#michaelsmerconish on #CNN
Regarding #immigrants being deported to #ElSalvador.
"Wrong on the merits, right on the #Politics , for now."
#Republicans
#fail
#election2026
#2026election

Report: "Just Do Something"

"Sen. Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and showed what can be accomplished when Dems act beyond the bare minimum."

Trump attacked Van Hollen as a “GRANDSTANDER!!!”

The once little-known senator is now a symbol of what it looks like to challenge this president by simply doing something.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/chris-van-hollen-kilmar-abrego-garcia-democrats-fight-trump/

#ChrisVanHollen #KilmarAbregoGarcia #uspol #fascism #racism #trump #cecot #elsalvador .

Treffen mit Abgeschobenem: Van Hollen fordert Konsequenzen und erklärt "Margarita"-Glas

Was folgt aus dem Treffen mit dem unrechtmäßig abgeschobenen Salvadorianer? US-Senator Van Hollen fordert von der Trump-Regierung Konsequenzen. Und er wirft dem salvadorianischen Präsidenten vor, die Menschen mit gestellten Bildern zu täuschen.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/usa-el-salvador-van-hollen-migrationspolitik-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#USA #ElSalvador #Migrationspolitik #Trump #ÁbregoGarcía

People could make it more expensive to start warehousing people in gulags for the US than it is worth. Bukele need to feel the loss of export incomes.

Politics with the purse.

https://www.worldstopexports.com/el-salvadors-top-10-exports/

Make clear that people are no goods to be marketed.

#ElSalvador #Tradepartners #CECOT #Coffee #Economics #Morals #gulags #concentrationCamps #HumanTrafficking #Trump #Bukele #CrimesAgainstHumanity

Amazing truth & fact filled press conference from Sen #VanHollen on his visit to #ElSalvador & the ILLEGAL #rendition of #KilmarAbregoGarcia by #Trump

#law #contempt #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88_htG1N-1w

A federal judge said in an order Wednesday that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt over deportation flights it sent to #ElSalvador

> U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found "the Government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-finds-probable-cause-hold-trump-administration-contempt-deportat-rcna201569

In Russia, Putin sends political prisoners to Siberian gulags.

In America, Trump and his administration send prisoners to gulags in El Salvador.

#trump #republicans #fascism #putin #elsalvador #russia

Judge finds cause to hold #Trump administration in criminal contempt for violating deportation order

https://apnews.com/article/trump-deportees-el-salvador-contempt-boasberg-da282511ac6f5c8dd19af620995ca440

A federal judge says he's found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court and could seek officials’ prosecution for violating his orders last month to turn around planes carrying deportees to an #ElSalvador prison.

Inhaltswarnung: COCET, Graphic image Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

“United States Emperor plans to send undesirable citizens to Central American gulags: this signals a worrying development on the slippy slope towards fascism”

by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack

“Be under no illusion. This is the endgame of imperial decay: when even punishment becomes outsourced, when the world’s so-called greatest democracy auctions its people to the highest bidder”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/united-states-emperor-plans-to-send

#Press #US #Imperium #Emperor #Trump #Gulag #ElSalvador #Citizens

How long before Kamala Harris / Hunter Biden / AOC are sent to El Salvador?

Genuinely thinking that anyone that stands up to or has stood against this megalomaniac aren't safe right now (inclusive of family and associates).

#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #USPol #USPolitics #Bukele #Trump #ElSalvador

🤣Bloomberg gets BruTal😎

The White House made it clear during a visit from Nayib Bukele... president of #ElSalvador, that it plans to let Kilmar Abrego Garcia rot in the brutal prison to which — as the administration has admitted in court — he was deported by mistake.

The spectacle in the Oval Office on Monday was chilling. President Donald Trump warmly greeted Bukele and called him a “great friend.”...

"US Citizens Could Be on a Plane to El Salvador Next"
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-15/trump-bukele-showed-disdain-for-deported-maryland-man #Deportations

#Trump ist ein rechtskräftig verurteilter Verbrecher in nachgewiesenen 34 Fällen, er müsste also folglich ausgewiesen werden #ElSalvador
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Trump will auch US-Straftäter nach El Salvador schicken

Die Abschiebung mutmaßlicher Gangmitglieder aus den USA nach El Salvador könnte erst der Anfang gewesen sein. Bei einem Treffen der Präsidenten beider Länder zeigt sich: Trump und Bukele liegen auf einer Linie - und wollen mehr. Von C. Kühntopp.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/trump-el-salvador-102.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#USA #Trump #ElSalvador #Bukele

"President Nayib Bukele of #ElSalvador said that he would not return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported from the US and sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
“Of course I’m not going to do it,” Mr. Bukele said... (regarding) Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whose case is at the heart of a legal battle that has gone to the Supreme Court..."; 'My shitass corrupt regime is getting PAID for it.'

