Thank you @schiff.senate.gov for being one of the few democrats willing to talk about this. Calling attention to these immoral and unconstitutional moves is not a losing issue for dems! We need to get over our immigration ptsd. Innocent until proven guilty!
And still some of your party members collaborate with the fascists in the GOP... Get your 'house' in order, before complaining about the other 'house'...
Pretty sure many of us are thinking about those that are sitting in the El Salvadorian prison. We worry for their safety and survival, they were denied due process, many of the deportees may be innocent as well. This is a travesty.
Seriously Senator? Perhaps you should not have voted to confirm Mr. Rubio! Please be mindful that actions speak louder than words. Your constituents are still waiting for YOU to actually do something. Just reacting is absolutely not leading and certainly is not making us safe.
I am an American of Mexican descent. I went to college, graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and have a Master's degree in English Lit from the University of Michigan.
I am now retired. But I speak out frequently against Trump.
You are reiterating the obvious. The biggest question is if the 3rd branch of government (Congress) can be convinced to take action. The public is revolting but we don’t have the power congress should have.
Including you, sir, for they are now saying you are a traitor in your request for an investigation into trumps’ insider trading of stocks that he caused to crash due to his manipulations of tariffs. Regardless, your legal right to do so or the full support of the public . . . he is a dictator, now.
Go get him! What if a group of congresspeople go down there and get him? You are in control of the purse. Tell them they are in violation of the agreement- he must be returned. Explain- there will be a change in regime here. Jimmy Carter would be landing right now. Go!
What if they can't bring him back because he's already dead? What is the Senate going to do about that? Someone has to pay for this. And it can't happen again. Even if he was a criminal, why was he sent to an off shore gulag? Its illegal even for a criminal.
You’re going to have to push back a lot harder. I’m transgender and I’m one of your constituents from your district and I live in fear that this dictator who threatens my existence on a daily basis will do this to us!
How about you, @schiff.senate.gov, lead a Congressional delegation from the Senate and House Judiciary Committees to go to the gulag in El Salvador and bring all the people we know we're wrongfully renditioned back. Stop f*ucking talking and TAKE ACTION. Actions speak louder than words!!
Please stay focused on the insider trading. Yes- the guy does all kinds of terrible shit, but I think you really have them on this.
Trump is a cheater. On everything he can.
As your constituent I would like an explanation for your yea vote on Dan Caine. Are you seriously holding hearings on the lawlessness of this administration while voting to put its handpicked loyalists in charge of our national defense?
This is exactly why I think both parties are playing us like a fiddle. Their voting record is in stark contrast to their rhetoric. Even the “good” ones. The incongruity is alarming.
Senator, why haven't you engaged in performance art? Why haven't you pretended that you actually have the power to stop the Trump Train? Why don't you spend your days making me FEEL better about the inescapable reality? Flail your arms! Post "Fuck Trump" memes! Act like a Real American!!
Absolutely disgusting. Should not have happened in the first place, but once it did it should NEVER have required a Court to get him back. It should have been automatic with some type of payback for the mistake. (not that anything could really compensate). Scary times we live in.
Soooo…….. the Dem Congress admits it’s up to the people to fight back? WTF are we sending them to Congress for then? They truly ARE the party of Do Nothing Schumer. No wonder they won’t remove and replace him with a true fascist fighter. 🤬
We are doing what we can, and now we’re asking YOU and our other representatives to actively and aggressively ACT to stop this from happening at all! It’s your JOB!
You keep enabling the Orange Menace’s cruel policies, yet refuse to fight back like McConnell did—blocking 400 bills for six years. It’s time to give GOP fascists a taste of their own medicine.
Bring the Senate to a halt. Walk out. Do not allow ANY BUSINESS to progress. Drastic times. Every one of you should do a Cory Booker, not everyone can make 24 hrs but 12, c’mon. EVER SINGLE ONE.
I read The NY Times everyday and it just gets more and more horrible. The American people really need democrats like you to do something. We are scared and we need Democrats to stand up to all the horrible things going on.
trump E/Os
opened massive deforestation in the West ( Ca. )
Gutted funding for the Black history Museum
Plans to bring back Confederate Monuments to D.C.
SAVE ACT attacking women
DOGE given power of who is registered to vote
They either unwilling or unable to do anything about this. In any case democrats remain unclear about the options. I feel that they are not fighting hard enough for basic rights and due process.
Instead most of the Arab community decided to either vote for Trump or didn’t vote at all. Some Democrats didn’t vote either. They can’t do anything without any votes.
Everybody wants to go after the Democrats and tell them to do something. What can they do without the votes in both the Senate and the House? And how many people who are urging them to do something actually voted for them?
To all of our senators, congresswomen, and congressmen as well as all of the journalists and reporters that are doing their best to stand up for democracy and “truth”amidst the turmoil happening in our country right now, THANK YOU! 🙏🏼
For those who claim to be Christians:
Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them.
Matthew 24:11
And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
Corinthians 11:13-15
"For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness"
.. and risk deportation for protesting? That's where thats heading...
