Garrison Davis

That doesn't matter for this story.

On the 2nd of March 2025, the illegitimate government of Myanmar announced that it had received two individual deportees, one on each flight.

In April and May of that year, they received more.

So we now believe that 22 people had been deported up to this Monday, and more people, it appears, from this flight have been deported on Monday.

The last deportation flight resulted in the deportees being detained and tortured by Myanmar's brutal military intelligence.

The flight was aboard a jet owned by Journey Aviation, and it returned via Sydney to the United States of America.

The United States has been trying to cancel the temporary protective status for Burmese people for some time, but even with a TPS, it's worth noting that some people who have been convicted of crimes, and for other exceptions, can still be deported.

The junta said in a press release last year, quote, the Myanmar government is cooperating with the relevant U.S.

federal entities in verifying and accepting deportees to Myanmar.

This and some other things the Trump administration have done, they've tried to characterize it as a de facto recognition of their right to rule the country.

Yeah.

Very clearly, the reason that they're talking about these deportations is because they're flexing that, hey, the U.S.

government is talking to us.

Mm-hmm.

This has downstream effects, right?

I think the world is largely not taking that seriously, but nonetheless, they are using that, whether it's for external or internal signaling.

The last time this happened, according to Myanmar Now, the deportees were taken straight to the Ong Ta Pia interrogation center.

And last time it was mostly ethnically Karen or Chin people.

So these are not people of the majority ethnicity, right?

The majority ethnicity, the ethnicity that comprises most of the armed forces is, or certainly most of the high ranks of the armed forces are Burma people.