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Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE (theintercept.com)

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The U.S. is in talks with 19 nations, including Libya, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Moldova, to accept deportees from other countries.
Nick Turse, Jonah Valdez
May 15 2025, 11:03 a.m.

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[–] NewOldGuard@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

Racist capitalist-imperialists do a racist capitalist imperialist thing

See this is just like communists and their gulags!

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

And anyone else, because nobody's fucking stopping him.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Wake up, liberals. New Gulag Archipelago just dropped.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why doesn’t he want these detention centers in the US?

I’m guessing it’s cheaper if he just sends some money to these countries, than to keep them in the US?

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well historically when the US has imprisoned people outside of the US they've generally wanted to work around some rule that says they can't mistreat prisoners in some way. Like Gitmo and "enhanced interrogation techniques".