«You have no right to be here.» A teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York. Instead, she was jailed in New Jersey before being deported. A lawyer warns that something similar could happen to almost anyone.
  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I see that somebody in the Trump régime thought that the detainee population looked ‘too woke’ and needed some whites in the mix.

    She says the prisoners were assigned numbers instead of names. «I was number 18.»

    https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1802943

    The next day they came after roll call, and they tattooed me. They tattooed me and they told us [that] from now on, this is my name. My name is A‐5143. And they said, “From now on you do not answer by your name. Your name is your number.” And the delusion, the disappointment, the discouragement that I felt…I felt like I was not a human person anymore.