Go home or talk to Noem

 

JEFFREY ST. CLAIR>>

+ Earlier this week, the New York Times exposed the Trump administration’s plan to deport non-citizens from Southeast Asia (the Philippines, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia) and Mexico to Libya on US military flights. Since HRC’s regime destruction operation in 2011, Libya has remained in a state of civil war and near anarchy. There are two warring governments in Libya, one based in Tripoli, the other under the control of the warlord Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi, which has been accused of selling civilians into slavery. Guess which one Trump has friendly relations with?  The deal was apparently brokered by Marco Rubio, even though his own State Department warns US citizens against traveling to Libya “due to crime, terrorism, unexploded land mines, civil unrest, kidnapping and armed conflict.” Libya’s prisons, where the deported noncitizens would be confined, are some of the world’s worst. In a 2021 report, Amnesty International described them as a “hellscape” of torture and “sexual violence against men, women, and children.”  When asked point-blank if he approved the plan to deport noncitizens kidnapped by ICE to Libyan prisons, Trump claimed ignorance.

+ The Trump administration has even tried to coerce the Ukrainian government to accept people deported by the US, despite the fact that Ukraine remains under near-daily Russian bombardment and doesn’t have a functioning airport.

+ Here’s JD Vance threatening to deport soccer fans who travel to the US to watch the World Cup and overstay their visas:” We’ll have visitors from close to 100 countries. We want them to come, we want them to celebrate, we want them to watch the games. But when the time is up, they’ll have to go home, otherwise they’ll have to talk to Secretary Noem.”