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US-Somalia deportations: He was an Uber driver in the US. Now he's scared of jihadists in Somalia (www.bbc.com)

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Mahad Mohamud is slowly readjusting to the heat, chaos and tension of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after being deported from the US city of Minneapolis last month just as winter was closing in there.

Somalis know the 36-year-old as Garyaqaan - a word that can be translated as "judge".

This is the name he uses on TikTok, where he attracted almost half a million followers while he was abroad. Fans praised Mahad for his defence of his clan's interests - part of Somalia's lucrative TikTok roasting sub-culture.

But to those running the White House-linked "Rapid Response 47" X account, Mahad was a "criminal illegal scumbag". In an October post it accused him of being "involved in the kidnapping of French officials" from a hotel in the Somali capital.

Mahad has denied the allegation, saying that he was not in Mogadishu at the time. He was never convicted and the case was dropped.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

The more I think about it, the more I reckon Europe should offer to take in the "worst of the worst" that the US administration is forcibly deporting.

Because I'm pretty sure Europe would take in overwhelmingly harmless, hard-working, talented and grateful people - grateful for being spared the cruel fate the fascist US regime had in mind for em.

There is a precedent for this: the US taking in refugees and deportees from early Nazi Germany some 90 years ago. And anybody who know anything about history knows most of those German expats became a huge net positive for the US - save for Henry Kissinger that is.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I mean hell the US was originally founded on this

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 11 points 6 days ago

The US was most definitely NOT founded on this.

This was a poem written in 1883 to raise money for a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty that was donated by the French.

For historical accuracy, it's worth noting that the United States were founded by religious nutjobs, and open-armed integration of foreign people and ideas was really, REALLY not what they had in mind.

[–] Kiernian@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Knowing that poem meant I got chills from the opening lyrics to the Mayans M.C. theme song when I heard it for the first time:

Mother of Exiles, the torch of hope.

In the toss of the tempest, threw us Madison's rope.

But the brazen giant, with limbs astride, blocks the golden door to the US of Lies, screaming:

Fuck your huddled masses, scrub our floors, cut our grasses.

I am a wolf, a wild cur, cut from the pack, with blood on my fur. Every howl marks the dead.

Cause a beaten dog never forgets.

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

Lmao, europeans are far too racist for that

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

Because I'm pretty sure Europe would take in overwhelmingly harmless, hard-working, talented and grateful people

Have you not seen the rise in right-winger bs in Germany over immigration from Syria?

Anti immigrant rhetoric is on the rise across the globe.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Because I’m pretty sure Europe would take in overwhelmingly harmless, hard-working, talented and grateful people

Tell that to the Greeks, and the Polish who are constantly having to push back on immigration.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

You're assuming that the fascist simply wants a lot of people out of the US, and these are just the only places they can go. And that couldn't be more wrong.

The cruelty really is the point. There are countless countries where people could be deported to. Countries that are willing to accept them, where they might have ties or at least know the language.

These options aren't cruel enough. And this is exactly the face that's being presented to the general public.

Even if (big if) Europe were willing to accept them, it would never happen because it's not cruel enough.