• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    It’s impressive how much of the recent deportation scheme leans on the cooperation of one tin-pot state.

    There aren’t that many other places with concentration camps conveninently located and leadership ready to deal. It’s unlikely they’d build them domestically, it would take time, cost a fortune, and not achieve the explicit “we removed the evil foreigners” goal.

    It would be interesting to see what happened if someone said “we’ll pay you more than what America is paying to close the door.” Would he have to just knock on every presidential palace in the hemisphere looking for a new partner? Try to scale Guantanamo 100x overnight?

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      2 days ago

      It may even become a self filling cycle, though I don’t know if they have even thought this far ahead.

      1: Send legal Americans to Salvador prisons

      2: Said Americans attempt to return

      3: “Look at our border crisis!”

      4: Fool idiots into thinking that there is now a border crisis, even though it’s previously legal Americans in every sense of the word.

      5: Blame “liberals”

      6: Rinse repeat

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      3 days ago

      It’s easier if you’re not ideologically consistent, maybe we sell their labor to North Korea for some peace. But if there were ideological consistency, it would be to trade these poor souls on the block chain.