The other night, while watching a baseball game, I saw my first ad for self-deportation. One minute Shohei Ohtani was at the plate and then suddenly there was Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, looking stern and urging immigrants to self-deport using the administration’s new app, CBP Home.“Do what’s right,” Noem advised. “Leave now.”The taxpayer-funded ad had started like a campaign commercial, praising President Donald Trump for locking down the southern border. Then it flashed images of rape suspects, alleged gang members, and others arrested by ICE. And then came footage of U.S. deportees sent to El Salvador, stripped to their underwear and forced to kneel before black-clad prison guards in masks. “If you are here illegally, you’re next,” Noem said into the camera. She seemed to imply that anyone who doesn’t use CBP Home will go straight to the Gulag.[Adam Serwer: The deportation show]“You will never return,”… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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