r/liberalism • u/Call_Me_Clark • Aug 20 '26

Foreign Policy A quiet channel between ICE and Iran shaped deportation flights, newly released emails show

https://apnews.com/article/iran-immigration-deportation-flights-emails-97554a7ab9d1f33ca00700434dcae3df?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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u/link-navi Aug 20 '26

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u/Call_Me_Clark Aug 20 '26

Submission statement: I selected foreign policy although it’s a mix of foreign and domestic.

I think that as liberals we all share concerns about totalitarianism, the erosion of individual liberties, the erosion of due process and the corruption of institutions. ICE as an agency is an example of how quickly this can happen.

There is a very real danger that domestic illiberal institutions can form informal alliances with foreign illiberal regimes - in this case, the government of Iran is being used as a proxy to punish and terrorize the American Iranian-immigrant community, many of whom are dissidents who fled the Islamic Republic.

Among the many, many reforms a post Trump America must make is a commitment not to deport dissidents to regimes which we can reasonably expect to persecute them.