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Aussie Jo's avatar

It is disgusting the way these people are being treated

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SUE Speaks's avatar

"My government has wrapped me into pure evil." You are telling the part of the story hardly any journalist deals with, for Trump not just being a dictator but for the cruelty he inflicts. Even if the 90% had criminal records, what are we doing shaving heads, putting everyone in chains, roughing them up in bent-over positions marching them to what you pointed out would be death should anything happen to bring down the plane, only for them to be incarcerated in a forced labor for-life prison -- for what?

We don't have a criminal justice system like Les Miserables, where stealing a loaf of bread ruins a life. Here's a video that made me sick: "Deported members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua arrive in El Salvador": https://youtu.be/3o-PI8S9BbA?si=8jotGi5VrsyTRRrF

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Joyce Wycoff's avatar

OMG … this video is horrifying. https://youtu.be/3o-PI8S9BbA?si=8jotGi5VrsyTRRrF

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SUE Speaks's avatar

Isn’t it something that the reporters talk about the legality of doing this to people and not the horror of it?

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Joyce Wycoff's avatar

I think we're still in shock that this could be happening. It is gut-wrenching to realize that this could be happening here. We have some awful things in our past, but it's been awhile. This is happening NOW and HERE ...

Hope you're coping as well as possible. I appreciate all you're doing.

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SUE Speaks's avatar

I keep having this gut feeling that as atrocities arise, so does our activation, where the universe is giving us the fodder for the redo of our basics we need for our salvation which we never would have tackled without Trump.

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Anita Perez Ferguson's avatar

It is too shameful & tragic to bear. Yes, we are all accountable, and ironically, we are creating a generation of enemies from those who once saw us as a haven.

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Amazon Anne's avatar

This administration does everything for one of three reasons: Grift, Revenge or Cruelty. This falls firmly into the third category.

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Joyce Wycoff's avatar

Thank you … this just gets crazier.

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