The U.S. government attorney also struggled to provide any information about the exact whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite Thursday’s ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that the Trump administration must bring him back.
“Where is he and under whose authority?” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis asked in a Maryland courtroom.
“I’m not asking for state secrets,” she said. “All I know is that he’s not here. The government was prohibited from sending him to El Salvador, and now I’m asking a very simple question: where is he?”
Saw somebody suggest this last night and it seems like a very real possibility. Why else would they stall on returning him? It’s not like him telling everyone his experience will make the administration care about the terrible conditions there. Those conditions are the point.
It’s possible that people get thrown into that prison without tracking who or where they are once they get in.
“Look, we know they’re never coming out anyway, keeping track of who we throw in there would be a waste of time and money” sounds like exactly the kind of “efficiency” this administration is known for
That’s another possibility, and also possibly why they’re trying to say that trips to that prison are always life sentences. That’s the only way not having tracking makes any kind of sense at all. But realistically, every prison, even a Salvadorian super jail, is going to have some kind of tracking, or they’d never know if they lost a prisoner.
Just assign them a number when they enter without their identity assigned to it. Use a random ID with no date associated to it.
Why specifically no date assigned? Also, what you’ve described is a UUIDv4.
They can track the date he was admitted and know he’s one of 15 people admitted in a range if they have an ID but no name.
I know it’s a small tangent, but if you use UUIDv7 (and I think there’s another version as well), you can resolve a date from the ID, as the creation time of the ID is used to help build the ID itself.
That seems like something the Trump government wouldn’t know and then somehow time stamp something devastating to the administration.
Oh, maybe! UUIDv7 is generally preferred over v4 at scale because the time-driven nature of the ID supports indexing (basically, sorting) on the ID more readily than v4. That said, v7 is sometimes apparently considered a security risk because it can leak info (creation time), though the consequences of that are -usually- negligible
Yeah, tbh, they’re trying to say these are all life sentences. It got me thinking: if El Salvador believes the US will never ask for the prisoners back, what’s their incentive not to just kill these people and take the whole check to the bank? I know this guy in particular was seeking refuge from El Salvadorian gangs in the US, so there’s a special incentive for him to end up dead, but I really don’t see why they wouldn’t just kill all the US prisoners if they really believe that the US will never ask for them back AND wants them in jail for life AND aren’t demanding some kind of tracking. There’s literally no reason at all not to just kill em and keep cashing the checks. If anyone comes knocking just say “oh shit, I guess they got away” or “we must have transferred them and lost the paperwork, sorry”
About the only incentive is that they are used as what amounts to slave labor. Gang members are put away for life and do hard labor. People who did crime but not violent crime are put away for years and are given “skills” training for when they get out.
Even then that’s kinda dubious. You don’t want your dangerous folks out there actually doing kind of important stuff that either risks them escaping or sabotaging or fucking up. There’s only so many useful jobs you can have maximum security prisoners doing, and they don’t tend to be ones that create a lot of value. I imagine that much of it is digging ditches and filling them back up again.