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"He is asking the court to order the Trump administration to ask for Abrego Garcia’s return and, if necessary, to withhold payment to the Salvadoran government,
by Scipio_Afri 1y ago
"He is asking the court to order the Trump administration to ask for Abrego Garcia’s return and, if necessary, to withhold payment to the Salvadoran government, which says it’s charging the United States $6 million a year to jail U.S. deportees."
$6 MILLION A YEAR?! For how many deportees?
>Abrego Garcia’s family has had no contact with him since he was sent to the megaprison in El Salvador, known as the CECOT. His wife spotted her husband in news photographs released by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on the morning of March 16, after a U.S. District Judge had told the Trump administration to halt the flights.
>“Oopsie,” Bukele wrote on social media, taunting the judge.
The El Salvadoran president sounds more like a dictatorial sociopath..
- anon7000 1y agoWhy the fuck are jailing deportees in other countries anyways.
- anal_reactor 1y agoBecause it's fun. I'm not joking. This is the real answer.
- tobyhinloopen 1y agoCruelty is the point. Cruelty is what the American people want. The American people are not victims of a dictatorship, they voted for this.
- matwood 1y agoIt's the first line in the article: but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up. The point is if they disappear people quickly enough, they think this argument will fly.
- anal_reactor 1y ago> The El Salvadoran president sounds more like a dictatorial sociopath.. Not his problem. He doesn't have any authority over the US legal system, the only thing he's doing is "renting out" prison cells. It's up to the US fix its legal procedures, it shouldn't be the responsibility of El Salvador to question the legality and morality of who exactly gets sent to prison.
- tastyface 1y agoPeople who laugh at innocents getting punished are exactly the same as those who slice up animals for fun. Bukele pretends to be a savior, but he's a monster.
- anal_reactor 1y agoI think it's easy for us to judge the situation. El Salvador was in absolutely miserable state, so I can really buy the argument that desperate times call for desperate measures. Truth is, most people living there do support his policies.
- tastyface 1y agoHe knows an innocent man is going into his hell prison but he laughs about it anyway. What does this say about his character?