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> It's also way the fuck off base to call this a concentration camp for undesirables with all the insinuations of Nazism that come with that.

Tell me, how many other governments can you list that planned to deport large numbers of people living in their country out to a special island they controlled in order to take advantage of its extraterritorial legal limbo separating it from the source country?

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

If I had a nickel every time that happened, I'd have two nickels, but it's weird that it's happened twice.




Not defending it… but Australia has done this for decades.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution

Most famously on Nauru https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Regional_Processing_Ce...


and it is absolutely fucked that we do it


Comparing this to the Madagascar plan and the core aims of the regime behind it is even more the fuck off base than the original insinuation of the current plans for Gitmo being akin to a concentration camp for undesirables.

Truly, at least use some basic bloody comparative reasoning to formulate arguments.


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> they broke the law crossing the border illegally

The majority here crossed legally and overstayed their visa. That's just basic table-stakes knowledge for this issue, please remember it. Bonus points if you know that overstaying is a civil infraction like a parking ticket, below the level of a misdemeanor.

> these initial rounds of deportations are prioritizing illegal aliens with violent criminal records.

That's what the professional liar says, but why would you trust him on that?

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

> These people are factually the worst of the worst.

How the hell can you "factually" know that when the Trump administration still won't even explain what criteria they are using!? (Even assuming they'll be making any honest effort at all.)




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