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Trump imposes tariffs, sanctions on Colombia after it refuses deportation flights (www.reuters.com)

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"The U.S. cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals," Petro wrote. Petro said even though there were 15,660 Americans without legal immigration status in Colombia, he would never carry out a raid to return handcuffed Americans to the United States. "We are the opposite of the Nazis," he wrote, in a jab at Trump. Mexico also refused a request last week to let a U.S. military aircraft land with migrants.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You realize you just defended death camps for non-citizens?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How is sending them to their home countries the same as sending them to death camps??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

First of all, many countries, including Italy, are literally installing lagers in other countries (in Italy's case Albania) to "take care" of illegal migrants, so they are not easily sent back.

Second, the place they come from could well be akin to a death camp for them.

Third, rules like those can be subtly change in a minute to acquire ever more vicious features.

Fourth, as Zexks said, things could escalate once those countries serving their xenophobic policies start caring about the internal externalities of such deals.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

Most places in the world are not death camps. We live a pretty cushy life here, but even the disparity between us and most countries are equal to cushy or death camp.

On top of that, no one is completely stopping immigration. We still have an asylum law that is in effect. We're just going to be screening people claiming asylum to make sure they actually need asylum. Nowhere near most of the people coming across the boarder need asylum, and even then, Mexico is perfectly safe for most people. They don't have to come to the US. They just have to go to the nearest country not trying to kill them.

Yes, any rules can be changed, it's how we got into this illegal immigration mess to begin with.

What other countries do are up to them, but we're not responsible for the world population. If there's a genuine need for asylum in the US, cool. Otherwise, no