Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego appears to be endorsing Trump's plan to use Guantanamo Bay or prisons in El Salvador to indefinitely hold immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/m... - ThreadSky

nick-martin.bsky.social • 15 days ago

Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego appears to be endorsing Trump's plan to use Guantanamo Bay or prisons in El Salvador to indefinitely hold immigrants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/magazine/ruben-gallego-interview.html

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mattferrel.bsky.social•14 days ago

I read the full article and now regret ever giving him any money. He sucks.

mattferrel.bsky.social•15 days ago

I signed up to donate to him monthly right when he announced and he immediately becomes worse than the person he replaced. Anyone know what his deal is?

thebestgay91.bsky.social•14 days ago

Tag him. @gallego.senate.gov is a fascist. Not a democrat, not a liberal, not even a centrist. A fascist.

haddenmart.bsky.social•15 days ago

How could you swallow Trump's lies? I thought you were a democrat? Legal immigrants are being sent. Maybe you should take a trip and talk to them. Concentration camps are not the American way.

kwierso.com•14 days ago

Please, these bitches couldn't even walk past the doge rentacops at a federal building, there's nonway they're visiting Guantanamo...

radios2.bsky.social•14 days ago

@gallego.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov complete sellouts. The new Manchin/sinema nightmare. We need to vet our candidates better.

thesamedevice.bsky.social•15 days ago

Arizona, figure your shit out pls

coloneltom.bsky.social•14 days ago

With colleagues like these, who needs enemies?

gem-art.bsky.social•14 days ago

I’M TIRED OF THIS GRANDPA

seeyouinnj.bsky.social•15 days ago

There’s no reason we can’t legally hold prisoners just because they are here illegally. So what he means is that, in fact, we can’t prove they actually are criminals but would still like to put them in jail so we’ll put them in a jail that’s difficult to legally get them out of.

coloradocatmom.bsky.social•15 days ago

Yes but only if we *know* they are super dangerous, which we find out somehow - not through due process because only the good immigrants deserve that 🤷

zzzeek.zzzeek.org•15 days ago

This is OT, but from another part of the article, here we have it - why Schumer et al only talking about egg prices. "We did democracy and justice for the 2024 election, and we failed. they wanted us to do inflation. so now, we're doing inflation. Democracy / justice, nobody cares"

cstrable.bsky.social•14 days ago

@gallego.senate.gov you won because you were (originally) running as a far left senator, and then your race got close because you started being a Republican dipshit

kle138.bsky.social•14 days ago

I think the issue for Dems is less old left vs center divisions and more those who are willing to listen, think differently, and then take action.

But when this is over, we better hope people want competence & moral clarity.

Compromise with fascists may not look so clever in the rear view mirror.

kwierso.com•15 days ago

Why can't we legally hold them here?

troutgirl.bsky.social•14 days ago

Wow, I didn't realize that Gallego represents the "we are the GOOD Latino immigrants, Trump won't hurt us" part of the Arizona electorate.

pugetopia.bsky.social•14 days ago

Just speculation, but I think Gallego represents the "Sinema wanted out and her backers schemed to replace her with an equally corrupt Senator" part of the Arizona electorate.

troutgirl.bsky.social•14 days ago

I can't even hope to understand Arizona politics.

tomvasquez.bsky.social•14 days ago

I know activists in Arizona who were so crushed that Sinema turned out to be a disaster, and were hoping Gallego would be more reliable. I can't even imagine how they're feeling these days.

pugetopia.bsky.social•14 days ago

It sucks so bad and I don't think it's an accident.

kaimast.com•14 days ago

Maybe @gallego.senate.gov or his staff can comment on this?

jonnykat.bsky.social•14 days ago

He's got some 'splaining to do.

braak.bsky.social•15 days ago

why can't we legally hold them here?

brokeshealds.bsky.social•15 days ago

I don't know how he is better than Lake at this point.

erikgunderson.bsky.social•15 days ago

Due process applies regardless of the nature of how bad the person subject to it is. Due process is necessarily a brake, not a stop, on the use of state power. An international relations major from frickin' HARVARD ought to understand this on some level even if he is not himself a lawyer.

bumbledan.bsky.social•14 days ago

The love of licking cop boots is strongly bipartisan.

summerbreeze0102.bsky.social•14 days ago

He’s not and MAGA hates him too, which is hilarious.

He has no base here 😂

deblavoy.bsky.social•14 days ago

He better not.

carlnyberg312.bsky.social•14 days ago

Fuck the Democratic Party.

lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social•14 days ago

What they intend to build at Guantanamo Bay is a concentration camp with about 3x the population of the original Auschwitz, and they intend to use the same "they're all hard criminals" pretense for sending people there, and it'll be a false pretense just like it was with Auschwitz.

vaniljsplitter.bsky.social•14 days ago

🤔 interesting, I haven't heard that. I try to tell people about Russia having death camps in the present day, because they do have that. It's been on the news.

lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social•14 days ago

This must be repeated every single time that place is mentioned. They plan to build concentration camps.

