Aside from the logistical implications of deporting 11 million people, it would be a crime against humanity to do so.
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Replying to @aurabogado
If you look at the history of war crimes and crimes against humanity, you'll consistently find that deportation is among them.
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Among the most troubling issues when it comes to deportation: it rarely starts with immigration authorities. Almost always starts with cops.
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That means that, as an effective practice of population control, deportation is connected between local and federal authorities.
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We know what cops do to black and brown people, right? Yet we act like that's not connected to deportation.
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That's why the vast majority of people who are deported are black and brown people.
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That's why I'm troubled by this framework about the logistics of deporting 11 million people. You're making people invisible doing so.
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By making people invisible, the "How are you going to deport millions? By bus? By plane?" thing plays right into anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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If we remember we're talking 11 million *human beings*, we'll remember other attempts at deporting millions of people as part of war crimes.
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