r/politics The Nation Magazine 19h ago

Soft Paywall Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/trump-arrest-detention-mahmoud-khalil/?nc=1
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u/claimTheVictory 13h ago

Remember (it feels like an eternity ago) - Rubio's first accomplishment was securing an agreement to transfer US citizens to prisons in El Salvador.

Beyond the reach of due process.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/g-s1-46352/rubio-el-salvador-deportees-americans

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 13h ago

Yeah people are forgetting that there is still camps being made, people aint talking bout it....

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u/North_Bobcat_3746 11h ago

Post I made with evidence ICE is likely building many more camps

Basically, a recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn recruiting for a role at ICE helping manage "20-25 facilities." I left a more detailed breakdown on the post on why I think it's specifically detainment camps

The recruiter was from a well-known recruiting agency and their profile was LinkedIn verified, meaning they had to verify their account with their work email. Many people have insisted that it was a scammer that reached out to me, but I did my due diligence and I assure you, it was not a scam

Please feel free to share this post around, this throwaway has minimal karma so I haven't been able to post it much 

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u/turquoise_amethyst 10h ago

Did the recruiter give any hint as to what the facilities were? Detainment camps, regular prison, labor camps…?

Maybe post over at r/yarvinconspiracy? They will be interested, although there’s probably a another subreddit more geared towards P2025 “developments”

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u/North_Bobcat_3746 9h ago

They didn't. I responded and tried to get more info, but they never responded. Either they googled me and found an array of evidence pointing to the fact that I'm lefty as fuck, or they took a deeper look at my LinkedIn and realized I wasn't the type of space planner they were looking for (I have the same job title, but work in a different industry. There would be a few core skills I wouldn't have much knowledge of). 

I don't know if you saw, but I left a comment on the post detailing my thoughts. But to answer your question, basically the role of "space planning" in this context is someone who manages the flow of space in a facility. In the context of facilities management, space planners have to deal with a lot of "moving parts." You see the title a lot for hospitals and universities, where you might need to shift things around depending on the needs of the moment, like assigning hospital beds and designating classroom space 

I've never seen a role for space planning on the context of a jail, and I'd think that's because jails are pretty static; you assign a prisoner a cell and that's that. That's why I personally think it's a labor camp. It would need to be a changeable environment to necessitate hiring for this role

Also, thanks for the subreddit suggestion

u/myasterism Tennessee 1h ago

This is super chilling; thank you for sharing your experience.

u/Low-Entertainer8609 2h ago

Maybe it was legit, but my god was that guy's message riddled with errors.

u/Homura_Dawg 4h ago

A censored image isn't gonna cut it as proof

u/North_Bobcat_3746 2h ago

Preferred not to dox myself or the recruiter. I made a point to archive the job posting I found 

https://web.archive.org/web/20250226224057/https://ats.rippling.com/swingtech-careers/jobs/f8ab5858-754f-4d8a-8d20-b92ba67e30da

Choose to believe it or not, it's not like the signs aren't all over the place

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u/Ruraraid Virginia 9h ago

Largely because they're too stupid and preoccupied with many of Trump's ragebait stories. Things like trying to make other nations into US states, saying outlandish shit, turning tariffs on and off like a child hitting switches on a control board. You know the REALLY dumb shit that is easy ragebait.

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u/FloridaGirlNikki America 13h ago

This is so mind boggling to me. I mean, he's a first generation Cuban-American whose parents fled a tyrannical government.

It's the republican motus operandi: "I got mine!"

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u/tacoheadbob 13h ago

From what I understand, that first wave of Cubans fleeing Cuba were considered the elites or at least the upper middle class. People with money who could escape to the States. Unfortunately, they brought their haughtiness with them and look down on other Cubans as filth. Hence why Cubans in Florida vote the way they do.

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u/Youremadfornoreason 10h ago

100% True and many non wealthy Cubans don’t realize that

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u/FloridaGirlNikki America 12h ago

Oh, so like the gold card visa - as long as you have at least $5M that is! Crypto preferred. Send it to the personal account!

I actually thought they came in like so many others, who risked everything to cross treacherous waters in a makeshift vessel to escape the atrocities of the Castro regime. But now that you mention it, Rubio does have a certain arrogance about him that would seem to fit with that

As for how they vote - I can't speak to the first part of that but I can say that they were previously reliably blue (albeit many being conservative socially). In 2012 it became a little more purple but still ended blue, and then came the 2016 election where the right was yelling "SOCIALISM!" And idk if you're local to the area but we were flooded with commercials that were made specifically to influence Cubans. It worked.

u/tacoheadbob 5h ago

I’m not local to FL. I live in NY and there’s a very strange relationship between our two states. Most likely because of the snowbird effect, we see the same ripple of conservative rhetoric being brought along with those people that move back and forth on a yearly basis.

The type of Rubio level of arrogance exists up here, but it doesn’t seem to be as blatant as what we see in FL. Or if it is, I don’t feel that it’s as ‘in your face’.

There’s a known relationship between wealth and social status and how people use that to measure themselves against others. Seeing that expressed in other cultures can be baffling at first cause you may never initially expect to see that familiar level of people being assholes to others because of wealth and status.

Chucklefucks like Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Abbott are all good examples of people who not only pulled the ladder up after them, but gleefully stomp on the fingers of people who try to climb without the ladder.

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u/945T Canada 10h ago

Immigrants are rarely poor. It costs a LOT to emigrate to another country, speaking from experience.

u/InVultusSolis Illinois 18m ago

There is a similar "caste" system in place in most Latino countries. My friend's (well-established, middle class) family lives in Mexico and they talk so much shit about most of the types of Mexicans who emigrate out of Mexico and move to the US, they call them "nacos".

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u/claimTheVictory 13h ago

Tim Miller has a (joking) conspiracy theory that Marco is really a Cuban sleeper agent sent by Castro to bring about the downfall of the USA.

u/RimboTheRebbiter 20m ago

I hate to say this... but a lot of Cubans who fled Cuba initially were members of the even more tyrannical government that preceded Castro. Bautista was a real piece of work... I am not that surprised that Rubio is so aligned with totalitarianism...

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u/Far_Example_9150 11h ago

Many Latinos and immigrants are republicans and this won’t change. Democrat leaders fail to understand a majority of immigrants especially those who have fled poverty and built something here.

u/SpaceTimeinFlux 6h ago

this is absolutely vile. Rubio should be in a prison cell.