Not surprisingly, Van Hollen wasn’t allowed to meet with or even place a phone call to Abrego Garcia, but he was able to meet with Salvadoran Vice President Félix Ulloa, who said that El Salvador “can’t” return Abrego Garcia, explaining that the US is paying for his permanent detention without charges, trial, or even a hearing
yes, Garcia is still in a fucked up mess- and quite possibly dead- but, Hollen did get them to state, in official diplomatic discourse, that the reason for it was that trump’s admin was paying them.
We stop paying, and I imagine Garcia will magically come home. (in what state is anyone’s guess.)
It honestly sounds like there is no human decency and El Salvador is basically absolved itself from any interference even if it’s to defend basic human rights so they can keep Trump happy and continue receiving the piddly funds they are promised.
Paying another nation to incarcerate someone indefinitely without due process is beyond fucked up. It’s almost impossible to believe that’s our current reality. That’s the sort of thing that I feel the founders of our country would throw a revolution over.
what gets me is that the current shit you’re in isn’t really news from my perspective. The US has been doing horrible things for 80 years now, and nobody batted an eye when it didn’t affect them. What really bothers me is that people start seeing there’s a messed-up situation now.
It shouldn’t bother you. People reacting to bad things is a good thing. If you get upset when the thing you wish happened before happens now the thing you were upset about probably was something else.
from the article, and it’s “something”-
yes, Garcia is still in a fucked up mess- and quite possibly dead- but, Hollen did get them to state, in official diplomatic discourse, that the reason for it was that trump’s admin was paying them.
We stop paying, and I imagine Garcia will magically come home. (in what state is anyone’s guess.)
It honestly sounds like there is no human decency and El Salvador is basically absolved itself from any interference even if it’s to defend basic human rights so they can keep Trump happy and continue receiving the piddly funds they are promised.
Both countries can get fucked.
Paying another nation to incarcerate someone indefinitely without due process is beyond fucked up. It’s almost impossible to believe that’s our current reality. That’s the sort of thing that I feel the founders of our country would throw a revolution over.
what gets me is that the current shit you’re in isn’t really news from my perspective. The US has been doing horrible things for 80 years now, and nobody batted an eye when it didn’t affect them. What really bothers me is that people start seeing there’s a messed-up situation now.
It shouldn’t bother you. People reacting to bad things is a good thing. If you get upset when the thing you wish happened before happens now the thing you were upset about probably was something else.
Welcome to Nazis America.
we’ve been here for a while, but now they’re going full mask off.