Here’s an Orwellian word for you: “self-deport.”

“Self-deport” is how our leaders describe people without legal status choosing to leave the country. It implies they did so freely, with no coercion.

And it’s nonsense, as the hell that descended on two Alabama immigrants shows.

University of Alabama graduate student Alireza Doroudi went to Iran after Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him in March . Giovanna Hernandez-Martinez went to Mexico after Leeds police sent her to ICE this summer.

But let’s not pretend either choice was voluntary. Officials kept Doroudi, who had no criminal record, locked in a jail in Louisiana. There, his mental health, hearing and vision deteriorated. The Trump administration eventually acknowledged that it had no evidence for the charge a

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