LIBYA TO TRUMP: “WE’RE NOT YOUR DUMPSTER” – THE DEPORTATION DRAMA YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING
Listen up, America. Step away from your pumpkin spice latte and pay attention, because Washington just tried to pull a political Houdini act – and Tripoli ain’t playing the magician’s assistant.
In an episode that reads like rejected script material from a political thriller, Libya – yes, the same Libya we treat like the neglected stepchild of U.S. foreign policy – has clapped back HARD against whispers that they’re next in line to receive a cargo plane or two of U.S. deportees.
Let’s rewind the tape.
The Trump machine – remember, the one that branded itself on walls, bans, and bravado – has apparently been dipping its toes in a hush-hush plan to offload migrants not to Mexico, not even to the tried-and-tired “safe third-country” charade, but to Libya. Yes, the war-scarred, splintered Libya that’s less “nation-state” and more “geo-political jigsaw puzzle.”
And when the rumor mill fired up, Libyan authorities didn’t just deny – they detonated.
“No agreement. No coordination. No negotiation,” came the rebuttal, sharpened with the kind of diplomatic side-eye that says, “Go peddle your deportations elsewhere.”
Now cue the Oval Office emoji shrug. President Trump took to the camera this week denying knowledge like it was 2020 all over again. “I don’t know anything about Libya deportations,” he mused. Folks, when The Donald says he doesn’t know anything, history teaches us – grab your boots, because the political mud is ankle-deep.
But here’s what your Sunday morning pundits won’t tell you: This isn’t just about deportation strategy – it’s about muscle. About influence. About the illusion of leverage. Handing off deportees to a crumbling government like Libya isn’t immigration policy – it’s a power play from a brand that thrives on spectacle, not solutions.
Libya’s response? Stunning. In a rare show of unity between rival factions, officials basically sent back Uncle Sam’s flaming paper bag of geopolitics with a note that read, “Do Not Return to Sender.”
Let’s be brutally clear: deporting migrants to Libya is like sending your cousin to live in a burning house because you don’t feel like cleaning out the guest room. Amid torture reports, human trafficking, and open-air slave markets (yes, those still exist – because the world doesn’t trend on Twitter), the U.S. even mooting this idea shows either tinted glass ignorance or cold-blooded indifference.
But here’s what sets my alarm bells screaming louder than a White House staffer during a subpoena: If the administration denies it knows about a policy under its own roof, then either someone’s playing from the shadows or our foreign policy is being scribbled in the margins of a napkin between golf rounds.
Either way, that’s bad for business.
Let me speak directly to Washington — and I’m projecting this louder than a Mar-a-Lago DJ set: If you want to play immigration hardball, at least have the backbone to own your pitch. Don’t turn Libya into a geopolitical landfill to hide your policy skeletons.
And to my dear readers — the game’s on, and I play to win. This isn’t just a story about migrants. It’s a window into how power distorts humanity into a bargaining chip. Washington just tried to play poker using Libya as a bluff. But Tripoli just called — and folks, they ain’t folding.
If this is America’s idea of diplomacy, maybe it’s time we reshuffle the deck.
– Mr. 47
