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David B's avatar

Thank you for continually showing what kind of State we are living in now. I do appreciate the legal analysis and expertise, even as I also know that nothing - absolutely nothing will be done against anyone participating in these abuses, and if anything gets to SCOTUS they will find a way to say it’s all above board.

One thing that may come out of this is this may be the trigger that makes Trump start kicking NGOs out of the US Russia-style.

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Bambi Sears's avatar

Thank you for this article, for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. Then there is also the 3rd country deportations. This makes Stalin look like Mr Roger's. May we all find the resources and strength like Papillion to escape our own Devil's Island. To them I say: We are still here you fascist bastards.

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William A. Finnegan's avatar

The renditions to CECOT and whatnot, I previously wrote about.

Patently illegal in how they executed it... potentially lawful (for immigrant detention only)...

We actually had workable agreements with Mexico, for a while, to hold people seeking asylum in the US... when they were transiting through Mexico.

But the things we're doing now? Yeah. They're unlawful renditions. They are violations of non-refoulement. Straight up.

And again, the Amnesty piece hedged its bet with the U.S. during the GWOT... it did not do so in that latest report.

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Susan Zakin's avatar

Sitting in a parking lot reading this, and it makes me want to cry.

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FINTEL's avatar

How do I look?

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