Sparks: Third-country removals: Trump’s deportation policy by the numbers
The matter is this: when a government shuffles men across the map like unwanted cargo to lands they never knew, it confesses that its authority rests not on reason, but on the geographical convenience of a shell game.
Our government has figured out a way to kick you out of a house you didn't come from, which is about the only time you'll see a politician get two miles of travel out of one mile of logic.
Democratic administrative power achieves its most absolute form when it ceases to punish the individual and simply removes his physical presence from the sight of the majority, making his very existence a matter of bureaucratic logistics.
We are told these folks are being sent home, provided we accept the new definition of home as any place on the map where the current management isn't legally required to look at you anymore.
A man in a clean office signs a paper with a flourish, and thousands of miles away, a shivering family is pushed off a plane into a dirt clearing in a country whose language they cannot speak.
They move these souls under the cover of darkness because the light of day would show the tracks lead to a wilderness where no man has a porch to sit on or a lamp to light his way.
We calculate the efficiency of the transport while refusing to wager on the infinite misery of the passenger, proving once again that man would rather study the mechanics of the machine than the vacuum in his own heart.
Power delights in moving the helpless as if they were stones on a board, forgetting that the man who disposes of another's life today is merely rehearsing for the day when fortune disposes of his own.
It is a triumph of modern reason that we may now be exiled to a country we have never seen, ensuring that we are strangers not only to our neighbors but to our very executioners.
You boast of your liberty while using the midnight sky to hide the chains of a policy that treats the image of God as a ledger entry to be balanced by deportation.
The record shows twenty-five thousand names struck from the rolls and dropped into foreign jurisdictions, revealing that the pretext of law is merely a shroud for a systematic campaign of state-sponsored disappearance.
Having successfully determined that the individuals were not from here, the department felt it only logical to ensure they were also not from there, resulting in a very efficient distribution of people to nowhere in particular.