Berlin’s immigration authorities are moving to deport four young foreign residents on allegations related to participation in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, an unprecedented move that raises serious concerns over civil liberties in Germany.

The deportation orders, issued under German migration law, were made amid political pressure and over internal objections from the head of the state of Berlin’s immigration agency.

The internal strife arose because three of those targeted for deportation are citizens of European Union member states who normally enjoy freedom of movement between E.U. countries. None of the four has been convicted of any crimes.

“What we’re seeing here is straight out of the far right’s playbook,” said Alexander Gorski, a lawyer representing two of the protesters. “You can see it in the U.S. and Germany, too: Political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters.”

  • Jonas
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    672 months ago

    I fucking hate the timeline we’re living in

  • @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    352 months ago

    Fash support fash. Germany has been supporting genocide for a long time.

    It’s really amazing how liberals will completely accept genocide up until the very second that it affects them.

      • @Tryenjer@lemmy.world
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        It was a lie.

        And in a decade or so, before you know it, Deutschland will be invading Poland again.

        • @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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          22 months ago

          My prediction, built on assuming we’re in the stupidest timeline, is that Germany will try to help the Palestinians…by carving a new homeland for them out of Poland.

      • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        12 months ago

        People started to claim that the people did the thing that was supposed to never happen again did them with no moral self-justifications. This lead to the same evil people getting away with evil yet again if they pull out a (usually fabricated) crime statistics, etc.

    • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      102 months ago

      Look, if we don’t tolerate at least a little genocide of somebody else, then we’re basically throwing our votes away. /s

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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      62 months ago

      “I think re-arming doesn’t do anything but spend money that could be better spent on helping people.”

      “Shut up, this is exactly what we need right now!”

      “So you don’t care about helping people?”

      “That’s a strawman!”

      Wow it looks like we were right again, but still downvoted and removed. Odd how that always works.

  • @SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    162 months ago

    If those EU citizens take it to EU court they’d probably win very easily. Can’t just take away freedom of movement, one of the tenets of the Union, without any due process. Seriously fuck the German politicians who pressured for this. Guess fascism is making a return, didn’t even need the AfD for that.

  • @But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    162 months ago

    Germany likes to pretend they’re super liberal and that they have no fascist citizens. They’ve gone completely to the other side of history where they now pretend like they’re above it all. I’m sick of people pretending like Germany is some sort of promised land

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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    152 months ago

    I hope they can escalate to Strasbourg. Can they?

    Germany is way out of line here.

    • @reiterationstation@lemm.ee
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      52 months ago

      Israel the kings of the world?

      Nah if the USA gets blamed (deserved) Germany gets fucking blamed (also deserved as the original fucking Nazis they shouldn’t have been forgiven, either).

  • @Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    52 months ago

    “Good” old Nazi thinking never left the German elites, hence their “unwavering support” for a nation committing Genocide very openly because of the race of its people, hence the highly manipulated Press over there spreading and amplifying race-based views and hence their casual bypassing of legal rights to silence those who would demonstrate against such ultra-racism and the support of Genocide based on it.

    They might have changed who the ubermenschen and the untermenshen are but they still keep on classifying people into those two categories by race and treating then very differently, as well as using force to silence dissent against such views and practices.

    In light of Russia’s aggressiveness, the recent news of Germany militarizing itself sounds like good news, but in light of the increasing regression of Germany back to their old extreme-racist and repressive practices those are very bad news - a Germany which thinks race justifies Genocide and suppresses by force dissent from such way of thinking is bound to sooner or later once again use such military power against those they deem “lesser races”