Summary
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) traveled to El Salvador to seek the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident wrongfully deported in March.
Abrego Garcia, married to a U.S. citizen with three children, was legally allowed to stay under a 2019 court order.
The Trump administration admitted his deportation was an “administrative error” but refused his return. The Supreme Court ruled against the administration 9-0.
In response, the White House launched a smear campaign against Van Hollen, framing Garcia as a gang member despite no charges or convictions.
Any American citizen is now just lucky to not run across an ICE agent having a bad day and being sent to prison for life with no trial or rights, which we were supposed to hold self evident. This isn’t America anymore. We need to take MAGA and beat it down until it’s MANA, Make America Normal Again.
Some American citizens carry, so if a so called “ICE agent” happens to try to abduct the wrong one, without refusing to identify themselves; their day will surely get worse.
Van Hollen did the right thing and it should be recognized. It’s time to stand up to this fucking regime in any way we can.
at the same time they allowed A gop clown to visit the CECOT, to get a thumbs up and a photo op.
He had to know this was going to happen.
I’m just amazed at how incredibly ballsy it is for him to go down there knowing that doing so is basically kicking a hornet’s nest of entitled fascists that have already defined themselves by ignoring orders from the court.
Reminds me of the congressman who went down to Jones Town.
Hopefully this has a better outcome
He’s just doing his job, and honoring the oath to uphold and defend the US Constitution. And for that we should applaud him, when many others have failed to do their jobs and uphold their oath.
Yeah it feels a bit like daring them to make the move and take the mask off. It takes balls and I’m all for it. Show America who we voted for, on both sides.
A court has demanded the Trump admin return this man, and their defense has been that they don’t have the power to do it. Now they publicly criticize a Senator for trying to get the man returned.
They really are stupid when it comes to undermining their own case, aren’t they?
They really are stupid when it comes to undermining their own case, aren’t they?
No, they are not. It’s a mistake to think of them as stupid, as that leads to underestimating the threat they pose.
They don’t care about winning this case in the conventional sense. Trump and his allies couldn’t care less what happens to Kilmar Abrego Garcia; what they’re after is the power to exile or imprison people without due process of law.
SCOTUS didn’t order his return. The ruling was that this is a foreign policy matter at this point and the executive branch has foreign policy power, not the court. SCOTUS rule that the Trump administration has to facilitate his return. Trump is willing to facilitate his return, but El Salvador said no, and that is the end of discussion for this matter.
Anyway, it would be ridiculously weird for El Salvador to send their own citizen to the US who initiated came to the US illegally.
The whole reason you put concentration camps in a foreign nation is to remove them from SCOTUS jurisdiction. Then you get to sit back and say, “We can’t compel a sovereign state,” while the sovereign state gets to sit back and say, “We’d gladly return these people, if only POTUS would ask.” Just one capo doing a favor for a fellow capo, somehow neither one of them able to do the right thing.
It was an administrative error. There is a valid deportation order for that man. There is also a withholding order which only applies to El Salvador. The only mistake in the deportation was the destination.
Do you have some sources for this? There’s so much emotional baggage with this its hard to get to the facts.
In my mind saying the only mistake is the destination Is an incredible understatement.
“The only issue with your heart transplant is we had a paperwork mixup and replaced your liver instead.”“I know you came in for just a vehicle safety inspection but our mechanics messed up and replaced your engine, here’s the bill.”
“We had a mix up at the hospital and the child you’ve raised for 3 years isn’t actually yours. Our bad, but there’s nothing we can do to fix it and there’s nothing we’re going to do to prevent it in the future. Good luck!”
Don’t downplay this shit and fall into dehumanizing others because they must have done something to deserve the position they are in. Don’t lose sight of empathy. Try pretending it’s a loved of yours. If one of mine fucked up and deserve punishment then fine, but there better be a fair trial and they deserve their chance to prove their innocence.
There is a valid and effective deportation order. For deportation purpose, there was no need to prove him guilty at the criminal court. If he was deported to another country, this would be completely in compliance.
You need to provide me exactly what you disagree with. Doesn’t make sense for me to provide you sources for every fact in this matter.
They’ve admitted there was an error, and are not being transparent in the extent of the error nor are they trying to correct the error. I dispute every fact in this matter because the main source I believe you are using are the people at fault for it. They aren’t even doing the common curtsey of an “internal investigation” reach around that typical police do after they’ve fuck us.
It doesn’t make sense that you wouldn’t throw out a couple random sources to your claims since it’s cut and dry in your mind. Show me the valid deportation order. Show me the evidence they used to forgo immigration court (why the fuck would he be in criminal court?) to have an expidited removal to a place a previous court said he could not go.
It’s easy to prove us stupid ass sheeple wrong, fucking do it…
I suppose you don’t have any direct evidence to support your argument either.
The reaction of these people to a senator traveling to another country to try to correct their admitted mistake is fucking disgusting.
I feel like the US is really not getting the memo here, this is fascist dictatorship swaddled in an American flag. This is what dictators do, the next steps are dismantling the other institutions and agencies that could potentially preserve the old country’s rules and laws. As they are already doing blatantly.
Guys… the US is falling. Why aren’t people organizing?
If Trump is dissing somebody, that’s a good indicator they’re alright.
IF Van Hollen manages to return safely, he’ll have to look over his shoulder for the rest of his entire life.
But I’m not convinced he’s going to come back.
We’re not at the stage where sitting senators are being murdered or disappeared.
