Berlin’s immigration authorities are moving to deport four young foreign residents on allegations related to participation in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, an unprecedented move that raises serious concerns over civil liberties in Germany.

The deportation orders, issued under German migration law, were made amid political pressure and over internal objections from the head of the state of Berlin’s immigration agency.

The internal strife arose because three of those targeted for deportation are citizens of European Union member states who normally enjoy freedom of movement between E.U. countries. None of the four has been convicted of any crimes.

“What we’re seeing here is straight out of the far right’s playbook,” said Alexander Gorski, a lawyer representing two of the protesters. “You can see it in the U.S. and Germany, too: Political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters.”

  • Chainweasel
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    I’m pretty sure Kamala, being a private citizen and not the president, has nothing to do with the deportations taking place in America right now.
    I’d check who the current president is and assign blame to him.

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      sure, if you wanna do a dog-shit ahistorical analysis of what lead to this, you could place the blame entirely on Trump.

      do you seriously expect us to ignore the direct parallel between the Democrats adopting fascist rhetoric and deportations and the social Democrats in Germany adopting AfD propaganda in their program?

      you either didn’t pay attention when she threw us under the bus to win the fascist electorate or You actively cheered her on as she was doing it. same for her being a rabid Zionist.

      • @Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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        Agreed. The Democrats started this Mcarthyist witchhunt about Hamas supporting students and anti Zionism is anti semitism baloney. Thanks to them the Republicans were gifted with a ready made clampdown on civil rights.

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          Also, seems like you haven’t heard of Rufo and similar Republican propagandists

        • Natanael
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          Pretty sure most of those university board members are conservative

        • @shaserlark@sh.itjust.works
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          As a trans person in this timeline obviously they’re not okay, are you doing anything to make the situation better for them in any possible way? If not better lose the snarkiness

          • @torrentialgrain@lemm.ee
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            Ah sorry, I didn’t realize being trans gives you a free pass for spreading political propaganda but I know better now.

            Actually I think it’s kind of patronizing to say that trans people just can’t help themselves from posting shit like that because of their circumstances.

            • NoneOfUrBusiness
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              Trans people probably can’t help themselves from responding to Democrat apologia when most of the things Trump is doing were first legitimized by Democrats either in speech or action.

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                Okay buddy, American far left accelerationists working hand in hand with the alt right to dismantle democracy will never not be funny from an outside perspective.

                You’re beginning to see the regime you brought on but instead of owning up to it, you blame it on milquetoast technocrats like Kamala Harris lmao.

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                  Ahhh yes it’s the far left that’s working hand in hand with the fascists not the Democrats who are currently rubber stamping things like Trump’s cabinet picks, the Laken Riley act, and even the recent spending bill that just barley managed to limp over the edge thanks to, you guessed, the Democrats!

                  You’re actually just blue MAGA, you somehow make fun of Red Hats for still blaming Biden for everything while blaming the boogyman leftist for your parties failures.

                  It’d be hilarious how you people think you’re so different from Republicans if I didn’t have to deal with the reality of your representatives working with fascists to dismantle OUR rights.

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                    Lmao, you were presented with a classic trolley problem and you failed it. Now it’s everyone’s fault but yours. Good luck in the impending fascist regime, I’m sure boycotting Kamala was worth it!

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              Except that they’re making perfect sense and you’re simply calling it political propaganda because it doesn’t fit into your world view. There’s nothing to patronize because it’s a perfectly sane take, you’re the one trying to gaslight us here.

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            Fine you want deportation specific? Democrats rubber stamped the Laken Riley act, fuck you.

            My point was Democrats are literally working lockstep with Republicans and you’re too much a blue MAGAt to care.

            • @Tja@programming.dev
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              I love your passion, but I’m just a dude thousands of miles away, eating popcorn and laughing in your general direction.