The deporting that isn't

What the Trump administration is doing is not deporting. Sure, there have been some deportations, done in a stupidly-expensive way. But getting 11 million people back to their country of origin is a logistical nightmare. We know Trump is terrible at logistics given, for example, how he still owes money to El Paso for his 2020 campaign. He can't even get the money where it's supposed to go. How do we expect him to get people where they are "supposed" to go? 

Frankly, I do not. And neither does Trump. His current plan is to use GITMO to house his detainees. [source] Of course, he doesn't call them "detainees" or "immigrants." No, he calls them "criminal illegal aliens." Note the dehumanizing speech, one of Trump's specialties. But also note that GITMO is not returning someone to their country of origin. It's detaining them under US control. Much as I don't think the idea of deporting immigrants to be just, at least it doesn't mean imprisoning them indefinitely.

I also cannot help but think about another group that planned at one point to send their detainees to an island, where it was okay if they were treated poorly or died, because they wouldn't be near anybody who would care. Enter the Madagascar Plan. Not only were Jews to be sent away to somewhere with harsh enough conditions that many would die, but they were to be under control of those who already enforced the Jewish ghettos.

As they say, history may not repeat, but it certainly rhymes.