The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up…
But in Monday’s court filing, attorneys for the government admitted that the Salvadoran man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was deported accidentally. “Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the government told the court. Trump lawyers said the court has no ability to bring him back now that Abrego Garcia is in Salvadoran custody.
These deportation stories are getting crazier and crazier.
That prison shouldn’t even be allowed to exist and we’re subsidizing it. Great. If we were a country with a moral center, this scandal and “kids in cages” would simply be intolerable.
I think the point is that if the camps are on U.S. soil, people might be uncomfortable and complain. It’s better to have them out of sight, out of mind. I imagine the camps will be concentrated in whatever hellhole countries bid the lowest for them. Much, much easier to disappear people without all those pesky laws and shit.
It’s so bad that I can hardly blame you for that. But they do want the existence of off-shore horror prisons to be kept in mind. I never post articles saying that the administration is fascist, or have a lookist aspect, but this was just so bad and true:
Here’s a good Bulwark article about the use of tattoos in identifying gang members.
Apparently, there is confusion around a particular tattoo…..Hasta La Muerte (until death) is a slogan of MS13 and other gangs - this is a tattoo that gang members frequently sport.
But there is a popular reggaeton artist - Anuel AA, a Trump supporter with millions of followers - that has popularized the phrase Real Hasta La Muerte (Real Until Death, also the title of one of his albums). This tattoo is popular amongst his fans and followers.
Apparently the deporters have a history of confusing the two. Other tattoos allegedly associated with these gangs are “roses and predatory felines”, leading me to wonder if there are any face-eating leopard tattoos in the mix.
The Trump administration inadvertently revealed on Monday that it is attempting to trap Venezuelan migrants in a catch-22 that would effectively block them from challenging their deportation and detention in an El Salvador prison.
‘You can only challenge your detention in a foreign prison from within the United States. You’ll need to challenge your detention so that you can be returned to the United States, where you will then be able to challenge your detention.’