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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's happening to everybody now, more often, whether its the El Salvador deportation cases or the tourists. But the reporting on the cases receiving special attention (not primarily because they're white, it's because they have external connections that can connect to anglo national media), many have chosen to highlight the suffering that they witnessed of people equally as innocent but have been stuck in limbo for far longer than they have.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

Absolutely right. Similar scenarios have been playing out for a long time, but the additional, onerous measures were seldom applied to anyone with the resources to fight it in court or put the U.S. government on blast in the media.

Some of the stories from years past are so absurdly improbable that they seem like fiction. Americans who've lived their entire lives stateside but whose citizenship/documentation was not "in order" have been deported to their parent's countries of origin, and where they have no contacts and sometimes don't even speak the language. Jimmy Aldaoud from Michigan whose parents were Iraqi refugees and who was born in a camp in Greece before the family settled in the U.S. He later died of complications of diabetes as he was unable to obtain consular assistance or even insulin.