• dhork@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Two reasons. First, they’re not wrong: now that the man is in foreign custody, the US can do nothing more than ask for his release. The Administration cannot compel his release. They could ask forcefully, but El Salvador can still decline.

    But second, the administration did this on purpose, because it can. They set up this foreign prison precisely so that people they sent there can never be forced to come back by any US court, in direct opposition to the US Constitution. And they are doing this publically, so everyone knows that people can be “disappeared” by this government. Any foreign national is at risk of being "administrative error"ed into non-existence. And let’s face it, that means any human in the US can be, because anyone who can’t prove their citizenship status on the spot will be presumed to be a non-citizen, and even people with documentation on their person can have it confiscated and “lost”. It is straight-up intimidation of people who the President doesn’t like.

    Well, a third reason, too: if this guy ever comes back and tells his story to the press, that might be the thing that snaps all the MAGAs out of their trance. So it is not in the Administration’s interest to ever have him come back.

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      11 days ago

      Well, a third reason, too: if this guy ever comes back and tells his story to the press, that might be the thing that snaps all the MAGAs out of their trance.

      Yeah… About that. They’ll just plug their ears and go “lalalalalala, he’s got Trump derangement syndrome, he just hates Trump! Lying MSM paid him! George Soros!” There’s no reaching MAGA :(

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          It’ll definitely snap the democrats into acting, but I don’t think there’s much that the administration can do to a brown person that will snap the magas out of their brainwashing.

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        11 days ago

        I hope not. But if he was, there’s really no reason for El Salvador to keep him, is there?

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          That’s awful generous to assume they don’t dump dead bodies in the closest large ditch out there…

          Plus they don’t want a martyr

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          The facility was built to hold 20k. There’s at least 80k.

          Folks on TikTok have posted Google images results that look like blood pools from slaughterhouses.

          He is either dead, or has seen the things that make you wish you were dead.