I just wanted to stress that the problem is the treatment. People are often ok with treating prisoners badly.

horror stories about people being caught up wrongly in the deportation

You mean people who are caught up rightfully in deportation are treated with dignity, right? Right?

Joke aside, this is a good question.

Smithers, is that you?

There is an entire instance for the Midwest. Have a look to check if they already have an active community

https://midwest.social/

Yanis Varoufakis’ theory of what is happening

As a map some days ago showed, Canada, Greenland, Panama, probably Israel, maybe even Ukrain - it’s all about shipping lanes.

All that effort makes sense if there is the believe that global trade will increase and that the USA will still be relevant when the center of the global population is in Asia.

So extinction is not the goal but could be an accepted risk.