fossilesque@mander.xyz to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoWhite House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizenswww.huffpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up180cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up180external-linkWhite House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizenswww.huffpost.comfossilesque@mander.xyz to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square21fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squareClassIsOver [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoI worry that “deportation” is more solidly within the Overton window than “indefinitely detained”. “Deportation” implies that someone is free to live anywhere else. “Indefinitely detained” implies that that person is sitting in a cell somewhere.
minus-squareOgdenTO [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoNew El Salvadoran Guantanamo
minus-squareCollatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoPeople are free to live in an area that was completely coincidentally enclosed (and surrounded with private property, where they are not allowed to trespass).
I worry that “deportation” is more solidly within the Overton window than “indefinitely detained”.
“Deportation” implies that someone is free to live anywhere else. “Indefinitely detained” implies that that person is sitting in a cell somewhere.
New El Salvadoran Guantanamo
People are free to live in an area that was completely coincidentally enclosed (and surrounded with private property, where they are not allowed to trespass).