Joy Reid: Deportations ‘Make America Look Like a Human Rights Violator’
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Navajo would like to deport. For those tracking, it’s not likely these are isolated incidents and exclusive NBC report out tonight found that nearly half of those detained on Sunday do not, I repeat, do not have criminal records. It’s also worth noting that despite all the televised drama, the actual number of people being deported has not yet exceeded the threshold of daily deportations under the Biden Administration. In fact, the Mexican president stressed today, what is different is the way that the Trump Administration is broadcasting, celebrating and most notably, increasingly using military planes to remove people. Make no mistake, the military facilitating immigration enforcement are the pictures they want us, and especially fox viewers to see. And they are doubling down on it. Texas governor Greg Abbott earlier today announced that his state is sending an additional 400 members of the Texas national guard to the southern border. And defense secretary and former fox TV host Pete Hegseth, thankfully seemingly quite sober on his first day on the job, said the Department of Defense will provide whatever is needed at the border. Thanks, Pete. You’re doing great. These images of people who dared to try for the American dream, only to be shipped back to their home countries, handcuffed on military planes, do absolutely nothing to reform immigration. They do show deportations that cost U.S. taxpayers a lot more than using commercial flights. And they make America look like a human rights violator. With Brazil among the first to condemn the, quote, blatant disrespect of deportees coming home in shackles. Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, is objecting to the use of military flights in a now settled dispute that showed that Trump is willing to threaten tariffs whose financial burden falls on everyday American consumers as a means to remake America in his image.
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