To your point... if they can't do anything just f n say so and why.
Atleast it's an answer.
So where are the organized protests? You might want to get going because organize chaos is going to be safer than chaos chaos. 🤷 Americans have had enough.
I think it's more appropriate to not say deport, as that indicates transferring someone back to their country of origin, but to call it as it is. This administration is engaging in human trafficking.
That is a term that is not popular and will stick against the GOP.
In other words resist physically with all your might-it’s better to end up in a hospital than a death camp. And have friends and neighbors record the whole thing, then immediately post on the internet before the Nazi goons take your phone.
Lawyer please. Codification. The use of the law to create safety within the law. That is why we want lawyers in public service, their job is protect and serve The Law. Feelings and understanding count for a lot. Because they inform the law. Please: more law, more lawyering. "Use it or lose it."
We are not safe from anything now, Sentator Schiff! Are the FAA, CDC, FDA, EPA, NTSB, TSA, FBI, DEA, CIA, or any other federal agency doing their best to keep Americans or foreigners who travel here to be safe? The answer is no due to this corrupt admin! Impeach now!!!!!!
I have one of those Cajun last names (Fuselier) that often prompt store clerks to ask, “How do pronounce that?” So I presume I could be whisked off to an El Salvador vacation at any time.
Senator, you didn’t really answer the question about what can be done by the Senate….to address this horrific turn of events in our country with the loss of Due Process and this basic right given to us in the Constitution.
Basically, there is no answer. Just like everything that is happening, there is no plans other than to go through the courts, while hoping that scum pile in the WH will comply with judges' orders.
I like Schiff, but he plays the 'gentleman statesman' role to such a degree that he won't throw down and get tactical when the situation calls for it. 🤨
It was YOUR job to hold Trump and his elected insurrectionists accountable during Biden's Presidency. Don't say, "look at what I've done", because Trump is in Office because of what you didn't do.
Please pass the Baton to AOC. What did Sen Schiff say, wait & see. Fuckin stop this fuckin BS now. It seems the Democrats want Trump too. They all hang out together in Venice FL like nothing happen. DEI has arrived & beautiful blacks ppl from stores we have known for yrs are being let go.
Sifting through Sen. Schiff's words, what I hear is, " There's nothing Congress can do. It's up to the citizens to stop the criminal Trump and his gang." Great.
Our elected representatives are unwilling to take a leadership role in defending our democracy. The reason for their unwillingness is a matter of speculation.
It pisses me off that they tell us that we the people have to save our country from fascism on our own and they take no responsibility for it because they are the ones with the legitimate power to stop it.
They don’t have the power. At least not right now. They’re the minority, doing everything they can. Bringing lawsuits, holding meetings in red districts. Using the filibuster… they need us, our voices. Our protests.
They want us to physically do something - assassination(s), storm Mar-a-lago, whatever. The people take ALL the risk. If it works, they take over. If it doesn't work, the regime doesn't come after them. There does need to be *some* form of government for after, but none of them has the guts to lead.
Our elections work on winner takes all, not coalitions. So there can't be more than two viable parties until we switch to ranked-choice or something similar.
I think that Trump will use Putin's methods - grab a journalist he hates, and send them off instantly to that prison. He can't take a Republican member of Congress because he'd loss a vote there.
Look for the next major target of "random abduction" to be members of the media. The despot's hatred for any group causes his cult to make credible threat to them and their families. It is assured that the DOJ won't investigate such threats, which may even be carried out.
So the question is what can we do - it seems that Latino's are particularly vulnerable and hated and need to be part of the coalition to push back at the ballot box
"In the U.S., tourism is among the three largest employers in 29 states ..."
"Tourists spend more money in the United States than in any other country ..."
One/more Senators can *publicly* say trump must be removed and then take whatever steps are needed. That will take more guts than any of them have. It will get ugly for a time, but short of assassination(s), it is the *only* way to stop the regime. The sooner it happens, the fewer are hurt.
One foot in front of the other to get there @algreen.house.gov @repjasmine.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @hirono.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social
Exactly this. This issue has huge implications. Thank you for being a partner on this. This is cruel.
The contract with El Salvador never should have happened. Please do anything in your power to bring these people back to the US and protect more family members against the risk of this fate.
Pls hold a shadow hearing w/ @padilla.senate.gov (ranking member of immigration subcommittee) and @raskin.house.gov highlighting human costs, legal wrongs, economic harms of "Prime Minister" Stephen Miller's hate policies. Get Jasmine Mooney to testify remotely https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
But people can't silently wait to be exterminated. That's what Jews did during Second World War. "Comply and you'll be fine". It didn't end up well for them.
How are you going to stop this? Do you have a mechanism where you can call an election if interference was detected? Canada has this as a safety feature against treason. Perhaps you can stick in in an already passed bill by doing an adjustment. Pls find a way Adam. It might be 🇺🇸's only hope.
You’re not telling us anything we don’t already know and quit telling us to do your job! Either lead us and face this asshole down or get the hell out of Congress and let someone with Liberty or Death at the end of the day lead us. FACE THIS FUCKER!!!
