• Caocao [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    uh huh and are they allowed to leave?

    please tell me this is a bit

    • TossedAccount [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      On paper, some liberals might tell you, the incarcerated immigrants are supposed to be "allowed" to leave if they turn back the way they came (or let the US deport them to their country of origin), but almost no one's fucking doing that after they get separated from their loved ones and their country of origin is not only absolutely not worth going back to, but often multiple border crossings away by the time they reach the US. Mexico often restricts migration across the Honduran border just as harshly as the US polices border crossings from Mexico.

      In practice, of course they're usually not actually allowed to leave. How else is the US supposed to "deter" migration than through absurd gratuitous Kafka-esque acts of cruelty indistinguishable from ethnic cleansing? Actually allow socialists and succdems like Evo, Lula, and Maduro to win and keep their democratic mandates to make their homelands even halfway worth living in?