Inside One Venezuelan's Last-Minute Escape From a Flight to CECOT

Originally published at: Inside One Venezuelan’s Last-Minute Escape From a Flight to CECOT

The way attorney Jamie Diez describes it, visiting the El Valle Detention Center was usually straightforward. After making the 50-minute drive from Brownsville, he told TPM, he would usually stroll in unannounced. Officials would, after a wait, bring Diez, an immigration attorney, whichever client he was seeing that day. He was so used to El…

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First question-
Isn’t Venezuela not accepting returns from the US?
Second question-
Which legal eagle has mapped out this blueprint to use the Alien Enemies Act? Is it someone from The Heritage Foundation, or some other RW cesspool?

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There were law enforcement officers in riot gear. A helicopter flew above. Detainees were being rushed onto buses.

Time is money. Here there’s lots of the latter.

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“Rule of law”? Yet another concept beyond the limited thinking of this administration*. And the word “thinking” is carrying a heavy load there.

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They waste so much time and money trying to avoid having to just tell the truth.

It’s mind boggling, they’re just a bunch of ignorant cowboys, they’ve no concept about how just follow well established procedures and you get what you want 99% of the time. That’s why Biden and Obama were able to deport so many people, I would imagine.

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Similarly…

…to edit out Trump.

Epstein was Donald’s long-time friend.

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On VE Day (May 8), tv host Jeanine Pirro was appointed interim US attorney for DC and Kanye West released his new music video “Heil Hitler”. Still think this is normal?

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Russia’s hybrid war on the west sometimes involves individuals from third countries to add a layer of deniability. Unfortunately, using cargo ships in the midst of a US-China trade war doesn’t go down too well with management. Newnew Polar Bear captain, a mainland national, arrested in Hong Kong.