The Trump administration has begun flying undocumented immigrants from the US to a military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday.
Leavitt told Fox Business Network that at least two deportation flights were “under way”, but gave no further details.
Her comments, however, appeared to confirm reporting by the Wall Street Journal, citing an anonymous official with knowledge of the operation, that about a dozen immigrants were onboard one flight from Fort Bliss, Texas. The newspaper said an additional flight had departed on Monday.
CNN later reported one of the flights had “about nine or 10” people onboard who were detained in the US without valid immigration documents.
It’s a fair question. Got nothing better than to deflect with another question?
OP is asking for a solution. I ain’t got it. Do you? I’m listening, really I am.
Suppose it doesn’t matter what we think as this administration will do whatever the fuck they please, but it’s at least a fair intellectual exercise.
Asking for a solution to the question of what to do with a type of person. That’s the reason the Nazis built concentration camps too.
Turns out you don’t actually need to imprison people in extrajudicial torture camps, you can just treat them with a shred of human decency instead.
Like we’ve been dealing with immigrants for centuries, practically every nation has, we don’t need a ‘final solution’, we can process them individually and find solutions dynamically based on the needs and situation of the individual. Sometimes that means deportation, sometimes it means granting asylum, and sometimes it means working with our allies to find a suitable destination. Imprisoning them in Guantanamo bay is not a solution, it’s a pretense for extermination.
It’s such a fair question that literally at no other time in America’s history did a president feel the need to use an extrajudicial torture prison as a deportation zone. WhAt CoUlD pOSsiBlY bE tHe AlTeRnAtIvE?! Idiot.