It's crazy to think that a country could just send you to some random ass country that you have absolutely no connection to. I know this happens all the time to many people in many countries, it's just insane to stop and ponder it for a second.
Reality check - it's absolutely bizarre that a country you live and work in as a functional member of society would decide that you are now banished to a foreign land that you have no knowledge of. As American, imagine being drop-shipped to a small village in Uzbekistan with no money, clothes or google-translate. This is wicked-fucked up torture.
Would be cool to send a certain orange person there. But not to Uzbekistan, from what I know is actually quite nice there.
So, Eswatini. Tiny landlocked country between South Africa and Mozambique. Its biggest cities aren't safe for visitors, even in crowded public spaces. Few police. Lots of crime. Literally like a dozen ambulances for the entire country. A developing country on the poorer side whose population is ruled by an absolute monarchy (king) who takes a significant share of the wealth. Pro-democracy protests get put down violently, but the people don't seem to be particularly repressed otherwise (the state seems to be too poor to do it even if the king wanted to). Mostly subsistence farming, sugarcane, and some manufacturing for 1/3 of the wages of South Africans. About 30% of the population has HIV, and tuberculosis is fairly widespread. Median age is early 20s.
Wouldn't be my first choice.
Now they are just making up countries!
Name change from Swaziland, I learned today
"Oh, this Crime Against Humanity doesn't suit you? Would you prefer a different one?"
This could be any of us next. Kilmar and his supporters proved the administration is incompetent and committed an illegal deportation.
The only way to solve this for them is to make him public enemy #1. Hope the best for him and his family. So many innocent people in the US have been killed or harmed by the trump administration.
At this point, we don’t need to do it. We need to do all of it.
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