this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
137 points (97.9% liked)

politics

24106 readers
4239 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Some 800 Europeans — including one Austrian, 100 Romanians and 170 Russians — are being considered for the transfers, according to one of the documents. That element of the plan has alarmed some U.S. diplomats, who note that most European countries are American allies that are cooperative in taking back deportees and that there’s no need to send the people to Guantanamo.

top 13 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Since February, the U.S. has held approximately 500 migrants at the Guantanamo facility, according to last week’s court filing. Sen. Gary Peters, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said last month that the use of the facility appears to cost $100,000 per day for each detainee.

During the peak of the war on terror, the U.S. held 780 people at the Guantanamo Bay facility. Pentagon officials were shocked by Trump’s order in January to house some 30,000 people there.

It physically and economically can't be done. The most over-funded military in the world didn't bother to supply the National Guard with food, water, or bedding in Los Angeles.

They're sending these people to die.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Hey guys what is $100,000 a day for 30,000 people?

Well lookie here that is $3 billion... a day!

Or over a trillion dollars a year. Grifters gonna grifffffttttt!

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

The cruelty and harm is the point of these kinds of policy

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

$50 million per day for 500 people is absolute insanity

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

It's very efficient at funneling money to contractors.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So the only purpose of this move is to burn the bridges we've spent a century building with our allies, got it.

Boy, Putin got the deal of the millennium on Trump.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

He really did. If you want to destroy a country just do what Trump and MAGA have been doing. Attack education, disrupt the economy, and watch the whole thing collapse.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No it's to set precedent.

They want to send us there they just need a tacit ok from the courts who so far have responded with " hell no, read the Constitution ".

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 points 20 hours ago

In the end, the Constitution is a piece of paper. After centuries, people got tired of having to pretend it really meant something to them.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

'Alleged' migrants, because without due process, we really don't know, do we?

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 3 points 20 hours ago

They turned the Blackstone's ratio on its head: "It is better that ten innocent persons suffer than that one guilty escape"

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 16 points 2 days ago

Shit, looks like the Baghdad approach is coming back home. Like the imperial boomerang

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

"immigration crackdown"