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Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US
(www.theguardian.com)
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All of them were wrongly deported.
Trafficked*
Deportation, by definition, includes due process
This isn't deportation, it's internment
Kidnapping?
It is definitely kidnapping. But it's more than that. It's human trafficking and genocide.
Yeeted
Yeeted right into a concentration camp.
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.
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.
Yeah, like I said it's mostly optics because a reasonable person should know this isn't ok in general, but the common voter isn't reasonable. At least that's how I interpret it. Thanks for bringing up the specific number, too.
There is also the legality of it and if it is treasonous. The one person at least the senators have some saftey nets from the Supreme Court but they still are at risk here.
I mean that would be a win. You can show why due process is important and that justice is served with it.
How is it a loss to use the justice system as it was written to convict someone of a crime?
If Democrats are so worried about messaging that they'll let innocent people rot in prison and only attempt to save one guy for a "win" that just means they actually don't care about any of them.