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TIL: The Bisbee Deportation, the illegal kidnapping and deportation of ~1,300 striking miner, their supporters, and citizen bystanders who were loaded onto trains and sent to New Mexico (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] xylol@leminal.space 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Arizona and Cochise County never prosecuted the case, and in United States v. Wheeler (1920), the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution by itself does not give the federal government the power to stop kidnappings, even ones involving moving abductees across state lines on federally-regulated railroads.

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