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[–] 6 points 1 week ago

Don't stop there, call their deportation of illegal immigrants to unrelated African countries for what it is - slave trade. Slavery was never outlawed, it was just tucked into the prison and detainment system and called prison labor.

https://sentientmedia.org/people-in-ice-detention-forced-to-work/

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-law-journal/in-print/volume-34-number-3-spring-2020/ending-forced-labor-in-ice-detention-centers-a-new-approach/

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-paying-detainee-workers-1-dollar-per-day-under-scrutiny-10996243

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/latin-american-migrants-deported-liberia/

Moving slaves across international borders does what it has always done: it's a way to hide, muddle, and ignore any remaining rights and available legal recourse they still had. Some remain detained in now completely foreign countries, cementing their slave status, others remain "free", a freedom with an implied economic surcharge.

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