EU wants to deport people to countries with which they have no connection

People work by habits. "The king rules all," "Whoever wins the election takes office," free speech, court system, traditions and habits. A big part of how fascism can get traction is by redefining words, so that something horrifying they want to do slides its way into reality under protective coloration pretending it is something else that people already have decided is okay. "FISA warrant," "prisoner of war." "Enemy of the state." "Hate speech." This new thing that's happening with the word "deportation," where it basically is starting to mean "law enforcement snatching some random person and putting them in a turbo-prison outside the country with not even a pretense of due process," is a shockingly extreme example.

Actual deportation was already horrifying enough, with the lack of having to do anything wrong most of the time and with the flimsiness of the due process involved, but usually the feds had to at least had to show up in court and make some kind of claim, and someone who was a citizen or otherwise had a strong factual counter-claim had a reasonable chance of proving it and fighting their deportation. Also, the punishment you were subjected to was "only" getting separated permanently from your home and a lot of times from your friends and family, and any further punishment was from some unrelated government as an unrelated process if any. This new thing isn't that. It's not deportation. It's "deportation." In a lot of cases it's just prison, organized in some other country in coordination with the law enforcement that "deported" you, without a trial or judge being involved, and with no way to fight to get free or prove your case. There's a massive fucking difference. I don't know what Germany has in mind, but in the US at least, people in the news should not be calling this new thing "deportation."

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People work by habits. "The king rules all," "Whoever wins the election takes office," free speech, court system, traditions and habits. A big part of how fascism can get traction is by redefining words, so that something horrifying they want to do slides its way into reality under protective coloration pretending it is something else that people already have decided is okay. "FISA warrant," "prisoner of war." "Enemy of the state." "Hate speech." This new thing that's happening with the word "deportation," where it basically is starting to mean "law enforcement snatching some random person and putting them in a turbo-prison outside the country with not even a pretense of due process," is a shockingly extreme example.
Actual deportation was already horrifying enough, with the lack of having to do anything wrong most of the time and with the flimsiness of the due process involved, but usually the feds had to at least had to show up in court and make some kind of claim, and someone who was a citizen or otherwise had a strong factual counter-claim had a reasonable chance of proving it and fighting their deportation. Also, the punishment you were subjected to was "only" getting separated permanently from your home and a lot of times from your friends and family, and any further punishment was from some unrelated government as an unrelated process if any. This new thing isn't that. It's not deportation. It's "deportation." In a lot of cases it's just prison, organized in some other country in coordination with the law enforcement that "deported" you, without a trial or judge being involved, and with no way to fight to get free or prove your case. There's a massive fucking difference. I don't know what Germany has in mind, but in the US at least, people in the news should not be calling this new thing "deportation."