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DIY deportation

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FYI because the actual reasons for this feud are under-reported:
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.
Trump sent a group of deportees on a military aircraft
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
Colombia said fuck that, the plane eventually landed in Honduras, and Colombia sent another plane to pick the people up from there.
Colombia said "what the fuck dude" and Trump the a temper tantrum
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.
- Lol ffs...
- Hate to say it... Sources?
- 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.

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.
  
  You don't need to add the "devils advocate" part, we're already past 2010, we know is your own opinion.
  
  prison plane
  Military cargo planes are not prison planes lol
  
  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.
  
  https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-8/

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