Friday, January 31, 2025

Donald Trump wants to send repeat violent offenders to foreign prisons. Is this a good idea?

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Here in Europe it happens all too often — a refugee commits a rather heinous crime. Say, a rape. Maybe a brutal assault or a burglary. These are traumatized people, from war zones. Some of them act out. Some are straight-up trash. No, not going to mince words here…

Then along comes to long arm of the law. Criminal gets arrested. And is placed in our jails, on the taxpayer’s dime. And that sucks.

We can’t deport the refugee. Because the home country has to be “safe” first. So legally speaking, we’re stuck taking care of these bastards.

The worst thing is, some of these criminals haven’t even been in the country for years. They haven’t established firm roots here, haven’t gotten a career, no, they’re pretty much just recent arrivals. The ideal solution would be to deport them. Put them on a plane to whatever hellhole they’re from and let the authorities there take care of them. And so what if it’s the Taliban, or some cartel or tinpot dictator running the show where they’re from? They may get stoned, or shot. Which sucks. But that seems to me like a “you problem”, and I don’t see the need to make it an “us problem”…

Of all the reasons you could dislike and criticize Trump, this is one of the least sensible ones. Kicking out violent criminals with a foreign background makes perfect sense. I love human rights as much as the next guy but the moment you’re caught red-handed diddling a kid or robbing someone’s elderly granny, you’re toast. 

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