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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago

This is a direct violation of rights under the US Constitution. If they can detain and send non citizens abroad with no due process then there is no functional block to them doing it to citizens. All the same reasoning applies because the US Constitution gives everyone in the US rights. The only thing protecting citizens right now is the lack of a law directing their deportation and the willingness of ICE to check documents.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I was curious, so I tried to find the article. Here is an excerpt from NPR that I found first:

Panama sends 97 U.S. deportees to migrant camp after they refused to be repatriated
PANAMA CITY — Panama transferred about one-third of the deportees from various nations it had received from the United States to a camp in its Darien province Wednesday, an area that became the main thoroughfare for migrants traveling from South America to the U.S. border in recent years, security officials said late Wednesday.
The migrants sent to Darien had refused to voluntarily be repatriated to their countries and will be held there until third countries can be found to take them, said a Panamanian official familiar with the situation who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the US sent the deportees to Panama, and all of this is happening at their governments discretion. Obviously they are in this situation because of the US, which I am not happy about, but it doesn't seem to follow that the Trump regime is sending people to concentration camps based on this event.

Edit: Someone else linked the original article, which has more details.

Context, the deportees aren't even all from Central / South America. At least one mentioned was Iranian. So it seems the US is just sending people to Panama who didn't even necessarily originate from there, so that the US doesn't have to deal with them anymore. Seems disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Panama is accepting planes with random people because of US threats to its sovereignty (canal). While it could absorb 50 or so new Panamanian "tourists" who might well migrate north again, making it not Panama problem, it is sure that they expect to receive more under condition of "making them stay"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Someone keep an eye on BASF here in Germany. I hope no packages leave the plant for panama....

Disgusting fucks.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is there ink to the actual article I can read?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Thank you. I’ll give it a read.

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