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This is the most frustrating and stupid news cycle - the US government has been sending folks back to Colombia via commercial flights since like 2020. The Biden administration sent 124 flights last year. The only difference is that the Trump team wanted to make a big show of sending people in chains on a military flight, and the Colombian government wanted their citizens to be treated like human beings. Our media is shamefully inadequate to this moment.
Devils advocate: these people broke the law, are the optics of them being transported in a "prison plane" really out of line with what's happened?
Military cargo planes are not prison planes lol
are you sure about that. a great multitude of things which were one thing on january 19th 2025, will never be the same things again after january 20th 2025
My mistake, my phrasing could have been better.
Given that people breaking the law are routinely transported while handcuffed in non commercial police vehicles, what specifically is the issue with transporting them on something other than a civilian jet?