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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/33910062

The Trump administration apologized in court for a “mistake” in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student who was detained trying to fly home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, but still argued the error should not affect her case.

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 158 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

... but still argued the error should not affect her case.

The "error" is the fucking case.

[–] homes@piefed.world 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

“Yes, but you know, don’t worry about that”

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 58 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm fully expecting this community to ban news from USA in future cause that country has gone batshit crazy.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

Australia does this, we're just the red heasded step.child and get zero international attnetion and moat Australian are fasciat and cool with all this.

This was an Aussie famous one sone years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Rau

Cornelia Rau is a German and Australian citizen who was unlawfully detained for a period of ten months in 2004 and 2005 as part of the Australian Government's mandatory detention program.

Her detention became the subject of a government inquiry which was later expanded to investigate over 200 other cases of suspected unlawful detention by the Australian government's Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA).

She disappeared from Manly Hospital on 17 March 2004, and, in February 2005, it was revealed that she had been unlawfully detained at Brisbane Women's Correctional Centre, a prison, and later at Baxter Detention Centre, after being classified as a suspected illegal immigrant or non-citizen by the Immigration Department when she refused to reveal her true identity.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 46 points 3 weeks ago

In other words, moving detainees out of state as fast as possible guarantees them the ability to act with impunity, while minimizing due process for detainees. If there's no effort to STOP rapid transport of new detainees out of their original jurisdiction, they'll get away with it endlessly.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 41 points 3 weeks ago
[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

but no questioning why this happened and no changing anything structurally huh? worthless apology.

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

They would have to admit that ice arbitrarily deports people

[–] BlitzFitz@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago
[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago