While the Trump administration has highlighted transfers of dangerous criminals to Guantanamo Bay, it is also sending nonviolent, "low-risk" migrants.
  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    44·
    6 days ago

    First “Violent” undocumented immigrants.

    Then “Non-Violent” undocumented immigrants.

    Then trans people?

    Then documented but deemed undesirable immigrants?

    Maybe citizens who have done the worst possible crimes?

    Citizens who disagree too loudly with Trump or Musk?

    When do you suppose they’ll build the next camp?

    When do you suppose they’ll get to “the gays” or “the blacks?”

    When will they get to your neighbor? Or to you?

    When will it finally be enough for those who voted to put him in power? Ever?

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
      26·
      6 days ago

      I recently saw a meeting of my school district’s board of trustees and they were essentially asking the superintendent about this and what do we do? How do we assuage fears? How do we keep kids and families safe?

      The answers pretty much boiled down to we won’t see roundups here like we’ve seen in other cities because of rules. We’re woefully unprepared for what’s to come and I frankly have no clue what to do. I’m so fucking scared.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Is this a sugar in gas tank reference, or a general sabotage ref? Does sugar actually destroy concrete?

              • Syd@lemm.ee
                2·
                5 days ago

                You could pour it on while it’s wet, but would that do much?

                • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  5 days ago

                  I’m no expert, I looked it up. It won’t destroy concrete unless crazy large amounts are dumped in the mix.

                  Yes, while mixing. Like any other chemical reaction it requires contact to make the reaction. If the contact is limited to a certain area only that area will be impacted. It’s not magic. The sugar doesn’t multiply and move itself through the median.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      2·
      4 days ago

      It always strikes me as odd when people’s reaction to seeing a news story on mainstream media is to complain about it not being reported by mainstream media.

      Also, the Democratic Party does not determine what’s on the front page of newspapers. In fact it seems a lot of media is being told handle Trump with kid gloves since the news isn’t a big money maker for the huge corporations that own them and their owners are worried about reprisals from Trump against the more profitable parts of their corporations.

      NY Times is independently owned tho, and they had a good piece on it a few days ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/gitmo-migrants-trump.html

      Didn’t make the front page because of some stuff in Gaza and below the fold they had a story explaining some of the nuances of birthright citizenship.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      27·
      6 days ago

      My partner was watching “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” at the time i encountered the first photograph of the tents they are putting up “to house thousands of immigrants”

      They have no official plan what to do with them after they are there.

      The resemblance is uncanny and impossible to ignore.

      The correct time to call them concentration camps is the exact second you learn of there existence. One cannot be mistaken. They are what they are and we all know it.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
    10·
    5 days ago

    Undocumented immigrants, this is your “Get out!” moment right here. Hate to see you leave but I hate for you to be tortured for essentially not filling paperwork.

    • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      As everything collapses here, it reminds me just how awful the conditions really are for so many people back home. They would rather stay in (or even come to) this cesspool, even with these high profile risks.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    I think the plan is simply to fill it up ASAP so they can start “temporarily” holding deportees in domestic prisons and using them for cheap labor. It doesn’t even need to stay full, it just needs to incite a “change of plans”.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    6 days ago

    Obviously he meant the people who are on “the worst” position of his list of undesirable.

    I wish i could say that ironically but its absolutely what he meant.

    Once he runs out of jews immigrants it will be the roma gender diverse.

    People like myself are quick to follow, everyone who does not comply will eventually.

  • notannpc@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago

    When you’re a racist asshole, all of the non-white people are “the worst”. I’d expect nothing less from TFG.