The Trump administration’s first flight deporting Brazilians involved aborted takeoffs, sweltering heat, emergency exits and shackled deportees on a wing.
  • @dhorkEnglish
    11•1 hour ago

    Read this one, guys, it’s important, paywall be damned. Send it to your representatives in Congress (particularly if they are a Republican), and ask them how they can possibly condone treating humans like this. They may reject as “Fake News” (i.e. facts they don’t like), but please do it anyway.

    This should not be what we are.

    • Diplomjodler
      5•1 hour ago

      The cruelty is the point and the system works exactly as designed. This is what the people who voted for Trump want. Appealing to their conscience is entirely futile.

      • @ieatpwns
        4•51 minutes ago

        So we should harass the people who harass the immigrants. Not roll over and point out that thats how it’s designed. Complacency is a tool they’re trying to exploit

      • Snot FlickermanEnglish
        3•50 minutes ago

        Beyond that, liberals just can’t face these kind of things. They basically want to ignore the worst aspects of this system and pretend that they’re not a big deal or the cruelty hasn’t always been the point.

        But “the cruelty is the point” is a hard line of US thought and has been since I was a child.

        I grew up when “pre-existing conditions” were still a thing. The cruelty has always been the point.

        More folks need to wake up and stop seeing this an aberration and start seeing the last 80 years as the aberration.

        We’re simply returning to America’s original “fuck you, got mine” standard.