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simpledinosaur's avatar

They want us to know that they know it was an error: it means the same thing can happen to ANYONE, and their response when challenged by other authorities (i.e. the courts, mainly) will be, "Whaddya gonna do about it anyway?" They are acting in deliberate, open defiance of the law and the Constitution.

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

This is one where we need Jimmy Carter to go visit.

Hopefully someone will take up his Lord's work for him.

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Andrea's avatar

I recognize people from the Greenbelt protest. I was near the woman with the pink poster board sign covered in plastic. That was Tuesday. Yesterday we had our rally for Chris Van Hollen and Kilmar in Silver Spring. If only Nazi Bondi could be tossed in jail- after due process

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Hannah's avatar

Well I finally felt sane enough to read the latest in this saga. Thanks for this.

Of course the El Salvadoran VP said nope, not gonna let you see him.

JFC.

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Trux Mint In Box's avatar

Someone needs to challenge Leavitt on this shit instead of playing reporter games for access and decorum.

Like “How can you talk about this man like this without any proof? How dare you push lies in front of us!”

They might get booted but at least they fucking tried.

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Andrea's avatar

Not them- never and she will be on Fox when she leaves the WH

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

So we are now the Soviet Union, and Trump just sends deportees to a gulag and the US Congress says it is powerless to stop him and the courts have a concept of contempt? Tariffs a re one thing. Sending people to hell is not what this country is supposed to be allowed. to do. I do not care if trump is the second incarnation of Jesus Christ, it is defining the USA as a. reincarnation of the worst offenses of the past. I want my government to stop this man, by whatever means necessary.

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asmallmacropod 🐨's avatar

Another terrifying abduction in MD by a grinning nazi with an axe.

https://bsky.app/profile/zen4ever2us.bsky.social/post/3lmvoglcejc2i

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Andrea's avatar

I saw this video - Westminster- my son went to college there for a year ( but he is 39 now)

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Hannah's avatar

I feel like crap. I will read this tomorrow or yesterday.

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mitch's avatar

America has died . Politicians are running to trump .like flies at a dump . Ones that go other way get put on his list for jail . With no way to make bail . We all need to protest now make it hard and loud , Or we will die in his bull shit . Great reporting

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Enter Ranting's avatar

Bottom line: this Kilmar Garcia situation is a disaster for the Trump Administration, and they have nobody but themselves to blame. It is NOT going away, no matter how many tantrums they throw. The more Bondi, Miller, Leavitt, and Trump lie and rail against Garcia, the deeper they dig, and the more tenacious the press gets, because Americans are genuinely concerned about this case. And the press smells a moneymaker.

1. Trump stupidly defied a judge's order not to deport Garcia.

2. Trump admitted they fucked up (why admit to the "mistake?" Why not just lie about it?)

3. Trump says he's POWERLESS to deal with a foreign leader. Really? I thought he was the master negotiator, but it turns out he's a feckless weakling?

4. Garcia now has inside knowledge of the conditions at CECOT.

I suppose if you're incompetent enough to send an innocent man to a slave prison in El Salvador, without the ability to get him released, maybe don't deal with El Salvadorian slave prisons in the first place.

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Sherry's avatar

There is photographic evidence of Rump’s band of thugs with Bukele prior to him winning the presidency. IN defiance also of the Hatch act. No nothing fishy there at all. Money has it that some money would up in someone’s Central American leader pocket.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

UGH. Marcie, sorry you had to deal with even writing this story.

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Corvid Opera's avatar

Fuck yeah. Whatever Teh Regime’s response is, judges who go by the oaths they swore should still do all the lawful stuffs.

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Bupkus231's avatar

How are legal deportation procedures part of "foreign policy"? I can't help feeling that all this shit the FFOTUS admin is flinging around about "foreign policy" in this case is an attempt at distracting from the way they fucked up with Abrego Garcia

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

Also serving as a distraction from both the Signal Chat debacle AND the fact that the DOGE illegal rampage continues...

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Menotsure's avatar

Nobody who could, or would reveal what goes on in that hell hole ever leaves. Bukele screams corruption as much as anybody in Trump's sphere of influence. I have no knowledge about Garcia or any of the others, but it has been said that "dead men tell no tales", and that "if you don't want to know, don't ask".

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