Anonymous wrote:When you've lost Joe Rogan...
Joe Rogan: 'Horrific' innocent people could be swept up in deportations to El Salvador
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5224117-trump-deportation-gang-members/
Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/
I can't read the whole piece in the Atlantic but caught it in other networks.
WTF???!!!! Another oops? Sorry we can't fix it because he's in their custody? What the hell does that even mean??!!!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Weird. But I also basically painted myself as a church singer when I got divorced before a judge. I sing in the shower.
I mean … I’ll wait to see what they have on him. You never know
Except we won't see, since there's no due process. He could just disappear forever and our government has basically said "Eh - just take our word for it."
Anonymous wrote:Expecting the attention? Bukele is the driving force behind it. His background is in marketing/advertising. His government produced the videos, not just the ones we have seen, the many before!
What is in for them? I mean, El Salvador has gone from one of the highest (the highest?) murder rate in Latin America to arguing that it is "the safest." They have rounded up gang members and jailed them and drastically reduced crime.
The benefits are obvious. But at what cost?
*human rights violations
*lack of due process
*random arrests to meet quotas
It is horrifying. The ends do not justify the means.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Most people are not losing sleep over Venezuelan gang members being deported. The administration needs to get its act together and make sure they aren't deporting US ciitizens but overall this is policy popular with most Americans. Were these people in our country illegally or not? Do you want to win the next election or not?
You are correct that most Americans don’t care about Venezuela gang members being deported.
But the thing that should concern all of us is that most did not receive due process, and some appear to have been sent their mistakenly. Like the gay make up artist. Or the young man with the autism awareness tattoo. Or the women in the group that were sent to El Salvador and promptly returned by the El Salvadoran government because it does not accept female prisoners.
The lack of due process is a HUGE problem. It fundamentally shakes any trust and confidence in federal law enforcement.
That, and the abysmal lack of transparency and the fact that they are rounding up people who are here LEGALLY - that should be of concern to EVERY American. That is how bad things have happened throughout history - whether Nazi concentration camps, Stalin's purges, the Great Leap Forward in China, Pol Pot and so on.
Nowhere in history has anything good ever come of this type of behavior.
Anonymous wrote:How do we define equality here?
Some people think everyone should have the same income. Do you agree?
Anonymous wrote:When you've lost Joe Rogan...
Joe Rogan: 'Horrific' innocent people could be swept up in deportations to El Salvador
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5224117-trump-deportation-gang-members/
Anonymous wrote:Weird. But I also basically painted myself as a church singer when I got divorced before a judge. I sing in the shower.
I mean … I’ll wait to see what they have on him. You never know
Anonymous wrote:Weird. But I also basically painted myself as a church singer when I got divorced before a judge. I sing in the shower.
I mean … I’ll wait to see what they have on him. You never know
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Look at these article photos, and pictures of the tents built at Gitmo, historical images of Auschwitz, Japenese internments camps, slave ships. Then tell me that this Administration is not planning for the same.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4nrdnp018o
For the record, I completely get how/why El Salvador built Cecot. But when they did that were they expecting all this press and al these visits? Are they now trying to be the jail country? And if so what’s in it for them?
You don't get how advertising that crime doesn't pay could make a country appealing?
And what's in it for them sees to be a suddenly functional country. Despite all the complaints from the usual suspects the country is actually nice to live in for the first time in generations.
I'd like to know who you mean when you say "the usuals suspects" so dismissively. Are you talking about the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the UN? Because a lot of us respect the UN.
The United States was founded on principles of liberty, justice, and equality. It is un-American to gloss over human rights abuses.