Trump imposes tariffs, sanctions on Colombia after it refuses deportation flights

[oceansoap@lemmy.ml]

Who were.... Legal citizens, yes? Deporting illegal migrants is not the same.

[oceansoap@lemmy.ml]

Lol, no they're not. Colombia caved within minutes

[prettyflyforafatguy@feddit.uk]

Mass deportations of legal citizens, sure

you realize that's what he's already trying to do right?

That's what ending birthright citizenship is all about. Millions of people who are currently considered to be American citizens will have that stripped from them and then they are free to be deported

[techranger@infosec.pub]

A military coup d'etat?

[someone@lemmy.ca]

I'm admittedly not a genius when it comes to foreign exchange/international currency dynamics, but unless the Yuan became the reserve currency I think it would be a positive change for most of the world.

[duamerthrax@lemmy.world]

Jews weren't "legal citizens" in Nazi Germany. What is and isn't "legal" is entirely made up.

[charapaso@lemmy.world]

Unfortunately they've backed down already: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/world/americas/colombia-us-deportation-flights.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU4.SJeu.KLeSKsinK61Z

[wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world]

Do you know that the Jewish population in Germany were citizens? And then Hitler took their citizenship away. Just like they used to have rights, until they didn't. Besides, just because something's legal, doesn't make it right. What's legal and what's not can change in the blink of an eye.

[wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world]

No. Not after all their rights and their citizenship were taken away.

See that's the thing a lot of people don't understand. Fascists often use the law and the system to LEGALLY implement all their horrific shit. Just because something is the law does not make it right. Laws can be changed, thus we shouldn't use them as an argument for what is and isn't right.

Let's just imagine for a moment that tomorrow Trump and his little friends push through some law that allows them to strip every person with Swedish ancestry (for example) of their citizenship. Suddenly they could be deported, sure. And it would all be legal. Would you think it was right?

Your government is already talking about taking away birthright citizenship. And the GOP has shown us they are perfectly happy stripping at the very least some people of some of their rights already. Are you telling me you don't think it could get any worse?

[revelrous@sopuli.xyz]

'cept that whole bit when he rips up asylum law and tries to EO away birthright citizenship?

[bradleyuffner@lemmy.world]

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

[ansiz@lemmy.world]

I wish the lunatics voters that support this would realize how expensive each of these flights are, at tax payers expense! Easily $30k per flight and Trump is aiming for thousands of these flights!

[inputzero@lemmy.world]

I think you might have misunderstood the lesson that we're taught about the Holocaust. It wasn't important who Nazi Germany gurt, it's what the Nazi's did. Regardless of who they did it to. The Nazis threw away their own humanity to achieve their goals, that is always wrong. Everything else after that is just details. That's what people are afraid of with Trump's deportation mandate, that to actually achieve it migrants will need to be treated subhuman. To deport them as quickly as Trump wants America and American's will have to throw away some more of their humanity. It's not the same as Nazi Germany in that there aren't death camps, but Trump and his allies want America to walk down that path a bit. It's wrong.

[sabinstargem@lemmy.world]

I think Lapar made a mistake. With a brief search, I found an article from 2019.

[https://www.reuters.com/article/world/china-strikes-back-at-us-with-new-tariffs-on-75-billion-in-goods-idUSKCN1VD1BG/](China strikes back with tariffs on 75 billion in goods.)

[kandoh@reddthat.com]

[kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Even before Trump, the US illegally deported lots of citizens by accident. Because practical legal protections against deportation were shit even back then.

So they don't even have to make it legal. Just impossible to practically fight illegal deportation.

A source https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Hundreds-of-citizens-end-up-in-deportation-11719324.php

[sabinstargem@lemmy.world]

Personally, I am hoping it is part of a lifecycle, and that the dawn of a new golden age will happen after Reconstruction v2.0 has thoroughly removed the poison from America's veins.

[hasturinyellow@lemmy.world]

I heard $800,000 with about 80 people per flight. Good and cheap!

[sanctus@lemmy.world]

[natakunox@lemmy.world]

Uhhhh no they didn't. Colombia got evening they wanted in return for accepting the flights.