Muslim Deportations from USA Likely Already Underway
March 25, 2016 5:31 AM Subscribe
Immigration authorities have begun transporting South Asian detainees to Florence, Arizona, as a staging ground for impending mass deportation. Many of the Muslim migrants from Bangladesh being transported were participants in the #Freedomgiving hunger strikes at the end of 2015 that roiled a dozen detention centers across the country and brought attention to the prolonged, unjustified, and discriminatory detention of Muslim and South Asian migrants.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is not being received all that well I'm afraid. It does feel like it's framed more as a "raising awareness" type post than as simply "something interesting on the web", and MeFi's always been mostly about the latter. -- goodnewsfortheinsane
MetaFilter shouldn't be used for petitions.
posted by grouse at 5:55 AM on March 25, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by grouse at 5:55 AM on March 25, 2016 [3 favorites]
I'm confused too and have flagged this - isn't this a poorly-referenced driver for a petition?
posted by Wordshore at 5:56 AM on March 25, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Wordshore at 5:56 AM on March 25, 2016 [1 favorite]
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