A Guatemalan national who says he was wrongfully deported to Mexico is back in the United States, his legal team told CNN, in what appears to mark the first time the Trump administration has brought back a migrant after a judge ordered the administration to facilitate their return.
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He is now in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s custody, Realmuto told CNN.
“Get rid of this Mexican”
“I’m from Guatemala”
“Shut up Mexican”
I bet that’s basically how it went down.
“I’ll show it to you on a map.”
“Ah, yes, I see my mistake. You’re from Southeast Mexico.”
“Pardon?”
“Just know that Trump will take the Panama Canal back from you Mexicans. That’s a promise.”
Lmao love it
What, I thought he said such things were impossible!
Note that this is someone being returned from Mexico, not El Salvador.
For all we really know the agreement with El Salvador is a guaranteed one way deal that we pay them to handle and they’re refusing to play ball beyond that. Maybe they’re wanting more money to send people back and that’s why the Admin isn’t complying with the courts.
Or maybe they’re just fucking lying and you don’t need to make up excuses for them that they’ve never before even hinted at.
I’m not making any sort of excuse and nothing in my comment came close to that. You should check your reading comprehension skills, because they’re clearly lacking.
I haven’t seen anyone write up a breakdown of what the fuck the actual agreement with countries like El Salvador looks like. Just some general numbers back at the beginning about some costs. No breakdown of whether the payments are based on the number of people, a general monthly cost for everything regardless of occupancy, something on a per-person level, time limits for holding specific individuals, etc.
No information on whether it’s purposely intended to be one way or not. You honestly think this Administration put in any sort of provisions for getting people back, or would they specifically word it as a one way deal? Something like we send you people and pay you $x per month, y minimum time, etc. and we never see them again.
Whether the prisons are considered US territory while occupied for this purpose, whether any US law enforcement has any jurisdiction, etc. You know, the types of things that normally are setup well before anything it built.
The entire purpose of these places seems to get the people out of the US and promptly forget about them, they don’t need to actually deport them correctly if you just get them off US land and hand them to El Salvador or whatever other nation to do whatever they want with them. With that goal it seems entirely possible that whatever the fascists wrote up for an agreement doesn’t have any provisions for getting people back, or might even have penalty fees for returning people because they never intended to do that.
There’s some sort of a reason why we’re seeing some people be retrieved from some places like Mexico and no returns from places like El Salvador. What is the difference?
Idk why people are downvoting you when its clear as day that El Salvador is playing this administration like a fiddle.
Get paid to take people in, knowing its against our laws. Wait until our courts point out its illegal. Then refuse to return your new golden goose bargaining chip until you get handed everything you want on a silver platter.
Considering this is the most two faced administration in history, theyve set themselves up a lot better than even most of our traditional allies have as far as negotiations go
They’re continually paying El Salvador for this on an ongoing basis per Chris Van Hollen. To a place they could easily withhold funding if they wanted to until he was sent back
He was deported to Mexico (illegally), but he’s a citizen of Guatemala. After that, he travelled from Mexico to Guatemala on his own. So his return to US was facilitated from Guatemala.
For all we really know the agreement with El Salvador is a guaranteed one way deal that we pay them to handle and they’re refusing to play ball beyond that.
This seems to be the party line in the sealed ex parte filings that have been presented to judges. I’ve also seen allegations that the deal is a handshake deal only–nothing in writing.
Judge Boasberg at least is taking them at their word, with some strong warnings about perjury.
That’s a good TACO.
ACAB
thats actually great!
Did anyone else really struggle to figure out what the hell the thumbnail on this was?
