Originally published at: Inside The Fight To Return The Other Men Trump Sent To CECOT
When the Trump administration sent more than 200 Venezuelans to an El Salvador detention camp last month, nearly half of them were subject to standard immigration law. That, at least, is what federal officials contend: while the administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to dubiously justify sending 137 detainees to El Salvador, more than 100…
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If the questions being addressed in these lawsuits were purely academic, it would be fascinating.
The fact that in a matter of months the current administration has sought out and repeatedly made use of tactics that (while obviously morally repugnant) lack clear legal definition is a demonstration of its desire to weaponize the law against the citizenry. Justice delayed is justice denied is all the more true when the administration is actively seeking decisions through appeals all the way to SCotUS which fly in the face of the ideals the nation should be attempting to live up to.
The attorneys willing to stand up in court and defend such tactics should face disciplinary hearings and disbarment.
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There is a simple solution, stop paying El Salvador and the believe me these men will be on the next plane back here.
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The Trump Administration, better known as Thugocracy, Inc.
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Going back to at least mid-March, immigrants in ICE custody disappear, including from the ICE online locator.
And it continues
Even yesterday
He disappeared after detention. Now ICE is silent on the fate of Venezuelan man
Interestingly enough, this has been going on since 2021 at least - when Biden tightened the border (no, really, just never reported) and invested more on border security than president Trump, with a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and ICE combined of $26 billion. (No, really. just never…you get it). Detentions skyrocketed. And people in detention were disappeared.
It seems like ICE has been developing this skill for some time now.
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This kind of thing is very useful in user testing software. You get creative people attempting to break the program by working the user interface in unanticipated, often apparently stupid ways.
Sadly, the US laws and Constitution are not easily changed, like lines of code are, and rather than being a systematic attempt to learn by experience and improve the software, there’s just haphazard, knee jerk, and over compensatory modifications at rare intervals. Mostly, no lessons are ever learned, except by the “black team”, which is part of the coding team and wants to preserve its back doors.
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If Stephen Miller is still in charge then these men detained in El Salvador will be put on a boat, not a plane.
This also brings up the question of what to do with folks who seem to be now uncountried, as in their may not be safe if returned to the country where they are born. And this is problem that doesn’t just affect the US, there are also troubles simmering in Europe.
All this will be made worse by climate change. I think there are climate change refugees already trying to find a new home. So did Gene Roddenberry, or any other dystopian authors, show us what can happen, and solve this problem?
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Has anyone seen the contract between the US and El Salvador? That would help resolve a lot of the questions surrounding these deportations/removals/abductions. Of course, it’s probably being treated as classified because of the alleged national security implications under the AEA.
If that’s the case, let’s hope Pete Hegseth gets his hands on it. Then we’ll see it immediately.
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What’s unusual here is that there is this standing contractual agreement between El Salvador and the United States to accept seemingly anyone into this prison at the behest of the U.S. federal government”
…hmmm, that includes any USA citizen…
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The “if” and the “is” in that sentence are unnecessary.
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The question should be: Is there a legal contract? Or is it just a memo with bullet points?
I don’t think Rubio allowed Pete to even see ‘in camera’ the so called agreement.
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Fox news guest tells the cold hard truth about tariffs. Kellyanne Conway looks frozen. video at link
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Now, I wonder why the Haitians stopped eating our pets?
And did that Caravan of Immigrants get lost on the way here?
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If only …
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My day dream that will never happen. Trump gets hauled out of his motorcade on the way to Mar-a-lago. He’s questioned by a severely near sighted agent who gets convinced trump is faking it. So he is trundled, while hooded and cuffed, onto a plane. He ends up in CECOT for a month while the mess is sorted out… I can still dream…
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