President Donald Trump celebrated as a plane carrying suspected members of a notorious Venezuelan gang touched down at a prison in El Salvador on Sunday.
Nothing in principal, but you’re slurping up what they’re serving. They say “criminal” and sweep up many who are certainly not what they’re advertising.
"Human rights groups fear that without due process and clear distinctions between these labels, innocent people targeted for deportation may end up in CECOT. “Trump has talked about doubling down on criminalizing irregular immigrants. So would that mean that people might end up in a terrorism facility just because they don’t have their papers in order?” said Piquer.
The Trump administration’s policy of sending deportees to the military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba seems to suggest that this is already the case. In late January, Trump signed an executive order calling for the expansion of the “migrant operations center” at Guantánamo Bay. The base, best known for housing suspected terrorists during the U.S. “War on Terror,” has held migrants stopped at sea trying to cross into the United States from Haiti and Cuba for the past two decades. Trump called for the transfer of upwards of 30,000 migrants to the detention facilities on the island.
The detention center is nearly empty after it was cleared of most deportees in the face of civil rights lawsuits on February 19. These lawsuits have so far limited the number of deportees held at the detention center - as of last count there were 17 men at Guantánamo Bay. Nevertheless, it may not remain so sparsely populated. In addition, the early results of the administration’s experiment reveal the dangers of criminalizing irregular migration status.
Of the nearly 180 deportees sent to Guantánamo last week, almost a third had not been convicted of any crime beyond crossing the border illegally. Contrary to claims made by the Department of Homeland Security of supposed gang membership, no solid evidence has been provided to substantiate this claim. In the face of pushback, a senior Homeland Security official told CNN that all deportees sent to Guantánamo were considered to have “committed a crime by entering the United States illegally."
People who advertise one thing while doing another are not out for justice, they’re selling something. When they do so at the cost of due process, they’re scared of the justice system they’re claiming to represent. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yv1gnzyvo
If you want to slurp, just say you want to buy whatever your told, at whatever cost to anyone else. That’s your decision. But you don’t get to pretend you aren’t taking liberties with the rights of others. When it comes around to whatever group you’re part of that gets labeled as “undesirable” or “criminal” or “terrorist” without due process to defend yourself, there certainly won’t be anyone fighting for you. The US war department said it best in 1947 Don’t Be A Sucker
Nothing in principal, but you’re slurping up what they’re serving. They say “criminal” and sweep up many who are certainly not what they’re advertising.
"Human rights groups fear that without due process and clear distinctions between these labels, innocent people targeted for deportation may end up in CECOT. “Trump has talked about doubling down on criminalizing irregular immigrants. So would that mean that people might end up in a terrorism facility just because they don’t have their papers in order?” said Piquer.
The Trump administration’s policy of sending deportees to the military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba seems to suggest that this is already the case. In late January, Trump signed an executive order calling for the expansion of the “migrant operations center” at Guantánamo Bay. The base, best known for housing suspected terrorists during the U.S. “War on Terror,” has held migrants stopped at sea trying to cross into the United States from Haiti and Cuba for the past two decades. Trump called for the transfer of upwards of 30,000 migrants to the detention facilities on the island.
The detention center is nearly empty after it was cleared of most deportees in the face of civil rights lawsuits on February 19. These lawsuits have so far limited the number of deportees held at the detention center - as of last count there were 17 men at Guantánamo Bay. Nevertheless, it may not remain so sparsely populated. In addition, the early results of the administration’s experiment reveal the dangers of criminalizing irregular migration status.
Of the nearly 180 deportees sent to Guantánamo last week, almost a third had not been convicted of any crime beyond crossing the border illegally. Contrary to claims made by the Department of Homeland Security of supposed gang membership, no solid evidence has been provided to substantiate this claim. In the face of pushback, a senior Homeland Security official told CNN that all deportees sent to Guantánamo were considered to have “committed a crime by entering the United States illegally."
https://nacla.org/us-war-migrants-gets-help-el-salvador
People who advertise one thing while doing another are not out for justice, they’re selling something. When they do so at the cost of due process, they’re scared of the justice system they’re claiming to represent. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yv1gnzyvo
If you want to slurp, just say you want to buy whatever your told, at whatever cost to anyone else. That’s your decision. But you don’t get to pretend you aren’t taking liberties with the rights of others. When it comes around to whatever group you’re part of that gets labeled as “undesirable” or “criminal” or “terrorist” without due process to defend yourself, there certainly won’t be anyone fighting for you. The US war department said it best in 1947 Don’t Be A Sucker