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The Trump administration has begun flying undocumented immigrants from the US to a military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday.

Leavitt told Fox Business Network that at least two deportation flights were “under way”, but gave no further details.

Her comments, however, appeared to confirm reporting by the Wall Street Journal, citing an anonymous official with knowledge of the operation, that about a dozen immigrants were onboard one flight from Fort Bliss, Texas. The newspaper said an additional flight had departed on Monday.

CNN later reported one of the flights had “about nine or 10” people onboard who were detained in the US without valid immigration documents.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

To my fellow Americans:

You may think you are above this and since you voted you are guilt free but today, and every other day since the election, you are MAGA and no one watching from the outside will take the time to ask who you voted for.

If you think you are powerless you're wrong, your power just isn't concentrated into a swimming pool of $ signs. You can do more then vote, you can elevate your brother. Everyday, you can elevate someone you know who will fight for your cause. At the grocery, you can let them in line in front of you, on the highway you can let them pass, in the town hall you can let them speak, every day you have the power to lift up those around you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

ive been seeing some supposed marxists spreading a narrative that the deportations havent actually increased with trump, that he's just been advertising what was already going on in previous governments, to please his supporters.

Is this thing of sending immigrants to guantanamo a new thing? are the deportations worse than before? is the narrative i mentioned a big distortion of reality?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Guantanamo is new ripple as far as the broader public is aware.

Deportation hard numbers don't fluctuate much from admin to admin.

The process in how they're deported was handled a lot differently under Trump than previous. More saber rattling and human rights concerns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 45 minutes ago

it’s definitely increasing under trump already….
but go ahead and cite your claims.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yesterday, inspired by the news about mass depaorations, i watched a documentary on the Final Solution.

Among a lot of interesting things, one thing stood out to me: The original Nazis were afraid that the german people would not only reject genocide, but also reject the idea of jews (aka. their neighbors) being sent to brutal labor camps.
So they produced propaganda movies depicting the city Theresienstadt as a spa town. And then told the public that the jews would be sent there to be protected from the increasingly antisemitic public.

To lull victims into a false sense of security, the SS advertised Theresienstadt as a "spa town" where Jews could retire, and encouraged them to sign fraudulent home purchase contracts, pay "deposits" for rent and board, and surrender life insurance policies and other assets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_Ghetto

Nowadays, you can just tell the american people:

Hey, we are gonna send your neighbors to a torture camp. Great camp. Lovely camp. Most brutal camp of the world.

And they are like: Yessss, finally a solution to the migrant question.

I can also recommend Life Under Adolf Hitler: The First Years Of Nazi Germany.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

I feel like a lot of blunders hinge on underestimating how racist the average person is.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I am almost done migrating away from all US businesses as a result of this. I am even drinking freeway cola 😅

I work in IT as a freelance DevOps/Cloud engineer and am advising all my clients to migrate away from AWS etc.

Even sold most of S&P 500 and reinvested into an all-world ex-US ETF.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Thank you for your service

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Heyy !

Just curious what you recommend your clients now ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

This is a good start:

https://european-alternatives.eu/

Mostly moving to hetzner. It's a bit rough around the edges but works.

One big thing missing is there is no good and affordable WAF. Myra is good but costs at least 10k/month.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Has the Orange Turd installed the ovens yet?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

They'll do when they realize that's the only way to fit 30,000 immigrants into a torture camp that can hold < 1000 inmates.

By May 2003, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had grown into a larger and more permanent facility that housed over 680 prisoners, the vast majority without formal charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

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