- cross-posted to:
- trump_watch@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- trump_watch@lemmy.world
Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.
Federal law states that the United States shall not “expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” This law implements a treaty, known as the Convention Against Torture, which the United States ratified more than three decades ago.
Federal regulations, moreover, provide that even after an immigration judge has determined that a noncitizen may be deported to another country, that judge’s order “shall not be executed in circumstances that would violate Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.” And those regulations also establish a process that immigrants can use to raise concerns with an immigration judge that they may be tortured if sent to a specific country.
The Trump administration, however, claims it has discovered a loophole that renders all of these legal protections worthless, and is now asking the Supreme Court to explicitly give it the authority to make use of that loophole in order to enact its immigration policies.
What a joke. Most can’t even be bothered to skip work.
Work is your entire livelihood in this country for most people. They have workers by the neck, daring you to step out of line so they can leave you to die on the streets. I don’t blame people for attempting to survive.
And ignoring your neighbors as well. As if those with extra couldn’t help those without so everyone can come together and fight your dictator. That’s the only way any of this works and history has shown by far, bullets are the best and most often only way to depose a fascist. But you would have to help people you don’t know and that’s awfully socialist and goes against everything you have ever been told by your government and oligarchs.
Organization would solve many of these problems but if you never go out and meet like minded people with the same goals how do you organize?
There aren’t many with extra at this point. The worker squeeze is at the max.
Then there isn’t a reason to continue living like that and the only way to change it is to force it or die in a camp. I am Canadian. I am also disabled. My family has nothing. I’d haul my cripple ass out there. I am now and my situation is vastly different then yours. Can I afford it, fuck no. When you have nothing already there are no more excuses.