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Let's do some fact checking.
THEY said he was wrongly deported. Repeatedly. And refused to do anything about it.
Our jackass Attorney General shared a link recently that said he had "no criminal background" and there's been no actual evidence that shows he was in MS-13.
And while I'm not sure of his technical, official status, I would say somebody who was allowed to stay in the United States by a judge because of dangers back home, isn't consider an illegal alien any more, but a political refugee who has asylum in our country.
You have to wonder if this whole thing is just a petty attempt at retribution by Trump, because this guy was allowed to stay in the country the first time.
I think it's simpler than that. Bringing him back would show they did something wrong, and that's obviously impossible, because he's the second coming of Prosperity Gospel Jesus.
Simpler even than that. It would mean someone gets to tell them no.
It would also mean we'd have a witness able to report on the prison's conditions. And the administration can say he's lying, but when there's no other source of information about it, people are going to hear him out.
Yes. Fascism is about normalizing treating outsiders as non-human. To do this you expand your crimes step by step. Justifying and normalizing each step. And you don't have to do it for long. You just move onto the next worse thing quickly.
There was a really good, almost poetic, video that covered this just as Trump took office. It's been a good reminder for me to keep my compass and perspective.
https://youtu.be/0YFdwfNh5vs
It's even worse than that: he's testing the boundaries.
He's testing if he can get away with deporting an innocent man. He's testing if he can ignore the Supreme Court without consequences. He's testing if the Salvadorian president will stand firm and be his good little concentration camp boy.
If they are successful, it means they can imprison ANYONE they want to.
If they are successful, our Bill of Rights is about to come crashing down.
If they are successful, our Bill of Rights has come crashing down. Past tense!
He has a legal status similar to refugee, but not technically the same because he didn’t apply for asylum within a year of entering.
So yeah, not an illegal alien. Legal resident.
To get more technical, he had the kind of residency that has a higher standard than being an asylum seeker that prohibits them from being deported to the country they are from.
El Salvador was the ONLY place he was not allowed to be deported to.
His official status wasn't asylum per se, but his status was he could be deported ANYWHERE BUT EL SALVADOR if the courts deemed fit. Which he was not deported through the courts, and they sent him to El fucking Salvador, the one place it would be illegal to send him to.
This whole situation has me so pissed off, this country sucks.
They only say he was wrongly deported (kidnapped) under oath.
Like hell. Especially since they're talking openly about kidnapping citizens and political opponents and sending them to the same fate.
The only incompetence was not having their messaging figured out beforehand.