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.”

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    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.

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      It is heart breaking to see Germany begin to give in to fascism again. What happened to “never again!” ???

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        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.

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        It was a lie.

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

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          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.

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