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Germany 1933-45. Right out of the book.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

It's impressive how much of the recent deportation scheme leans on the cooperation of one tin-pot state.

There aren't that many other places with concentration camps conveninently located and leadership ready to deal. It's unlikely they'd build them domestically, it would take time, cost a fortune, and not achieve the explicit "we removed the evil foreigners" goal.

It would be interesting to see what happened if someone said "we'll pay you more than what America is paying to close the door." Would he have to just knock on every presidential palace in the hemisphere looking for a new partner? Try to scale Guantanamo 100x overnight?

Trump says that the future of a man resident in the US, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is not up to the US.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/these-barbarians-are-now-in-the-sole-custody-of-el-salvador-trump-official-insists-dad-deported-in-error-is-alive-and-secure-but-potus-says-his-future-not-up-to-us/

Trump also says that the future of Greenland is not up to Greenland but up to US.

What the fuck -- how can the US demand an actual country from a country and not a resident from a country ?

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this “if it’s legal.” [...] Stephen Yale-Loehr, a retired immigration law professor at Cornell University, tells Rolling Stone he worries Trump could try to deport citizens anyway, court precedent be damned, given how the administration seems to be “attacking on all fronts and worrying later whether their actions are legal. So unfortunately, it would not surprise me if we saw at least one plane load of incarcerated U.S. citizens being shipped off to El Salvador.”

Oh, at least one

“It’s not like we would send everybody there — but depending on the case, it can be an option,” says one of the people familiar with the matter,

Riiiiight. That's what they said about the deportations, that it would only be the worst, most violent criminals taken into custody and returned home. Instead they're snatching people off the streets and out of their homes, throwing them into vans, moving them around the country so their families, friends and lawyers can't find them, and sending into a death camp that's not under control of US law, without due process and no possibility of return.

Who could've seen this coming?

El Salvador shouldn't take immigrants from a banana republic

The inevitable progression of insane orange logic.

If there was an honest to God legal way they'd already have figured it out along with everything else in Project 2025, long before coming into office.

They're trying to find out a better loophole than the last one, which blew up in their face. And trying to find ways to remove the people in the way of said loopholes.