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Johnny2X2X

(23,237 posts)
8. It's frightening
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 01:00 PM
Jun 25

They are certainly deporting American Citizens right now too. There are regular Americans sitting in brutal prisons in other parts of the world right now and they have no way to get home, no way to challenge their detention, they have been charged with no crimes, they have been convicted of nothing. They face torture, rape, and death in prisons in places like Libya, Rwanda, and El Salvador and in most cases, their families don't even know where they are, or even that ICE took them. Someone's father or someone's mother just didn't come home from work one day.

That's where we are, right now! People are being disappeared. Our government is paying foreign countries to hold them in a foreign prison indefinitely. This is going to be the defining issue of this period in American history. We have allowed a government to have this power because a candidate scared enough people about immigrants. This power is being abused and it's being turned on regular people.

We are already at a point where Americans returning to their country from vacation are being detained and interrogated for posts they made about a politician. How far are we from ICE raiding the data center that houses DU's servers to start doing raids on the homes of frequent posters here?

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