• hakase@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    a. Sure, if we’re disingenuously ignoring the meanings and implications of words today for some reason.

    b. For the first part of this question, here’s a response I made elsewhere that addresses it:

    "The article doesn’t address that, so I’d be speculating, but if I had to guess, I’d say either:

    1. US authorities determined that Panama had some sort of culpability for the migrants entering the US - maybe they were lax in their policing of the Darien Gap, for example

    or, also quite likely given how much of a petty dick Trump is:

    1. Trump forced Panama specifically to take them as a show of power related to his threat to steal the Panama Canal."

    For the second part of your b. point, I don’t see a reason that this is a bad thing for Panama to do, even if it sucks that they’re the ones having to do it. This isn’t a concentration camp - it’s a temporary camp until the migrants can be repatriated.