US senator says 'traumatised' man deported to El Salvador moved to new prison
US senator says 'traumatised' man deported to El Salvador moved to new prison
Sen Chris Van Hollen returned from El Salvador and spoke about his time meeting with Kilmar Ábrego García.
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House Mr Ábrego García was "not a very innocent guy".
This coming from a convicted felon...
...that has spent his whole adult life weaponising due process for personal gain. Of course he wants to deny it from anyone else.
Exactly. With all the experience he has with felonies, you can trust he knows a felon when he sees one.
Why did this senator not just say 'You're coming with me' and take him back to the States? Under what grounds could they have stopped him?
Under the grounds that the senator is a visitor to their country, they're a sovereign nation, and that isn't something anyone wants happening.
Best case, it works, and further weakens US soft power by way of ignoring the authority of a sovereign nation directly, and without a consensus. Worst case, it's basically declaring civil war here, and could be considered an act of war there.
And there's no guarantee they would have stopped him, but they could. They could basically hold him and put his ass on a plane back here, and be well within their rights, no matter whether they're morally right or not. We'd do exactly the same thing if a foreign representative staged a jailbreak on our soil.
I'm not saying the us has never interfered in shit before. I'm just saying it wasn't one senator going off the rails on his own whim, and that makes a huge difference in outcomes.
He's a Salvadorean citizen. That would probably be enough.