We have pretty good evidence that this is due to historic under diagnosis, expanding the definition of Autism, and improved and increased testing parameters. In other words, the actual rate hasn’t increased, we just detect it more often than we used to.
Garcia isn’t a green card holder, but he does have legal status. He’s under “withholding removal”, which is kind of asylum lite. He can live and work here, and he made regular checkins to prove he was behaving, but the government is allowed to deport him to anywhere except El Salvador, although until this they hadn’t tried.
He very well could be dead, but I think the primary thing happening here is they want to create the precedent that they can’t bring anyone back from this prison. That way, they can start sending “undesirable” American citizens “by mistake” and then just be able to say “not our problem”.
Oh, believe me, I am in full agreement. This never should have happened, for many, many reasons. I was just attempting to correct what I thought was a factual inaccuracy that does have a material impact on the case.
Ah, my bad, I misread, I thought they said he was a US citizen. I’ve seen people making that claim and wanted to correct it
At least in jail, they get food.
For now. There’s already reports of immigrant detainees being starved.
Just for clarity, he’s not a citizen. He did have a legal protected status which was supposed to allow him to remain here or at the very least not be deported to specifically El Salvador. Still fucked, but just want to get the facts straight.
EDIT I misunderstood, he is a citizen of El Salvador, but not the US. I’d seen people claiming he was a US citizen and wanted to correct that.
It’s the end of Trump’s “First 100 Days.” He’s floated invoking the Insurrection Act and declaring martial law at that time, although I’m also seeing that he’s suggested doing that as soon as the 20th.