No Stupid Questions

Because they havent been paid to do so yet. They dont work for us.

Because then most of the people being deported right now would just be deported to the US, causing a paradox and unfolding reality.

Because they are sociopaths that have zero empathy for those they deport.

it's not a law that one country can make. it's a law that requires agreement between countries via international treaty

Do you remember how prisoners were kept in Guantanamo Bay, even after they were no longer suspected of any wrongdoing, simply because there wasn't a country that would both accept them and treat them in accordance with US law? Many of those prisoners ended up nowhere near where they came from.

Some countries refuse to accept deportees. Some countries are so likely to mistreat deportees that sending them to those countries is illegal. Some countries simply don't exist anymore.

Because our laws only protect the wealthy, enforce racism, sexism and are getting worse and more genocidal in real time

I mean, ignoring the law is this administration’s whole thing, so it wouldn’t matter. Also, as we’ve seen in the UK as well as the US, many targetted individuals have never even been to “their own country”.

Because both Houses of Congress are controlled by Republicans who are 100% in support of everything the regime is doing.

I bet the general answer from congress would be "Why? It's not our country's problem where they end up once out of here"

Because Congress doesn't care about the well-being of those people. Why else would this nuance be inserted into the law?

Congress recently passed a law that allows people to be deported without due process. They're not trying to stop him...they're actively helping him.

Laws don't matter. The government is breaking laws left, right and centre.

Republicans don't care.

Because congress is complicit

Because then they wouldn't be able to deport actual US citizens who aren't the right color. I mean, if they actually respected the rule of law and weren't already breaking dozens of them.

To the current constitution-violating republican administration, none of this matters and the cruelty is part of it. That said, let's play a game:

• what is the country of someone who grew up in the US, possibly speaking only English?
• what happens if the country is inaccessible for some reason (countries occasionally collapse or close borders)
• what happens if the borders of the country change and the person's hometown (or all their family) is now in country X instead of their country of birth Y

There are probably more weird edge cases that would need to be in any law as well.

I don't know what the US congress is any more, but in other countries it's because they really really want to expel someone and the deportee's home country might say "no thanks, they're your problem".

Unfortunately for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, he is from El Salvador and in 2019, an immigration judge granted him withholding of removal status due to the danger he faced from gang violence if he returned to El Salvador.

Mainly because the law is working as intended. Also because you would have to define what "their own country" is. Think of DACA recipients, who in many cases don't even speak the language of the place where they were born, have no cultural or family connections back there, is that "their own country" if the are more USian than anything? What tablet the opposite? naturalized Citizens who very much retain the cultural and heritage connections, at times even creating separate cultural enclaves.

It is almost as if "your own country" is a made up racist concept that gets wielded by power structures to keep people at each other's throats.

There's a lot wrong with sending everyone to El Salvador or Gitmo. But quite a few people who seek asylum are trying to escape a deadly situation in their own country. (Yes if they're trying for asylum they're not supposed to be deported without due process but that's not stopping the Reich.)

Some people face persecution in their home country.

And take this scenario:

Someone from Country A travels to Country B and commits a crime, and then travels to Country C without permission.

Where should Country C deport this person to?

Because people facing deportation aren't billionaire campaign donors, so the law doesn't work for them

Back in the day, they told Lord Byron that there was a rule against people having dogs at his college.

There wasn't a rule against having a bear, so he got one of those.

Congress hasn't passed much of anything lately. They just let Trump do his executive orders. But even if they felt like doing anything at all, the GOP has control and can count on a few Dems to follow along.

Because the cruelty of it is the entire point. People still like to imagine those in power have some sort of misguided moral compass or reasoning. They do not. They are pure, unadulterated evil.