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.”

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    The propaganda is getting lazy, this doesn’t even make sense.

    Idk, maybe it is just feels-based. If we keep repeating over and over in various ways how bad and anti-Palestinian Kamala Harris was while she was in charge of the country and setting our Gaza policy, people will absorb it by pure groupthink, and won’t notice that the number of people deported or disappeared for being Gaza protestors has gone up infinity percent since the other person won the election and in fact this exact type of issue was a big part of why it was super important for him not to win.

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      Their argument is liberals capitulating to the right in order to “win over voters” which will never vote for them. Not an exact 1 to 1 comparison.

      Kamala did support the brutal crackdown on student protesters. But, she did indeed not deport them. That said, ICE under Biden and Kamala was already heavily in violation of human rights and continuing the Trump 2016 agenda. Deportation of wrongthink is but the next logical step of the ratchet effect.

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        Yeah it’s “weird” how up in arms liberals were when Trump opened the concentration camps but how quiet they were when Biden neglected to close them so he could use them even more than Trump did

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        Ah yes, those are some perfectly standard talking points.

        I think I will do up a FAQ for the disinformation community or something, it is getting tiring repeatedly typing the same responses. But I do appreciate the extra effort to at least put together something which has some semblance of plausibility instead of just seeing “Gaza” and reaching for the “Kamala Harris” button without bothering to make it make sense or relate in literally any way at all. Big improvement. Good stuff.

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          Their comparison is to Liberals because “Liberals” are currently running Germany instead of the “far right”. Whatever these terms even mean anymore, seeing they both love Fascism.

          If the AfD was in charge the comparison would have been to Trump.

          German Liberals also appear to also do their very best to hand an easy win to the far right next election by blaming immigrants and protesters for everything instead of addressing any economic issues. Thus making the entire populace vote more right similar to how Liz Kamaley handed the win to Trump.

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            Berlin is run by right-wing conservatives, not liberals. The federal government lacks authority for states deciding whom to deport.

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                Those are the results from the 2024 European Parliament Election.

                Here are the results of the more relevant 2023 State Parliament Election:

                The state government is right-wing conservatives with centrist-at-best “social” democrats. Both are very supportive of police cracking down on people who wouldn’t have voted for them anyways.

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          I appreciate it as well. I don’t like people dismissing the wrong Biden and Kamala have done. However, the people constantly saying it doesn’t matter if you vote for Kamala or Trump because they’re both fascist is wrong and annoying.

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              IndustryStandard criticizing Kamala but mentioning Kamala wouldn’t do all the same things as Trump. I like how they mentioned it was the a stepping stone for Trump’s deportations but I was not referring to that specifically.

              Kamala did support the brutal crackdown on student protesters. But, she did indeed not deport them. That said, ICE under Biden and Kamala was already heavily in violation of human rights and continuing the Trump 2016 agenda. Deportation of wrongthink is but the next logical step of the ratchet effect.

              PhilipTheBucket liking that that IndustryStandard’s post was nuanced and not as simple as “Kamala bad”.

              I think I will do up a FAQ for the disinformation community or something, it is getting tiring repeatedly typing the same responses. But I do appreciate the extra effort to at least put together something which has some semblance of plausibility instead of just seeing “Gaza” and reaching for the “Kamala Harris” button without bothering to make it make sense or relate in literally any way at all. Big improvement. Good stuff.

              I was trying to say I liked the nuanced discussion, and was expanding on it with my own experiences.

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                PhilipTheBucket liking that that IndustryStandard’s post was nuanced and not as simple as “Kamala bad”.

                Uh… I’m pretty sure you misunderstood that. PhilipTheBucket was speaking ironically; they were saying that IndustryStandard’s response is still disinformation, just higher quality disinformation that’s meant to look vaguely plausible. This is not a nuanced discussion; it’s PhilipTheBucket dismissing IndustryStandard’s response as disinformation and propaganda meant to make America’s Great Saviors look bad.