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- usa@lemmy.ml
- usa@midwest.social
The president of El Salvador said in a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Monday that he would not order the return of a Maryland man who was deported in error to a Salvadoran mega-prison.
“The question is preposterous,” Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday, where he was welcomed by Trump and spoke with the president and members of his cabinet. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it.”
He added: “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States,” and said he would not release the man, Kilmar Abrego García, into El Salvador either. “I’m not very fond of releasing terrorists into the country.”
The comments came a day after the Trump administration claimed it is not legally obligated to secure the return of the Abrego García, despite the US supreme court ruling that the administration should “facilitate” bringing him back.
Well, fuck. This is such petty bullshit when these two guys could easily get him home to his wife. Once again, the cruelty is the whole point. Not law, not safety, just Snidely Whiplash on steroids.
As commonly happens with this kind of Overton window engineering, they’ve successfully shifted everyone’s focus to the fact that this guy was “wrongly” deported, and thus obscuring the facts that (a) pretty much everyone else they are deporting was also wrongly “deported”, in general didn’t do anything wrong either (b) sending someone to stay forever in an extrajudicial torture prison is not “deporting” them.
And also deportation involves a judge’s order. This is just kidnapping.
The kidnappings will continue until everyone who dares to claim that Palestinians are humans with rights are gone.
Next up? U.S. citizens. “Oh, we can’t do anything about that.”