milpool.bsky.social•14 days ago

The Democratic Party has too
many fascists of convenience

poopooturnip.bsky.social•14 days ago

We need to drive Democrats from our communities

wrecked9n76e.bsky.social•15 days ago

Somebody needs to round up these ppl and send THEM to gitmo. Gallego, Fetterman, Schumer, just absolute good for nothing opportunists

justindstanley.com•14 days ago

Welp, looks like Arizona has another senator to primary

tom4okstate.bsky.social•15 days ago

Again with this tiresome bullshit implying we don't have prison facilities here that can handle even the dangerous of individuals.

hollyphantpants.bsky.social•15 days ago

Does he realize that the reason he is a Senator is replacing the one that was pushed out for being a Republican stooge?

tracyabell.bsky.social•15 days ago

So glad I ignored all Gallego's fundraising texts

leftcoasteroc.bsky.social•15 days ago

Me too. One bad experience with a delusional Senate Dem from Arizona was enough.

moha4mm8ad.bsky.social•13 days ago

Hello, how are you, my friend? Can I talk to you for a few minutes? Please, I'm mohammadfrom Gaza🙏🇵🇸🙏Can I helpmr

besmith.bsky.social•14 days ago

"Something to be said" about extrajudicial imprisonment at a military facility.

unknownstonedfruit.bsky.social•14 days ago

this is so insane

alliterativea.bsky.social•14 days ago

Really, with friends like these who needs enemies

riffandrock.bsky.social•15 days ago

We have literal terrorists who have killed a lot of people in our federal prisons. We can handle a few gang members regardless of nationality. Not everyone is fucking El Chapo

kinniska.bsky.social•15 days ago

MOST criminals are not El Chapo. In fact, by and large (eg Rikers!) most of the incarcerated are not even necessarily convicted, they’re in holding prior to trial cause they don’t have bail money.
Small time fuckups are WAY easier to catch and imprison.

mbletst.bsky.social•14 days ago

also we literally keep el chapo in a federal prison and he's still there

devin-eleven.bsky.social•15 days ago

Never good when a politician says there are exceptions to due process.

jeffhyde2284.bsky.social•15 days ago

Could AIPAC be reasons of this decision?

Since I know Israel's Far Right-Wing Extremist Government is Extremely against Immigration, I am sure @trackaipac.bsky.social could give us a heads up about that Democratic Senator and how much money he is getting from the Israel Dark Money Lobby.

losgatos.bsky.social•15 days ago

I mean WTAF how are these Dem senators always f-ing us over after they win?

haddenmart.bsky.social•15 days ago

It appears that often you become a politician you become evil.

americantype.bsky.social•14 days ago

Owned, you become owned

kinniska.bsky.social•15 days ago

I’m gonna guess that there’s a certain personality type that’s morally flexible and figures to play on the DNC structure. Sign up as a Dem, talk the talk, run in a contested area, and fundraiser off it. What you actually do once in is ::big shrug:: apparently

voteblue4vr.bsky.social•15 days ago

What in the heck is in the water in Arizona?!

davidkelley718.bsky.social•15 days ago

You first, Ruben.

sirmasksalot.bsky.social•15 days ago

What people have committed crimes and can't be incarcerated in the US?

That's absolute bullshit.

hollyphantpants.bsky.social•15 days ago

Ones we want to torture. That’s the whole point of Guantanamo Bay.

sirmasksalot.bsky.social•14 days ago

So they actually can be incarcerated in the US.

excalibur2022.bsky.social•15 days ago

djwyszynski.bsky.social•15 days ago

This never saves them. If any other these democrats ever spent six or seven hours in a library in section 335.6, they’d realize they giving inches in the beginning never stops them for asking and the taking whole miles later.

America is ending because our politicians don’t have library cards.

shonakeir.bsky.social•14 days ago

I regret donating to his campaign.

howabouttomorrow.bsky.social•14 days ago

Sure. But remember, he was running against Lake.

summerbreeze0102.bsky.social•14 days ago

Does that matter when he’s been a Lake clone?

howabouttomorrow.bsky.social•14 days ago

Ha. Good point.

rkfatheree.bsky.social•14 days ago

Time to call my Senator again.

jlaprade.bsky.social•15 days ago

“Not ones that have their due process.”

Holy fucking hell.

javonfair.bsky.social•15 days ago

People lose the right to do process when jailed for alleged crimes?

News to me

revpowell.bsky.social•15 days ago

These electeds are the new Dixiecrats

serena-spencer-esq.bsky.social•15 days ago

#ConcentrationCamp

supremerobo.bsky.social•15 days ago

Idk what's up with this dude he seems to think he's up for reelection in 2026. You have six years, man! You don't have to immediately play towards the populist mindsets of your voters

missymorgan.bsky.social•14 days ago

Ruben has been a hypocrite since he was sworn in. An individual who bullied his predecessor out of a primary and acts worse a month into the job. If he was personally affected by these actions in anyway, there’s no universe he makes excuses so he can get some crypto bro money.

krucz36.bsky.social•15 days ago

This is why we need an actual leftist party in America. The democrats are not opposition, they are apologists

mattferrel.bsky.social•14 days ago

Take a page from the Tea Party and takeover the Democratic party.

mdasilva.bsky.social•15 days ago

Fucking Quisling-ass Senator.

cephaloctopi.bsky.social•15 days ago

Some of these Dems are making it really easy to draw up the list for Round 2 after we remove the MAGAs

bensasser.bsky.social•14 days ago

Don't love that.

jpbombay.bsky.social•15 days ago

wtf AZ left

summerbreeze0102.bsky.social•14 days ago

It’s not us. It’s him.

