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I get your sentiment and feel the same way, but that’s just adding death to the equation. I honestly think that is exactly what they want. If they detain you, you still have access to lawyers and others who are working to protect these people. If you’re dead, you can’t to any of that. You can’t defend yourself. The action alone will make you a ‘terrorist’ and therefore justify their actions.

It fucking sucks.

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You have access to lawyers???

Not a single person that I’m aware of that got shipped off to El Salvador had a fair trial. This isn’t the US you know anymore. You don’t get a trial if they don’t want you to have one.

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If they detain you, you still have access to lawyers and others who are working to protect these people.

Have you been skipping the news for weeks?

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No. There are plenty of lawyers and groups (ACLU) working to get these people to a judge. Hell, even the Supreme Court ruled that the deportations must stop to give them due process.

Are they following those orders? I don’t think so.

But to say that there aren’t people fighting for these people is just flat out, blatantly and categorically wrong.

How does Muhmud Khalil have a lawyer if what I said was wrong?

Have you been skipping the news for weeks?

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You are wrong though. The majority get shipped off no lawyers no nothing. Just gone.

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You seem to be choosing the few people who were able to get a lawyer in time… In your hypothetical, that is not guaranteed or even something I’d bet on. And you are also pointing out that they won’t obey judges orders anyways so… I’m very confused as to what argument you think you are making.

Anyone who sees anyone being kidnapped should do their civic duty to stop it. Just because it suddenly seems to be government representatives that are doing the kidnapping now does not change that. You don’t know which it is.

I do wonder how many people have already been disappeared with no cameras around and they are just “missing” according to their families who can’t/don’t want to go to the cops in case it was the cops all along.

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You wont get a chance to defend yourself when they bag you up and send you to El Salvador. You can die in the streets protecting yourself or you can die in a gulag 5000 miles away. Your choice

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access to lawyers

I don’t believe it would work out that way if you are detained and don’t already have numbers lined up. They are already skipping due process anyway…

I don’t want violence. I just want to remind people that these are illegal government kidnappings.

It. Fucking. Sucks. Indeed.

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18 points

El Salvador is a death sentence, with a load of abuse on top. Better to break some ICE and be ended, than to live out your final days in a concentration camp.

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12 points

If an ICE agent dies they can’t harm anyone else

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An absurd suggestion. ICE agents looking to disappear you are merely volunteers for America’s new Necronaut Program. Necronauts are needed for the upcoming assassination of God, and invasion of heaven.

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