What, they decided that what the US is doing looks fun? This is an awful policy in the US and it would be an awful policy in Europe...
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2025
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MAGA has invested heavily in the far right across Europe. In Portugal, they already talk about sending the Ciganos who have been living here for centuries to India or Pakistan.
In Sweden the youtube channel of the far-right party (second largest party in polls) have like 4ish years back said stuff like that they want to deport people to china (for some fucking reason) for writing political messages in washable crayons publically. Since then they have been invited to collaborate with the government, so, yeah.
One of the few things the US is still a world leader in is right wing crazy.
The EU is America's servile little lapdog, its no surprise they would take notes from Trump on this. Especially when it comes to persecuting migrants to feed the cultural war, so that they don't have to talk about how they're about to do more austerity and health service cuts. The war machine demands more human sacrifices to keep running!
Well UK has been doing it for some time now too if I recall correctly.
The current government cancelled the previous government's "send 'em all to Rwanda" plan if that's what you're thinking about.
This is not to say we're squeaky clean when it comes to the treatment of migrants - we're still firmly in "could do better" territory - but as far as I know, we haven't been deliberately sending people just anywhere else. At least not yet*. Deportations are to where they can be unequivocally proved to have come from, and there's usually a good reason for it.
* If the Reform lot get in at the next General Election then the policy is almost certain to be MAGA-level insane.
Fascism much?
Time for all the smug Europeans to clean up their own houses.