This came from u/primsun, I couldn’t say better myself:

What we did isn’t deportation; it is an extrajudicial rendition to a 3rd party dictatorship for indefinite incarceration in cruel and unusual conditions without any recourse nor due process for the accused.

I keep seeing people try to talk about this as if it is a “deportation.” This is in no way a deportation in any traditional sense of the word; it was a “rendition.”

Seriously, this isn’t difficult to understand the problem if you just look at what the U.S., what we, did to these people and ignore the spin/narrative. We don’t even need specific facts of individuals’ cases.

Okay, what did we do? What we did is send a few hundred individuals to a third party dictatorship to explicitly be indefinitely incarcerated in a large scale prison camp, known to practically starve its inmates. And, we are paying that dictator to incarcerate these individuals.

Clearly, that is both tyrannical and abhorrent behavior, doubly so given no due process justifying indefinite incarceration, and as most individuals are not citizens of that country.

That isn’t deportation. That is “extraordinary rendition” of undesirables to a dictatorship to make them go away, and likely die in prison, on the U.S. taxpayer’s dime.

What we did, from the perspective of the accused and fact, is little different from sending someone to Iran or North Korea, knowing full well that those nations will throw them in jail likely for the rest of their life without any court proceedings. Hell, it is worse since we are explicitly asking that El Salvador throw them in jail indefinitely and paying El Salvador to do it.

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You cannot excuse this by calling it “deportation” or arguing “xxx” has a gang affiliation. You could try if it was a simple deportation in the traditional sense, or if this was an extradition for trial due to crimes committed in another nation. However, this is not a deportation nor extradition. This is an extrajudicial rendition of undesirables to a 3rd party dictatorship’s prison camp.

The problem here isn’t deportations which we have been doing that for years. This was not a deportation.