The Trump administration said it deported a group of eight men convicted of serious crimes in the United States to the conflict-ridden African country of South Sudan, following a weeks-long legal saga that had kept the deportees in a military base in Djibouti for weeks.

Assistant Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the deportation flight carrying the deportees landed in South Sudan just before midnight EST on Friday. A photo provided by the department showed the deportees, with their hands and feet shackled, sitting inside an aircraft, guarded by U.S. service members.

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[–] 73 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Stop calling it fucking deportations. This is remanding people to gulags in other countries they are not from and as best as we know, have to way to ger out of or to be returned to the countries they came from. They have sentenced these people to death half way around the world because the US has become a fucking monster

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I hate living in a reality where a routine traffic stop could result in someone being disappeared and tortured while being completely legal.

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  • Martin Neimöller is rolling in his grave.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    This is straight up human trafficking and murder. No mincing words about it; the monsters in this hellhole trafficked people in under horrific conditions less than 2.5 centuries ago. Now they’re exporting people to be enslaved, tortured, and extrajudicially executed.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    So the American government is literally a slave Trader now. Fun

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Good. If you don't want to say where your home is, that's not a cheat code to not get deported. You'll get deported anyways, to a place that's much worse.

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Sending people to places they've never been is not "deportation." It's trafficking.

    It's the wrong fucking continent.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    i dunno, sending a bunch of people from somewhere else to a warzone seems kinda like a death sentence. It also seems like the premise of a reality show so this whole thing makes sense when viewed through the lens of a braindead idiot.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    We are ruled by fascists. Legacy media doesn't seem to see it, or they are paid not to.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's not deported but transported or sentenced. Stop the sane washing of this administration's proclamations and crimes

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