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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]*the executive is knowingly playing a fake game of semantics rather than following the law[/quote]

Sounds like what Biden did for 4 years, as did Obama and Clinton for 8 years. Were you complaining then, or only now?

A true test of your belief is whether you hold it when your party is in power.

I think this guy should have his day in immigration court, and then deported (or kept in El Salvador of the hold is lifted). His behavior in the US would not seem to be what Americans want in lawful immigrants (or even asylum seekers). [/quote]

Knowingly player semantics to disappear whoever they want from US soil to a prison in a foreign country? Do tell.

In the words of ultra conservative, Federalist Society, 4th Circuit Judge Wilkerson

"[b]It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done.  This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear[/b]. "

I think I may repeatedly post this quite to every single reply moving forward. [/quote]

DP. I agree they should have had his paperwork in order. I just find Kilmar extremely unsympathetic and cannot reach the level of outrage that is being requested here. It was an error that can easily be corrected- he can just be reprocessed.

The second problem is one of clarity. The US didn't "stash Kilmar in a foreign prison." He was returned to his native El Salvador, where he was imprisoned *by the government of El Salvador* pursuant to *their laws.* While Trump is indeed asserting the right to have US prisoners kept in foreign prisons, that isn't what is actually happening in Kilmar's case. He is being kept by his own government. This is further illustrated by the fact that SCOTUS asked Trump to [b]"facilitate the return"[/b] of Kilmar. It's an acknowledgement that we are not the only party with control here, in fact, El Salvador is denying the request. If we had control, they would just send him back. [/quote]

They never said return, they said release. If El Salvador will not release him, nothing we can do. [/quote]

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