Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia will try to persuade a federal judge in Tennessee on Thursday to throw out human smuggling charges against him.
Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation has galvanized both sides of the immigration debate, claims that the criminal prosecution is vindictive, pushed by officials from President Donald Trump’s administration to punish him after they were forced to bring him back to the United States.
While Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran citizen, a court order from 2019 prevents him from being deported to that country. That’s because an immigration judge determined he faced danger in El Salvador from a gang that had threatened his family. Abrego Garcia, 30, immigrated to the U.S. illegally as a teenager but has an American wife and child. He has lived and worked in Maryland for years under the supervision of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
He agreed to be deported to Costa RIca, the safest country in latin america, belize is ok too I hear, and costa rica agreed to take him, but that administration wants to send him to a foreign third country out of sheer ill will.
Because they lied about him for political reasons now they want to hurt him as much as possible to justify it I guess.
Belize is safe for now. Tech billionaires are trying to create their mythical libertarian-land there, their vaunted extraterritorial city-states where they don’t have to obey federal laws or anything but the laws they set themselves.
Oh shit, yeah ten, fifteen years ago I read they were advertising to westerners to entice people to retire or move out there, that it was relatively cheap, and safe, and they had communities of other westerners, and they speak english as an official language, as they were a british colony, I think they are still in the commonwealth even.
So it’s not surprising their advertising campaigns got the attention of the technofascists and wanting to build their own little fordlandias. Little company towns, where if you got fired your life could be instantly unpended with total ruin.
It sucks too because many of us have wanted to do planned cities, to pool investment, and set up cities built around some industry to make money, with central planning, to live with a higher standard of living with less cost. No cars for everyday use unless you need it for work that uses it, central heating and cooling stuff, like geothermal heat exchangers and efficient adding of heat to that 50 degree year round temperature you can start out with going just 6’ underground, growing a lot of your own food, cutting big corporations out of everything basically, internet cooperatives, etc.
But we can still do that if we ever organize, it’s just got a bad name from these guys, as with anything good, like reforming the bureaucracy, the billionaires co opt it to make it worse or achieve ill ends.
The tech billionaires are actually morons, if they got their utopia they would be destroyed by it. Free markets don’t work without controls, never have, never will. And Ayn Rand wrote those books on a meth binge, went broke later in life, and lived off social security in her old age. If she got her way she would have died penniless in the street.