US/El Salvador Won’t Return Wrongly Deported Man
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/14/us/trump-news-tariffs
https://archive.ph/zXrhV

El Salvador bleibt hart bei Fall irrtümlicher Abschiebung

Das Schicksal eines irrtümlich aus den USA in ein Gefängnis in El Salvador abgeschobenen Mannes bleibt ungewiss. Das Weiße Haus und Präsident Bukele lehnen eine Rückführung ab - trotz eines Urteils des Obersten US-Gerichts.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/trump-el-salvador-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#USA #Trump #ElSalvador

Noting that the ghoul and war profiteer Erik Prince wants to cash in on Trump's attacks on immigrants by vastly expanding deportations and moving deported persons to a prison or prisons in Central American, Jim Stewartson says,

"El Salvador was also the first nation to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021. Note this confluence of the PayPal Mafia and Erik Prince is not a coincidence."

#Trump #ElSalvador #ErikPrince #PeterThiel #bitcoin #immigration
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https://www.mind-war.com/p/bukele-modeling-the-north-american

Like many folks who study how fascist governments operate, I've been quick to warn people that given the blatantly illegal methods by which the Trump regime has targeted migrants, foreign visitors to the United States, and student anti-genocide protestors legally in the country, it was only a matter of time before Downmarket Mussolini tried to expand those tactics to target dissidents born in the United States. After watching the US Attorney General call Tesla vandalism "domestic terrorism" yesterday, and reading Trump's unhinged social media rants about shipping folks caught vandalizing Tesla cars or dealerships to El Salvador, I think it's safe to say we're already here.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-tesla-el-salvador

'Delusional' Trump Threatens to Send Tesla Vandals to Prison for 20 Years... in El Salvador

"People that get caught sabotaging Teslas will stand a very good chance of going to jail for up to twenty years, and that includes the funders," Trump stated overnight, adding in all caps: "WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!!"

Several hours later, Trump took up the issue again on his TruthSocial platform, saying: "I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20-year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!"

Civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill said the threat, which follows on Trump's highly controversial deportation of alleged gang members to El Salvador last week, should not be taken lightly.

"Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began," said Ifill in response to Trump's rantings on Friday. "The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador. We cannot sleepwalk through this."

Well folks, smoke 'em if you got 'em because I'm pretty sure this bloviating nazi windbag is serious. Given the pattern we've been observing by which Trump's musing are treated as "objective" reality by his fascist minions, and how the regime then transforms that (un)reality into enforcement action regardless of the law, I don't think it's a good idea to wave this off as 'Trump being Trump." Just yesterday regime Attorney General Pam Bondi was publicly making the argument that what is, legally speaking, mere vandalism, is actually a "wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties," and that line was then parroted by a variety of regime-loyal mouthpieces in the larger discourse. This process of laying the ground work to transform fascist unreality into a presumed mandate to act is precisely the tactic we saw the Trump regime employ to justify kidnapping student anti-genocide protest leaders residing legally in the United States, render over 200 prisoners to a slave labor dungeon in El Salvador without due process, attempting to either seize control of, or destroy Columbia University, manufacture consent to annex Canada, and even attempt to shutter the US Department of Education. Furthermore, given the regime's continued insistence that invoking the word "terrorism" is a magic spell that allows them to ignore US law and our constitutionally-protected rights, you'd have to be some kind of rube to assume Bondi's media performance yesterday, and Trump's late night social media rant, aren't a coordinated effort to manufacture consent to escalate the regime's war on resistance to include American protestors and dissidents opposing the administration's fascist fuckery.

Of course it almost goes without saying that what Trump is proposing here, the rendition of American citizens to a slave labor prison in El Salvador for the high crime of vandalizing some cars, is highly illegal and a blatant violation of our legally-enshrined civil rights, but that hasn't really stopped the Trump administration from plowing ahead with its war on protest and resistance so far. Furthermore, decades and decades of bipartisan demonization of "criminals" and protestors, particularly those engaging in direct action, likely ensures that many Americans aren't going to notice this fascist repression, or care very much if they do. Naturally, the Trump regime is relying on that attitude prevailing in the larger public consciousness, which is why they're employing a boiling frog strategy of going after people they say are "gang members," "terrorists," "illegals," "antisemites," "troublemakers," and "criminals," first.