We are all under threat and in danger because of him.

flower112009.bsky.social•13 days ago

@gallego.senate.gov

This is a concentration camp. What is wrong with you?

pettirosso.me•15 days ago

Something that many in the US may not be aware of is the the leader of El Salvador is VERY popular in Latin America right now for how he’s been able to tackle crime. You can be out at any hour without fear of being robbed or assaulted.

oeqqabo.bsky.social•15 days ago

That's mindless propaganda to say there's no robberies or assaults in El Salvador anymore and also it's very well known that Bukele is popular in Latin America but thank you for chiming in

pettirosso.me•15 days ago

You can call it mindless but it’s what Latinos feel and say.

jben1990.bsky.social•15 days ago

Like, this kind of hard-line "mano dura" stuff is always popular and "works" until it very suddenly doesn't! It's genuinely depressing how something like the 558th repetition of this cycle in a LatAm country hasn't taught anyone anything.

jben1990.bsky.social•15 days ago

Also, *of course* it's popular! People in general can be supportive of rights violations if it happens to those they hate, or if it superficially seems to "solve" the problem. That doesn't make them either wise policy or morally right!

pettirosso.me•15 days ago

I completely agree. I’m just not sure of how many people are aware of this dynamic. My husband has a lot of Latino colleagues/friends/family who voted for Trump.

jben1990.bsky.social•15 days ago

Yeah, it's definitely a thing. Here in CA, heavily Hispanic Imperial County went for Trump- the first time it's gone Republican in decades.

So I get *why* Gallego is saying this, it's just a huge bummer.

pettirosso.me•15 days ago

So Sen. Gallego may be talking over all the non-Latinos directly to his own community.

saraht74.bsky.social•14 days ago

By inventing dangerous criminals who somehow can’t held in US prisons for US crimes?

itp7.bsky.social•15 days ago

How did he do that?

pettirosso.me•15 days ago

My Afro-Honduran husband tells me many in El Salvador are ok w/this

Inmate Marvin Vazquez belongs to the infamous MS-13 gang. He was arrested in El Salvador after the government declared war on the gangs in 2022

Vazquez explains that he expects to be incarcerated in CECOT "for the rest of my life"

metallichuck.bsky.social•14 days ago

At what level of "dangerous" do you lose due process rights?

darrelplant.bsky.social•15 days ago

I guess the ones we can’t hold legally are the ones we can only hold illegally?

marvinlh.bsky.social•15 days ago

What the holy hell!!!

cristobalm.bsky.social•15 days ago

You understand all politics is local,; but talk about lame.

mwmcgonagle.bsky.social•14 days ago

Are we talking internment camp or concentration camp cause those are the answers to the question

accadacca.bsky.social•15 days ago

@gallego.senate.gov seriously man? This is what you think? No better than Lake with this nonsense.

krisellyn.bsky.social•15 days ago

Gallego needs to read more.

jeanpoole-az.bsky.social•14 days ago

Right? I watched the entire NYT interview and probably yelled some variation of the word f**k at least a dozen times.

timpranillo.bsky.social•15 days ago

It’s really saying something to make me long for the days of Krysten fucking Sinema. Jesus what a complete tool.

stangleskid.bsky.social•14 days ago

Whoa whoa let’s not go too far haha

summerbreeze0102.bsky.social•14 days ago

Sinema wouldn’t even send people to El Salvador

tedbogin.bsky.social•15 days ago

Classic AZ Democrat moment

anotherdaphne.bsky.social•14 days ago

How do we change the process of get elected to espousing horror? short true story:
A relative of mine, in another country, got sick of corrupt politicians. So he bought time on a local TV station and ran his own rants that every incumbent should be voted out.

anotherdaphne.bsky.social•14 days ago

The audiences were so delighted that he was voted in to the national congress as a write-in. (He genuinely was not running). But okay, off he went to the capital. When he arrived, he asked to make a speech.

anotherdaphne.bsky.social•14 days ago

This was considered a bit bold for a newbie. But, the elders said, okay, pipsqueak, speak. He stood in the middle of the chamber and thundered that each of them there should resign in shame immediately because they were all corrupt and tainted.

anotherdaphne.bsky.social•14 days ago

Once the sensation was over, he was taken to a back room. Long periods of quiet.....then folks in his district complained he was getting too big for his britches. He backed the same old bad policies. He abandoned his wife and children....and died of a heart attack while still young.

anotherdaphne.bsky.social•14 days ago

In the very beginning, I liked him. He was handsome & charismatic, sure, but no bad vibes. He was also genuinely caring of his family, his clients, his country. I mean, like, are term limits enough? Are there other answers?

paprof4.bsky.social•14 days ago

@gallego.senate.gov wtf 🤬

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