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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/33910062

The Trump administration apologized in court for a “mistake” in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student who was detained trying to fly home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, but still argued the error should not affect her case.

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 158 points 2 months ago (1 children)

... but still argued the error should not affect her case.

The "error" is the fucking case.

[–] homes@piefed.world 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“Yes, but you know, don’t worry about that”

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 46 points 2 months ago

In other words, moving detainees out of state as fast as possible guarantees them the ability to act with impunity, while minimizing due process for detainees. If there's no effort to STOP rapid transport of new detainees out of their original jurisdiction, they'll get away with it endlessly.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 months ago
[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but no questioning why this happened and no changing anything structurally huh? worthless apology.

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

They would have to admit that ice arbitrarily deports people

[–] BlitzFitz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago