It is of course not impossible for the regime to negotiate with El Salvador. Leaving anyone there is a crime, but to send someone without due process is yet another crime on the part of the administration.
I absolutely agree. The reality is that the administration paid El Salvador to extra-legally imprison these human beings, and the regime there was happy to take the innocent people and the money. The administration would probably have to pay to get them out. But it's we, the taxpayers, who are funding this travesty. Just like we fund so many terrible things.
The round-up and imprisonment of gang members in El Salvador is credited with drastic reductions in crime in that country. But no one should be placed in a maximum security prison -- let alone the CECOT prison in El Salvador -- without due process and without having been convicted of a violent crime.
For the Administration to say they cannot do anything to correct this mistake is a lie. Everyone knows that the Secretary of State could retrieve anyone mistakenly sent from the US to that prison, by simply making a request to the El Salvadoran government. But for that to happen, the Secretary of State would have to be honorable. That's the catch.
yes and, the swift deportation, sans due process, to torture prisons of even legal immigrants is also designed to send a message to all of us: none of us are safe
agree 100% -- and it's designed to terrify anyone who's paying attention.
disappearing people -- as with the case of legal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was swept up and deported "mistakenly," the regime admits (while saying oh well, can't do anything about it) to the El Salvador megaprison
fwiw, I've developed a bad habit of muting my outrage about the inhumane treatment of immigrants -- those legally here and those not -- because I spend a fair amount of time weekly trying to get through to the maga voters I grew up with in West Texas.
The regime's terrorizing and disappearings of non-white people doesn't always reach self-described "christian" (not actually Christian) maga voters.
Pointing out the joyfully malicious firings of veterans & dismantling of the VA, the attacks on farmers, and the growing risk of big jumps in inflation and a recession -- those things, maybe, will get through.
We need to get the unjustly incarcerated people back from El Salvador.
It is of course not impossible for the regime to negotiate with El Salvador. Leaving anyone there is a crime, but to send someone without due process is yet another crime on the part of the administration.
My heart breaks for the desperation of the families and the sheer villainy of the administration
I absolutely agree. The reality is that the administration paid El Salvador to extra-legally imprison these human beings, and the regime there was happy to take the innocent people and the money. The administration would probably have to pay to get them out. But it's we, the taxpayers, who are funding this travesty. Just like we fund so many terrible things.
WE only paid to extra-legally hold them there for 1 yr. WE will either have to pay again in another year for the ES govt to keep them, or?
The round-up and imprisonment of gang members in El Salvador is credited with drastic reductions in crime in that country. But no one should be placed in a maximum security prison -- let alone the CECOT prison in El Salvador -- without due process and without having been convicted of a violent crime.
For the Administration to say they cannot do anything to correct this mistake is a lie. Everyone knows that the Secretary of State could retrieve anyone mistakenly sent from the US to that prison, by simply making a request to the El Salvadoran government. But for that to happen, the Secretary of State would have to be honorable. That's the catch.
yes and, the swift deportation, sans due process, to torture prisons of even legal immigrants is also designed to send a message to all of us: none of us are safe
First they came...
Especially agregious is the swift transferring of detainees to another state where their families and lawyers cannot help them.
agree 100% -- and it's designed to terrify anyone who's paying attention.
disappearing people -- as with the case of legal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was swept up and deported "mistakenly," the regime admits (while saying oh well, can't do anything about it) to the El Salvador megaprison
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/salvador-man-maryland-deported-mistake-00262870
fwiw, I've developed a bad habit of muting my outrage about the inhumane treatment of immigrants -- those legally here and those not -- because I spend a fair amount of time weekly trying to get through to the maga voters I grew up with in West Texas.
The regime's terrorizing and disappearings of non-white people doesn't always reach self-described "christian" (not actually Christian) maga voters.
Pointing out the joyfully malicious firings of veterans & dismantling of the VA, the attacks on farmers, and the growing risk of big jumps in inflation and a recession -- those things, maybe, will get through.