Now I get why Booker went. Van Hollen was able to confirm he's alive, and being held illegally. As long as there is someone there with the ability to pressure the optics, they can't just "get rid of him" and the whole thing makes Trump look weak because these Congressmen can meet with him, but Trump can't get him out?
Yep... It also puts pressure on Bukele - I mean, remember his comments to the media
"I can't smuggle someone into the US, and I'm not willing to let them walk around my country, so I guess there's nothing to be done"
The man didn't say he wouldn't return them, he made it very clear the ball is in the US's court and he hasn't been asked to give him back. He said it was impossible to see the victim, and yet when a US senator still showed up they arranged all this
America is the customer buying a service here...a customer known for having a huge crew of assassins with lots of experience overthrowing South American countries
I'm not willing to let them walk around my country
Which is weird too, like he's not charged with a crime so what makes him different from a random El Salvadoran citizen?
Bukele has been locking up random El Salvadorian citizens without charges...
Hmm, reminds me of another dickhead 🤔
Yeah, they chose El Salvador because they've literally abolished due process. It's like Cambodia again - someone accuses you and you're just instantly taken away. You MIGHT get to see a judge after you're imprisoned for a month or two, likely after you've been beaten half to death so you'll confess to anything just to make the pain stop. It's a dressed up version of Duterte's Philippines - we'll kidnap you and let you die, rather than just some death squad rolling up to your door (because that doesn't play well to the media and the other can be dressed up as "law and order").
And why not walk him back to their private plane?
This is one of a couple hundred that have been sent here already. Maybe they want to get more than just one guy out and smuggling him out would hamper that ability more than it already is.
Understood, but for better or worse he is the face of the movement. This visit will be buried news in 24 hours.
I'm absolutely shocked that he's still alive. Amazing.
"Subject has no criminal history.". Fuckers.
So someone with a 1/8 oz weed conviction deserves this treatment because they have a "criminal history"?
How the hell did you make that enormous leap from saying this guy had no criminal record?
I hate how everyone repeats the administration's claim that this was "in error." Bullshit. They absolutely did it on purpose. Being able to say "too late lol" is part of their plan, and it's a plausible enough excuse to reduce further scrutiny on all the other innocent people they shipped there.
The Trump administration is full of soulless monsters and they all need to be stopped, one way or another.
Van Hollen has joined the ranks of Dems worth a shit, and Garcia needs to be brought home pronto
Happy to see that guy is still breathing.
Multiple sources across the internet are posting this google earth satellite image of this Prison in El Salvador. 60 minutes reported that 75% of the 200 people Trump sent to this prison have no criminal record. Monday trump told the El Salvadorian president to build more prisons because he’s sending homegrown Americans next
Never been so happy to be so wrong. I'm glad he's alive and functional, more Democrats need to follow up on the realities on the ground level.
Lots of negative things to say about dems but Van Hollen did a good and difficult thing here. If more dems are willing to behave like him, we can get through this.
Sure, but Garcia is still stuck in the death camp. What happened here was basicly just a photo op. Nothing was won here. Hollen just seems more sympathetic now without having accomplished anything. Garcia is no closer to surviving this than before.
Not world news worthy article
I know that hating America is cooler than ever, but if you genuinely can’t see how a global superpower heading down a shockingly similar trajectory to nazi germany is absolutely a world news story, you’re being willfully ignorant
and particularly when the news involves both the US and el salvador
So Trump starts a trade war with the whole damn world, demands the resources of a country ravaged by war, threatens to annex the territory of our allies and an entire ally, but when he "accidentally" deports someone who's supposed to be here to a foreign prison in fucking El Salvatore he's suddenly powerless to bring this one guy back?
Yup. I believe you have it.
This is reactionary. They go to meet with the person who was clearly wrongly imprisoned, but where are the calls for impeachment and removal from the Presidency? Oh wait... there are none. Cowards.
Trump has already been impeached multiple times. One more isn’t going to change your reaction.
The hell, they can take him out of the concentration camp for a restaurant interview but can't just, yah know, let him out?
Diplomatic corps in many countries usually can bend the law here and there.
Also a really troll move. Expect /r/conservative to take all these photos to show non-Nazis that they’re being hysterical.
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