Democratic lawmakers led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen say they are willing to go to El Salvador to seek the release of a man who the Justice Department says it mistakenly deported there — a plan that has gained steam after the country’s president said during a visit to the White House that he would not send the man back to the U.S.
At first I dismissed this idea as bullshit, but at this point, wouldn’t it be so much fucking easier to just bring him back? There has to be some reason they aren’t, and I sure don’t believe the “they don’t want to set a precedent” line floating around.
Idk for sure, just speculating, but I think they don’t care about the actual individual. It’s not about him.
They’re asserting power, defying the supreme court. It’s that simple. This is authoritarianism. This is how it plays out.
Again, speculation. They start with these types of acts, if they succeed their way, disobeying law gets normalized, and they can continue and do even worse.
If I’m correct, checks and balances is falling, or has fallen. This is what authoritarianism looks like.
I don’t even know what would be “best” for Kilmar considering he came to America to flee gang violence in El Salvador so…
On the one hand: It is very probable that they just don’t have any records. And it is finding one guy based on a photo of him from a month or two back in a giant mass of “hispanic men”. So it is going “block” by “block” to line everyone up and compare them to a photo. Keeping in mind that his appearance has likely changed due to having his head shaved, stress/terror and, likely, violence.
And the other is that he is probably dead. Because he was thrown in a “maximum security” concentration camp with many of the gangs he fled from.
There’s a reason he had fled to the US and was protected with asylum, and a reason that the US was not supposed to deport him back to El Salvador. He was probably dead as soon as he was sent back.
Yeah like wouldn’t it just be best (from their perspective) to get it out of the news cycle, come up with better legal bullshit, and continue the concentration camp deportations in a month or so?
I mean they’re talking about revoking the citizenship of prisoners and trying to naturalize the land in El Salvador so they won’t have to answer to anyone because it will be considered “domestic” transfer. They could just bring him back and then ship him back when they do that.