As I've noted in the past, whether or not the Trump administration is *successfully* able to get away with blatant violations of the law while enacting his fascist war on our civil rights is unknowable in the present, but the pre-existing pattern of regime behavior in the Trump 2.0 era makes it pretty clear that if Trump says it, he at least means to *try* and do it; which makes all of this an ominous warning for everyone.

#Trump #Fascism #Musk #Tesla #CivilRights #ElSalvador #PamBondi #Protests #ManufacturingConsent #Gulag #USConsitution

The President of #ElSalvador will apparently be at the WH on Monday. Note to the #ICC (of which they apparently are a member): Surely the prison in the news, and the case in the news, violate numerous crimes against humanity! Take him into custody! #Politics

#SCOTUS’ decision was unanimous. Additionally it suggests someone held overseas can still be given due process.
Ya think? Especially given that the #Trump admin is paying #ElSalvador to detain the *deportees*

#KilmarAbregoGarcia #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #AbuseOfPower

#KilmarAbregoGarcia, a Salvadoran migrant who was living in Maryland & has had a work permit since 2019, was stopped & detained by #ICE officers on March 12 & questioned about his *alleged* gang affiliation. He was deported on March 15 on one of three high-profile #deportation flights to #ElSalvador that also included alleged Venezuelan gang members.

#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #AbuseOfPower #Trump

🚨🚨🚨 #SCOTUS declined on Thurs to block a judge's order requiring #Trump's #administration to facilitate the return to the UnitedStates a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to #ElSalvador.

US District Judge Paula Xinis on April 4 issued an order that the administration return #KilmarAbregoGarcia, in response to a lawsuit filed by the man & his family challenging the legality of his #deportation.

#immigration #law #DueProcess
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-upholds-order-facilitate-return-deportee-sent-el-salvador-error-2025-04-10/

Inhaltswarnung: Lawless & Cruel Beyond The Scale ... and ... A Glimmer Of Hope Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

Supreme Court sieht nach irrtümlicher Abschiebung Regierung am Zug

Ein Mann sitzt in El Salvador in Haft, obwohl er nicht aus den USA hätte abgeschoben werden dürfen. Der Supreme Court sieht nun die Regierung in der Pflicht - bleibt aber vage.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/supreme-court-abschiebung-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#USA #SupremeCourt #ElSalvador

If you were the victim would YOU get on the government plane 'helping' to returning you? They taught south american dictators how to kick people like him out of airplanes and helicopters blindfolded, while in flight, right?

"US Supreme Court says #Trump admin must help bring back man sent to #ElSalvador (PRISON) by mistake" https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3306068/us-supreme-court-says-trump-admin-must-help-bring-back-man-sent-el-salvador-mistake #Deportations #ussc

Elective tag #deportationsafetyissues

Trump administration prepares to send more deported migrants to notorious El Salvador prison

Erik Prince wants in on the action

Prince - who is gaining traction in the second Trump administration - has pitched a plan to set up a US-run immigrant detention facility in El Salvador

#ErikPrince #Prince #ElSalvador #Trump

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/09/politics/deportees-el-salvador-prison-trump

Trump Says He'd "Love" to Deport US Citizens to El Salvador Gulags if It's Legal

#LegalReform #ImmigrationPolicy #RuleOfLaw #PoliticalStance #ElSalvador

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-deporting-us-citizens-el-salvador

#DemocracyNow: “Detained Without Evidence”: Maryland Father Remains in #ElSalvador Prison After #SCOTUS Ruling

Story April 08, 2025

"The Supreme Court has paused a lower court order that instructed the Trump administration to immediately bring back a U.S. #LegalResident who was 'mistakenly' sent to #ElSalvador, giving the court more time to deliberate on the case. #KilmarAbregoGarcia, who was expelled from the U.S. on March 15 despite holding protected status, will continue to languish under dangerous conditions in a Salvadoran maximum-security prison. The Trump administration claims it’s powerless to bring him back to his family in Maryland.

"'They have dug in their heels at every step of the way,' says Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, about the government’s defense. 'It’s ridiculous that this case is at the Supreme Court at all.'

"Behind Abrego Garcia’s ICE arrest and removal is Trump’s invocation of the #1798AlienEnemiesAct, a wartime authority last deployed during #WorldWarII. In a separate ruling, the Supreme Court has approved of the Trump administration’s removals of #Venezuelan #immigrants, but said that those targeted must be given an opportunity to challenge their removal. So far, immigrants expelled to El Salvador have been largely denied their legal rights and detained without clear evidence.

