I was just talking about that this morning: isn’t Trump just offshoring these people in the same way – and for much the same reasons – as American companies offshored industries for decades?
Is that really the way to Make America Great Again?
It seems so … Idunno … logically inconsistent.
[Yeah. I make myself chuckle]
Yup, that struck me, too, as especially awful, the kind of thing that will turn some folks off. (It may even give Rubio pause, since he’s, you know, the child of Cuban refugees.)
Interesting from a legal perspective, because actions - not just court decisions - tend to have precedential effect. So folk might be bored into servitude.
I am jealous of your ability to laugh at this stuff. I’m just filled with dread.
Haw haw. Cubans don’t give a shit about some brown kid from Venezuela or El Salvador.
I’m also wondering why we’re deporting ANY illegal immigrants when for-profit detention centers are being re-opened across the country.
https://lailluminator.com/2025/04/14/immigration-detention/
Private immigration detention is growing fast — again. The Trump administration is rapidly expanding immigration detention through billion-dollar contracts with private prison companies, including GEO Group and CoreCivic. Dozens of facilities may reopen across at least eight states, including places with long histories of abuse.
Curiouser and curiouser:
Now, what.
Just put Trump in goddamn prison.
Good point.
Has this been cited already: If it has, sorry. Hard to keep up with all the atrocities.
‘Homegrowns are next’: Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad
Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad : NPR
President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador. …
“The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You’ve got to build about five more places,” Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.
El Salvador is already holding hundreds of people in a maximum-security prison, flown from the U.S. in recent weeks after being detained for allegedly lacking legal status or having gang affiliations.
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The proposal has drawn condemnation from legal scholars across the political spectrum, who said it would represent an unprecedented encroachment on the civil liberties of U.S. citizens.
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“It’s obviously unconstitutional, obviously illegal. There’s no authority in any U.S. law to deport U.S. citizens and certainly not to imprison them in a foreign country,” said David Bier at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington, D.C.
“The problem of course is [Trump] already has illegally deported hundreds of people by just not giving the courts an opportunity to stop him,” Bier added. “I think that’s the real fear now that he is going to try to evade judicial review of deportations of U.S. citizens.”
My bold.
Duh. Ya think? 
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NPR contacted three prominent conservative legal scholars. All declined to comment. We also contacted three conservative legal think-tanks. One declined to comment, two others didn’t respond.NPR could also find no instances of GOP lawmakers in the House or Senate commenting on the idea.
Bier, at the Cato Institute, said he has been “shocked” by the lack of pushback against Trump’s proposal from Republican leaders and members of the conservative legal movement.
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mr garcia was living a peaceful life in maryland, until trump decided he shouldn’t.
No. This is exactly and precisely when Rubio is coming down so hard on other immigrants. There’s a psychology to this that I don’t pretend to understand, but he’s building a conceptual wall between himself and his situation, vs the bad people.
Trump is also the child of an immigrant. Not a refugee, but certainly an economic migrant. I imagine in his mind there’s a big racial distinction between good immigrants and bad immigrants, but I don’t pretend to understand what goes on in his head. They’re all of them dangerous, damaged people.
Trump’s administration seems adamant not to allow Garcia to return, for the time being at the risk of contempt of court.
One more reason why I am proud to bear the name of Canadian. Subsection 6(1) of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms explicitly states that “Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in and leave Canada.”
Garcia wasn’t a citizen, so, I assume, if he had been in Canada he has no rights under 6(1).
Very few rights in the Constitution are limited to citizens.
Garcia’s Constitutional rights were violated.
Did I mix him up with someone else? Wasn’t at least one US citizen deported to El Salvador?
Hey, why not do both? There’s plenty of Those People he’d be happy to lock up and throw away the key. And he can always pay for it with the billions he’s withholding from the universities that don’t kowtow to him, and the USAID shutdown, and all the other stuff he’s slashed from government payouts.
ETA:
I have the sinking feeling they don’t want to admit he’s already dead. Hoping like hell I’m wrong.
I wonder if Maryland could charge federal officials with manslaughter.
They like to pretend that they’re cutting vast amounts from the federal budget by reducing money going to the universities, US AID, and all of those cutbacks in staffing. But I’ll bet that only a tiny fraction of the overall federal budget is reduced. Meanwhile Trump is talking about increasing military spending to a trillion dollars next year.
Let me know if anything of actual consequence ever happens.