• obvs@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    They are NOT deportees. They are not being deported.

    They’re being RENDITIONED.

    Deported people are sent back to their own countries where they likely have resources or the ability to live and function.

    Renditioning is intentionally putting people in places where they have no ability to communicate or to live. It’s like a death sentence for at least many of them.

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      17 hours ago

      I’m going to disagree with you with two arguments: first, authority from Merriam Webster

      Deport transitive verb 1 [Latin deportare] a : to send (a foreign-born noncitizen) out of the country by legal order : to subject to deportation b : to remove (someone or something) : DISPLACE

      2 : to behave or comport (oneself) especially in accord with a code

      Second argument is historical. During WWII, People were deported to concentration camps. They for sure didn’t call the camps their home.

  • nandeEbisu@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    That’s it? That’s like an upper middle class boomer’s retirement fund. I presume much of the compensation is going to be in diplomatic concessions.

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      12 hours ago

      The article states that:

      Eswatini agreed to take 160 deportees in exchange for $5.1m to “build its border and migration management capacity”.

      By my account, that amounts to $31.875 per deportee.

      Regardless of the sums involved, the United States are outsourcing their human rights abuses and bribing other countries to turn a blind eye by making them complicit. Eswatini and all the other countries that partake in “migration offshoring” schemes, like El Salvador, Albania and Rwanda, will likely not call out the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union for their criminal treatment of people who, by and large, desire to work and live in peace.