How is sending someone out of the US to be imprisoned in another country not deporting them from the US? To imprison them outside the US they have to first expel them from the US. In other words: deport them.

Only someone ungrounded from reality would claim that literally deporting people is not deportation.

This administration has absolutely shown they will deport anyone for any reason. This is just the temperature being raised slowly so us frogs don’t notice.

Reference: just read the news. There are multiple stories about multiple people with the same outcome. No due process.

Regardless of what it is called, it is unconstitutional and illegal; however, that does not seem to matter to this administration. Trump is currently defying a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling that he facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the US. His administration has even admitted Garcia was deported in error but still isn't doing anything about it. Now we have ICE holding provable US citizens. Maybe with that context you can understand why some might be concerned that citizens will be "accidentally" disappeared.

No, ignorance of current events except what you encounter incidentally without intent and structure is not a "feature", unless your goal is to be an easily-led sheep.

> I see your point, but that’s not deporting, it would be outsourcing the prison.

It's not merely outsourcing (a term which encompasses what occurs with domestic private prisons) if the US doesn't retain the same full control as it would over domestic prisons, including responsiveness to US court orders regarding innocence, conditions, etc., the avoidance of which is overtly the point of the Trump eagerness. It is much more like deportation than anything else, though, especially where the "prisons" are, in fact, labor camps, you could probably make a case that it is simply reviving the slave trade, rather than deportation.