HOW DRU CATCH SEES IT
The Relay Race Nobody Asked For
The policy has a name - "third-country deportation" - which sounds like a bureaucratic detour but functions as a legal laundering scheme. A U.S. immigration court says you cannot be sent to Country A because you will be tortured there. The administration ships you to Country B instead. Country B sends you to Country A. The paperwork is clean. The judge's ruling is technically undisturbed. The torture proceeds on schedule.
Two Steps, Zero Accountability
This is not a loophole anyone stumbled into. It is a relay race where the baton is a human being and the finish line was already declared off-limits by an American court. The administration gets to argue it never sent anyone somewhere dangerous - it just sent them somewhere that sent them somewhere dangerous. Two steps, zero accountability, one very convenient chain of custody.
The Metric Is Bodies Moved, Not Destinations Verified
What makes this institutionally absurd beyond the cruelty is the performance of legal seriousness required to sustain it. Immigration courts exist. They took evidence. They issued rulings. The administration did not appeal those rulings and win - it simply routed around them with geography. 'Largest deportation in American history' is the stated goal, and the metric is apparently bodies moved, not destinations verified. If the court said Country A is off-limits and the deportee ends up in Country A anyway via Country B, the number still counts.
THE COMMENTS SECTION HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
When a U.S. immigration court rules that a person cannot be sent to a specific country because they face persecution or torture there, and the administration routes them through a third country that then sends them there anyway, has the court's ruling been respected or circumvented?
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