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The Trump administration has no interest in seeing a man returned to the United States who was illegally sent to El Salvador. The president made that very clear on Saturday... in a way that he probably thought was pretty clever.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 93 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In my dream world, the courts respond to Trump's claim that he cannot retrieve anyone from El Salvador by putting a stay on all deportations until the Trump administration demonstrates that it will not deport people to any place from which it cannot quickly retrieve them if they were deported in error.

(I don't expect this to happen.)

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And to get the ball rolling a bit more quickly, hold Trump personally in contempt in El Salvador to help motivate fixing that glitch.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They can’t, the President cannot be held accountable for ANY official acts, according to the Supreme Court.

[–] punkideas@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But what if they hold him in contempt in El Salvador "by accident"?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Maybe it wasn't an official act, in the meantime you're in contempt. Oh you're in El Salvador now? Oh shit it was an official act? Oh well guess we can't bring you back.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And apparently congress, the Senate, the judiciary and the general public are ok with this. Fuck this timeline.

[–] ijedi1234@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's up there with that time a rich youtuber decided to make Squid Game an actual reality TV show.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] ijedi1234@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was referring to the show made by Mr Beast.

To quote Lucy from the Fallout show; Okeydokey!

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Squid Game? You mean Kaiji

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

I suspect Trump made a deal with the devil to be completely immune from any legal consequences for anything

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t know every impeachable offense, but I’m pretty sure not following a decision of the Supreme Court is one of them.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He’s been impeached twice already. Who cares?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anybody who swore an oath against domestic threats. Those guys can be real wildcards.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Clearly not.

The point is he was impeached twice last time he was president and it did nothing. He has too much support for anyone in government to actually do anything.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do we know for sure that Garcia is still alive?

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The more they fight it, the more confident I am that the answer is no

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

It explains why Trump initially didn't care (didn't know guy was dead).

It also aligns with Trump's statements about Salvadore being a sovereign nation, because the angle will be that it wasn't the Trump admin's fault.

They're not going to reveal that unless / until they really have to, and it won't be Trump that announces it obviously.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which then gets you thinking are they just killing everyone they deport.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not really.

Garcia fled from gang violence. If you put him in a cell with 99 gang members, he's likely to meet a violent demise.

There's a difference between the administration actively murdering deportees, and just not caring whether they die.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That line is pretty fucking slim though.

[–] Rivalarrival 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Family is gonna be rich once Trump is out of office.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

They're more likely to kill his entire family than they are to ever give up power.