Today April 14, 2025, the United States officially becomes a dictatorship, as the President of the United States openly refuses to obey the Supreme Court.
“How can I return him to the United States? Am I going to smuggle him? Of course I’m not going to do it,” Bukele said while sitting beside President Donald Trump. “The question is preposterous.”
Ideally you would return him because the president of the United States asked you to, but I suppose Trump doesn't think the Supreme Court's ruling that the US government needs to "facilitate" Garcia’s return requires such an extraordinary level of effort.
I am starting to think there was no "administrative error" here (but both malice and incompetence may apply). it is within reason to think that someone in the administration believed this guy was useful to prove the point.
Salvadorian citizen with a standing protective court order the administration could flout. ship him off to a Salvadorian torture prison and the whole thing becomes murky, messy, with enough blured lines to tie things up in knots while justice and fairness are given the middle finger.
Indeed. I fully believe Apr 14, 2025 will be the date chosen by history and whatever equivalent of the Nuremberg trial of Trump and his henchmen a few years from now for the official beginning of the US dictatorship.
I'm calling today, with the conclusive fall of the Judicial branch, the day that the US officially became a dictatorship by definition.
The day when no one can still pretend there's any gray area left. Courts, the last remaining "check and balance", officially no longer have any say in what the regime does.
The MOST charitable interpretation I can see is that the United States is too weak to get a country like El Salvador to return a US citizen legal resident.
Well that would be dumb. Bukele didn't say he wouldn't send them back, he said he needed the ok from Trump and Trump isn't giving it because he's still calling him a terrorist.
The heritage foundation wrote the Patriot act, I'm pretty sure I remember reading, that's why it was ready so quickly after 9/11, just like project 2025, it was massively unpopular but they used a national tragedy to sneak it in.
The time to rise against Trump was before the election. Because frankly, unless you're willing to risk being shipped off to a concentration camp without due process or worse, whatchagondo about it now...?
Monday’s Oval meeting came as former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and his team of defense contractors have been pitching the White House on a plan to target “criminal illegal aliens”
Yeah… I still have clips of Blackwater's ‘adventures’ in Iraq. If they're still as humane and accountable as they were back then, seeing them anywhere is a bad omen.
I can't say I'm surprised. We all knew the Trump admin was going to privately ask Bukele to keep this innocent man in jail, and Bukele was going to pretend like he wouldn't / couldn't send him back.
We are now at the stage of authoritarianism where the US is disappearing and jailing the innocent. Holy fuck.
A Justice Department lawyer conceded in a court hearing that Abrego Garcia should not have been deported. Attorney General Pam Bondi later removed the lawyer, Erez Reuveni, from the case and placed him on leave.
That's one helluva team of mercenaries you're gonna need to storm that ultra-militarized Salvadorian concentration camp and sift through 40,000 innmates all dressed in white with shaved heads to find the poor dude whose life Trump ruined.