Passport to nowhere: Team Trump’s new deportation game show
You know when you’re a kid and your mom tells you to clean your room, so you just shove everything under the bed and pray that she doesn’t look?
That’s basically the Trump administration’s immigration strategy, only instead of a bedroom, the mess is getting punted to countries like Ukraine, Libya, and El Salvador.
“We are working with other countries to say, ‘We want to send you some of the most despicable human beings to your countries. Will you do that as a favor to us?’” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, per NBC News. “And the further away the better, so they can’t come back across the border.” It’s like a group chat where America just keeps forwarding spam to other nations.
And hey, if you’re really trying to make sure someone doesn’t come back – not to America or anywhere else, for that matter – why not just send them to Ukraine? One day you’re watching reruns of ‘Friends’ in the Bronx, the next you’re personally starring in a Slavic war documentary without subtitles.
Apparently, some Trump officials thought this was a real banger of a plan. If Ukraine’s military recruiters were getting tired of kidnapping guys off park benches, surely they’d appreciate the gift of some unwitting ‘pre-owned’ conscripts. The Washington Post recently revealed that in late January, shortly after Trump took office, the US asked Ukraine to “accept an unspecified number of US deportees who are citizens of other countries.”
Ukraine, shockingly, wasn’t super into........
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