deportation can only be conducted through the judicial branch: Deportation is a sentence pursuant to a conviction.
“Repatriation” is what we call it when we return a POW to their nation of origin.
He is treating immigrants as enemy combatants. Enemy combatants are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the united states, which is required for birthright citizenship.
Trump sent a group of deportees on a military aircraft
The military is prohibited from engaging in law enforcement under the Posse Comitatus Act. For the military to be involved, this cannot be considered a law enforcement action.
He’s just doing a worse job at what Biden was already doing.
This is not Trump doing a worse job. This is Trump’s lawyers saying he needs to do this if he wants to kill birthright citizenship.
Hate to say it… Sources?
- Lol ffs…
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This is the most frustrating and stupid news cycle - the US government has been sending folks back to Colombia via commercial flights since like 2020. The Biden administration sent 124 flights last year. The only difference is that the Trump team wanted to make a big show of sending people in chains on a military flight, and the Colombian government wanted their citizens to be treated like human beings. Our media is shamefully inadequate to this moment.
Devils advocate: these people broke the law, are the optics of them being transported in a “prison plane” really out of line with what’s happened?
Deportation is not prison, and most of the world doesn’t share the US’ hardon for humiliating criminals - but only if they are poor and not the government approved genetic background.
Deportation is not prison
Devils Advocate: What they did was illegal though. Had they been transported to a cell in a prison van would that have been inappropriate?
This devil’s advocate position your holding is very akin to fascists “just asking questions”.
You seem to equate any lawbreaking as requiring handcuffs and imprisonment. So by your “devil’s advocate” stand it seems like you think leaving your Christmas lights up deserves handcuffs and imprisonment. Do you agree?
What situation do you think handcuffs should or should not be used when dealing with someone breaking the law?
This devil’s advocate position your holding is very akin to fascists “just asking questions”.
If someone were doing that just to be obtuse then I wouldn’t talk to them either. If someone were talking like that because they genuinely believed that and were going to discuss things in a measured reasonable way then that’s the kind of discussion I think is essential.
You seem to equate any lawbreaking as requiring handcuffs and imprisonment.
I very much didn’t say this at all. I don’t think it’s necessary for you to exaggerate to make your point.
What situation do you think handcuffs should or should not be used when dealing with someone breaking the law?
Devils Advocate: when they pose a reasonable risk to the public (not applicable in this case) or have already demonstrated a willingness to evade authorities when breaking the law (applicable). Committing fraud: no cuffs. Most low level drug offences: no cuffs. Previously escaped prison: cuffs. Evaded authorities to trespass or enter illegally: cuffs.
You assume that they are violent criminals and not just people who overstayed visas or are victims of a very slow refugee system.
Trump has so many felonies, so many that are clear red flags showing that he shouldn’t be in charge of anything, and he is now the president of the United States. These people do not deserve the indignity of being sent home in chains on an unannounced military aircraft while that stupid fuck gets to prance around without any consequences at all.
There’s being a devil’s advocate and there’s being stupid and cruel for the sake of it. You actually don’t need to “balance light and dark”.
Being a devils advocate is not enlightened centrism or bringing ‘balance’. It’s having a debate for the sake of having a debate. I don’t hold those views, hence why they’re so marked. Otherwise political discussion drains away as everyone sits in their respective silos. Im inviting people (if they want) to articulate their view beyond their emotional reaction.
You’re really not doing that and I do not have the time or energy to explain to it to you. Congrats on your opportunity to think on that, I wish you much luck.
Thanks.
If anyone else wants to explain I’m all ears
Sidenote: fuck the devil and fuck his advocates
And fuck this guy!
You don’t need to add the “devils advocate” part, we’re already past 2010, we know is your own opinion.
Lol. See… this is why it’s necessary to add it. I’m a British socialist. I don’t hold those views, I value debate for the sake of it. Else everyone sinks further into their political silos, casting things in black and white.
Optics discussion aside, I think it cost like $800k to transport them via C130. There’s no reason to use this method other than to grandstand. They’ve sent thousands of folks back to Colombia via commercial and chartered flights.
+1 convincing argument
Even IF it were a legitimate way to treat people who’d broken the law, it’s an unnecessarily expensive way of doing it
prison plane
Military cargo planes are not prison planes lol
are you sure about that. a great multitude of things which were one thing on january 19th 2025, will never be the same things again after january 20th 2025
My mistake, my phrasing could have been better.
Given that people breaking the law are routinely transported while handcuffed in non commercial police vehicles, what specifically is the issue with transporting them on something other than a civilian jet?
Look into that law a lot more. It has been treated as less than jaywalking for decades. This is not a “breaking the law” like murder or theft.
It has been treated as less than jaywalking for decades
Devils Advocate: that might be the problem, no?
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Devils Advocate: they broke the law. Had they been transported handcuffed in a prison van would that be “cruel and unusual punishment”?
