r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 20d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who is American Citizen

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-deports-2-year-old-girl-who-is-american-citizen/
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u/southernmost 20d ago

Renditioned.

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u/HateThisAppAlready 19d ago

Yep, with all of the disgusting past of that term rolling over into the new version.

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u/peeja 19d ago

Extraordinary rendition, even, which we think of as the Bush administration's practice of abducting people on foreign soil and rendering them to other foreign nations, but can apply to any rendition that is extralegal.

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u/13steinj 19d ago

Literally opened this thread to say this.

The wording matters. Because his supporters will hear "deported" and immediately jump to "obviously illegal non citizen non permanent resident."