Van Hollen and Booker showing how representatives in government should be working for their constituents. I hope their aim is to be as annoying as possible until something good comes of it, but I worry Bukele will just arrest them and further erode the numbers we have in Congress.

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[–] 172 points 1 year ago (11 children)

All of them were wrongly deported.

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  • [–] 90 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Trafficked*

    Deportation, by definition, includes due process

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This isn't deportation, it's internment

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Correct, although I imagine they don't want to risk the optics of coming to the rescue of everyone only to find out after a court case that at least one of those people were actually guilty, even though you'd have saved hundreds from wrongful imprisonment and stood up for the constitution.

    Voters are just too dumb, I guess.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think 14 (ish) of them were actually charged with a crime, although none of them had a trial, let alone were found guilty and sentenced. And even if they were found guilty of something, I'm pretty sure locking someone up indefinitely in a foreign torture prison/slave labor camp qualifies for the 8th Amendment's prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment."

    There is no legal or moral justification for sending even the most hardened convicted criminal there.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (62 children)

    They need to stop this 1 at a time thing. Get like 40 members of Congress, Senators and Representatives. Show up at CECOT with cameras live streaming and demand to be admitted. When they refuse, force your way in.

    I don't believe anyone in El Salvador, including Bukele and the goons staffing the prison, want to have a live stream of them assaulting/arresting a bunch of US members of Congress. And if they do, maybe that'll help wake some Republican voters up to the fascism.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The Rs would celebrate the Ds getting detained in El Salvadore. Everyone going together would be risky as F. If they all get detained, there are no Ds to push back against this shit.

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    [–] 34 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I have a feeling this will be the first politician to be arrested.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Why would you think that? Just because he's not a white m-ohhhhh right.

    Yeah, no, you're probably right. But they're going to fuck up enough at some point. Hopefully we'll be here to make them pay for it, and I like Booker. (yeah yeah miss me with the 'he voted for Israel' links, I got it, thanks.)

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    [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Chuck Schumer and the DNC must be FURIOUS! This TOTALLY RUINS their ENTIRE Plan of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! These Representatives NEED to stick to the DNC tactic of LETTING Americans get Deported so they can WIN the Midterms!

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Look for him in this mound

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We can get satellite imagery that has a resolution of 30cm (1 foot? Fucked if I know) I put in a request to get some of the site but they want $500 because I need to buy 25sq km of imagery. So I'm still looking for another vendor

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    You probably should ask the Covert Cabal channel on Youtube about this. They specialize in counting Russian armored assets - how many are still in storage, the rate tanks vanish, and so forth. They ought to know specialists and how to get the most cost-effective footage.

    I wouldn't be surprised if CC someday covers concentration camps, seeing as how the Trump Regime is an Russian organ.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Assuming this guy is still alive at this point.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He obviously needs to bring armed forces with him and extract the guy and watch El Salvador blink in 1 second

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    The bottom line is that man will never be safe in this country again. This fascist regime has made sure of that. He will have a massive target on his back if he ever returns.

    American fascism is here.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Honestly, what is he gonna be able to do?

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He's definitely gonna run for president again and is trying to position himself as relevant. He'll never win.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The Legislative and Judicial branches need their own armed forces in order to help provide a real counter to unconstitutional executive overreach.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    This is giving Jonestown

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If I were that man I would not want to return to the US. Send him somewhere safe.

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