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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case has me fucked up. (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 days ago by SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I don't even know what to really say about it. Truth be told I was kind of numb when the first migrants where shipped off to CECOT and GITMO, which is bad on my part, maybe it was a coping mechanism idk. But this guy's harrowing case, the case of all these migrants that did nothing wrong outside of crossing a stupid line in the sand for the hopes of finding a better life, has me despairing even harder than usual. I just keep thinking about this all day and I feel guilty that my stupid first world white ass is free and allowed to partake in the empire's treats while these people are sent off to concentration camps, probably to die.

I know this should radicalize me even further and strengthen my resolve to be a better leftist but I just catch myself like slipping into nihilism that it's all futile and the bad guys have won.

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 74 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And his is the most public case. How do we know there aren't several more Kilmars in El Slavador now?

Seeing how this is all being covered is driving me insane. Just today I overheard a report that ICE arrest x amount of "very dangerous" illegal immigrants uncritically. How do I know they aren't just making all this shit up? How do I know that they aren't just a small percentage of the possibly thousands more innocent people that are being deported not just to El Salvador's mega prison, but to countries that they've never been to?

And what enrages me even more are the people that I know that could just as easily be swept away in this xenophobic campaign just because they look like the "illegals" that they say they are glad are being taken away. Like what the fuck is it going to take for people to wake up?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 59 points 5 days ago

Seeing how this is all being covered is driving me insane. Just today I overheard a report that ICE arrest x amount of "very dangerous" illegal immigrants uncritically. How do I know they aren't just making all this shit up? How do I know that they aren't just a small percentage of the possibly thousands more innocent people that are being deported not just to El Salvador's mega prison, but to countries that they've never been to?

Seeing as the undercover cop who said Garcia is ms-13 literally lied and was a known liar who got fired for lying, all the time, I can see them just making up shit whole cloth.

[–] mdd@lemm.ee 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

According to 60 minutes most of the people deported had done nothing to deserve this treatment.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

There are very few things in this life that deserve that treatment