When deportees fear for their lives so much they signal distress with a giant SOS sign, that’s the sign of a robust democracy.
I guess they’ll be allowed out in the courtyard one by one from now on…
When deportees fear for their lives so much they signal distress with a giant SOS sign, that’s the sign of a robust democracy.
I guess they’ll be allowed out in the courtyard one by one from now on…
So, I fully expect to get downvoted for this, but I don’t know if this is as big a deal as people want to believe.
Is this really a sign of absolute desperation? Is this something they would only do in the most dire of circumstances?
The prisoners are probably bored. They probably are aware that a lot of people sympathize with them. They probably suspect they won’t be severely punished for making an SOS shape. So, it’s something to do to keep drawing attention to what’s happening.
I suspect the reason you don’t see this at normal prisons is that the prisoners know they would be punished if they did it, they know people don’t generally sympathize with them, and (most importantly) it’s probably much riskier to try to get a drone flying over a prison taking videos.
I’m not saying that they’re not suffering, or that their deportation is just. Clearly Trump is breaking the law and violating due process. And, by all accounts, the conditions in the detention centres are pretty unpleasant. My only point is that this may be more “this sucks, this is unfair, help us!” vs. “they’re torturing and murdering us, do something now or we’ll die!”
So your theory is that those illegally-abducted detainees, who know they’re one flight away from landing in a Salvadorian concentration camp without having seen a judge, are bored attention whores who think they can get away with staging a little dramatic show in the courtyard?
No, I never said anything about “bored attention whores”.
What’s your theory? That if they’re caught doing this they’re going to be executed?