"They are then incarcerated in the country’s '#MegaPrisons,' where [#HumanRights] abuses have flourished under El Salvador’s 'state of exception.' 'These conditions constitute, under international law, #ForcedDisappearances,' says Noah Bullock, executive director of Cristosal, a human rights organization in @CentralAmerica."

Listen / watch / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/8/supreme_court_el_salvador_ice
#ViewerSupportedNews #ICEDetention #IllegalDeportations #SecretPolice #HumanRightsViolations #ConstitutionalRights #HumanRights #SCOTUSIsCompromised #SCOTUSIsCorrupt

The US has been a dual state ever since its founding to various degrees. It is now back in a dual state almost as bad as when slaves in the South were the norm and the years of segregation.

Due process means little when ICE can go judge shopping in Texas.

#DualState #MassDeportation #ElSalvador #Gulag #JudgeShopping #Texas #HumanRights #Humanity #Slavery #PoC #Law #SCOTUS #Trumpistan #Injustice

UPDATE

#SCOTUS decides 5-4 Trump may resume deporting alleged mbrs of #Venezuela's Tren de Araragua gang to #ElSalvador based on 1798 Allien Enemies Act - BUT the govt must give deportees "reasonable time" to challenge their removal *in court in the US* before deportation.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/07/Supreme-Court-allows-deportations-El-Salvador-reume/3951744068262/

#Immigration #TrumpDeportations #MassDeportations

#SCOTUS temporarily blocks order requiring return from #ElSalvador of wrongly deported migrant

Chief Justice Roberts, acting on his own, issued an “administrative stay,” a pause meant to give the court time to consider the case. The justices are expected to act soon.

Gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/supreme-court-wrongly-deported.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.Qit7.YArrKdAxw8Dd&smid=nytcore-android-share

#Immigration #TrumpDeportations #MassDeportations

>>Jesús Alberto Ríos Andrade, one of the Venezuelans sent by the Donald Trump administration to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador, is married to a U.S. citizen. When he was detained on February 1 by immigration authorities, he had already started multiple U.S. immigration processes: permanent residency, a work permit, and even Temporary Protected Status.<<

#Immigration #Deportations #CECOT #Venezuela #ElSalvador #USPol
https://elfaro.net/en/202505/el_salvador/27806/US-Wife-of-CECOT-Deportee-%E2%80%9CHe-was-seeking-asylum%E2%80%A6-Sometimes-I-think-he%E2%80%99s-dead%E2%80%9D.htm

At least 256 people have been kidnapped and turned into tormented ghosts in the gulag CECOT in El Salvador by ICE.
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

#humanRights #ElSalvador #Gulag #ICE

US-Supreme Court hebt Abschiebestopp auf

Die Trump-Regierung in den USA hatte sich bei Abschiebungen von angeblichen Bandenmitgliedern nach El Salvador auf ein Gesetz von 1798 berufen. Ein Richter hat dem einen Riegel vorgeschoben - den nun der Supreme Court wieder aufhob.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/us-supreme-court-abschiebung-el-salvador-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#USA #SupremeCourt #ElSalvador

Gerichtsurteil: Nach El Salvador Abgeschobener soll zurück in die USA

Ein US-Gericht hat entschieden, dass ein zu Unrecht nach El Salvador abgeschobener Mann in die USA zurückgeholt werden muss. Die Trump-Regierung räumt zwar einen Fehler ein, hält aber an schweren Vorwürfen fest.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/us-abschiebung-el-salvador-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#USA #Abschiebungen #ElSalvador

USA schieben Mann "versehentlich" nach El Salvador ab

Die US-Regierung hat einen Mann wegen angeblicher Bandenmitgliedschaft nach El Salvador abgeschoben - zu Unrecht. Die Behörden räumten nun einen "Verwaltungsfehler" ein. Zurückkehren könne der Mann aber nicht.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/abschiebung-el-salvador-versehen-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#ElSalvador #Gefängnis #Abschiebung #USA

Venezuelan Professional Goalkeeper Deported to El Salvador Prison, Stunning Family Back Home

DHS, in a statement, stands by the rendition to a prison known for torture and barbaric conditions.

from #DropSiteNews
Ryan Grim and Sarah Hay
Mar 20, 2025

[a very chilling article on how Trump and his underlings are trampling on any semblance of legality]

"The family only discovered that their loved one, Jerce Reyes Barrios, had been renditioned to #ElSalvador when they saw him in viral videos posted by the #Trump administration, in which it celebrated what it said was the mass deportation of violent members of the #Venezuelan gang #TrenDeAragua. "

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/venezuelan-professional-goaltender-rendition-deported-dhs?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#news #politics #USpolitics #press #Venezuela #DHS #ICE #immigration