My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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  • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comEnglish
    141·
    22 hours ago

    What has happened to us was designed specifically to break our body and spirit.

    Yeah, that’s the idea. They torture you until you self deport

    But even when we decided to make the difficult decision to ask to be allowed to voluntarily leave the United States—the place we consider our country and our home—the government not only opposed it but suggested that it would appeal any judicial decisions that grant us departure.

    Wait, what.

    I thought the idea was to use the concentration camps to torture people until they voluntarily self deport. What’s going on here?

      • midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        4·
        13 hours ago

        It’s easy to blame capitalism and greed, but I think that’s an insufficient explanation. This is genocidal behavior, from the bottom rung to the top. Profit is a cherry on top; these people want power, real physical power to prey on people without consequences.

        • CubitOom@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          We can blame multiple things. But I think we have to remember that capitalism and greed has been the leading cause or excuse of this behavior for most of human history.

          Hitler became wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.

          The slave trade was extremely lucrative for the Dutch east India company.

          Most empires in history traded humans they conquered as commodities.

          This is to say, the point isnt only just cruelty.

          I think the more abstract power concept is also very much the point, but it might be harder for some people to grasp. It is hard to quantify power, but easy to quantify money. And money is traded for power in our society.