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I think a key abolitionist takeaway from this Ron DeSantis shipping migrants story is the reiteration that "illegal immigration" is a definition conjured up arbitrarily to shit on specific groups of people
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You have people coming to the United States seeking asylum (legal by US and international law), turning themselves in (legal by US law), being told that if they get on this bus or plane they'll be housing and work on the other side.
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By the time these people figure out what's happened to them, their tiny window to actually apply for asylum through the proper channels had passed. They have somehow become illegal immigrants by following the law every step of the way
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Kidnapping (illegal), human trafficking (illegal), false pretenses (illegal), forced displacement (a war crime). Despite breaking multiple laws Texas or Florida have not become "illegal states". Some anarchist theory for today