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As they are using these people as pawns to make deals, I can only see this as enslaving people for human trafficking. Sending them back to their home country - deportation - is too lawful and soft for those who want to extract $$ from ever cell in every body they can get their hands on.

To me the mainstream media is just being lazy and don't want to actually educate their readers as to what the terminology really is.

They spent yesterday , howling about their WH access but they could easily use their mic and camera to report this and other atrocities.

words are little heroes, and @gillianbrockell.com always uses them wisely.

You and S Ackerman are making fair points And I suspect that editors and some reporters struggle to get past the habitual deferential presumption of regularity and legitimacy NYT has given to government POV Lots of good reporting but still an overall frame of “crackdown“ which implies legitimacy