Exactly. And that is what the Drumpf administration is seeking - some feckless court (SCrOTUS is their target) that will eliminate “due process” and open the floodgates for their concentration camps in El Salvador. Without due process you can’t prove you’re a citizen before being deported.
When will you listen to your constituents, stop confirming trump nominees, we can't have your back if you don't have our back. We march, call, do all we can do, and you confirm an unqualified Joint Chief of Staff. How safe does that make us feel, stop working for MAGA
You probably are. Seriously, is ther NOTHING to stop this and our federal workers along with essential programs and departments being destroyed? We're fucking being crushed out here while you all sit pretty
Oversight is gone (IGs fired)
Courts are ignored
Congress is co-opted
Civil service hollowed out
Private interests have infiltrated policy
At this point, we’re not dealing with a functioning constitutional republic anymore. We’re dealing with a personalist autocracy with a captured state apparatus.
Even this misses the point. Such an error could happen to anyone, not only immigrants. In fact, completely innocent travellers have already been detained. The White House doesn’t want this man to come back and tell his story, that’s clear.
Exactly dude anyone can look like an "illegal alien" or whatever buzz word ya wanna use if ya ship em off without any process to a gulag in a foreign country. Whoops oh shit was that a popular TV personality that disagrees with the president. Too late not my jurisdiction. How's that any different?🇨🇦
From the perspective of someone who's family has been contributing blood, sweat, and tears to this country for over 200 years, this administration and those in congress that enable them are traitors.
It's interesting that this guy won't give you a definitive answer, just reiterates that, yeah, it's happening, and you, all of you, have to mobilize, not me, the elected representative. Oh no, what could I do alone? Useless. And if the politicians are this gormless, this will turn into a revolution.
It seems to me that the deportation of every single person to this pit of a jail in El Salvador without the possibility of getting out and the inability to contact anyone also violates the Constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
Is it possible to have an International Delegation be set up to go the prison in El Salvador to get this guy? The courts say he needs to be brought back. A delegation needs to go get him.
You talk the talk, sir, but you & all of the Dems* do not walk the walk. We're tired of words. action begging for action. Yet we get told, "legislation is being written," and, "We're investigating..."
Legislation is pointless without GOP support.
People in the streets need to be ready!! When the Nazis come to get you, fight back with deadly force! They are kidnapping you and ARE illegal! Stab, shoot… whatever you can to survive!! It’s your life or theirs and THEY don’t serve to breathe anymore!
You DID NOT ANSWER HER QUESTION you simply told us all that we already know. WHAT CAN YOU SENATORS DO to stop the madness, including the deportations!!?!?!?????
No kidding! WTH are all of you doing to change this situation? You should've called for an investigation of the first election that put him in office, AND the second one this past November.
What are you people waiting for, gallows on the W.H. front lawn?
To be #effective @schiff.senate.gov ; YOU have to get with the other #Democrat #SENATORS and forcibly #remove the #mole that is @schumer.senate.gov from POWER
Until this is done; you cannot stop the tRump Administration #schumer protects and defends!!
If they can facilitate the return of the Tate brothers........ Why can't they facilitate the return of an innocent man ASAP? This is not normal and blatant disregard for the rule of law. We need a special election YESTERDAY.
If they can bring back two brothers accused of rape, sex trafficking, and sexual assault, then they can go get this man back here to his family. But they don’t want to because it would upset their narrative of all immigrants being criminals.
Answer the lady’s question. Also what is being done to get Abrego Garcia back, who the Trump administration admitted should not have been deported? I’m sure there are others too. What is being done to get this man back? Why aren’t you politicians going down to that prison to check on his welfare?
It is time to remove the millstone from your voters necks.
I beg you to listen to plain common sense. You cannot be serious in opposition to fascism if you insist on keeping a millstone around my neck as I fight for my families lives.
Do they even have proof of life for Garcia after paying to send him to an El Salvadorian prison filled with the gang that caused him to seek asylum in the US to protect his family's life?
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Is this not a kidnapping case?
Schiff: I’m gonna punt the ball back to you.
Never got a response for some reason…
You want to be friends with canadians again ???
First, you will have to pay us for damages !!!
I am an American of Mexican descent. I went to college, graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and have a Master's degree in English Lit from the University of Michigan.
I am now retired. But I speak out frequently against Trump.
I am now 76 years old. But even I am not safe.
Trump is a cheater. On everything he can.
You are under investigation.
OR
Stay here and let America laugh at your perp walk.
Perhaps you will just be put into an American Federal Prison but It might be GITMMO.
GROW A FARGING SPINE ALREADY!
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/federal-officials-arrived-denied-entry-at-los-angeles-schools-amid-immigra/
trump E/Os
opened massive deforestation in the West ( Ca. )
Gutted funding for the Black history Museum
Plans to bring back Confederate Monuments to D.C.
SAVE ACT attacking women
DOGE given power of who is registered to vote
you got work to do buddy
sources say
Dan Caine is quite literally unqualified, and did not meet the traditional requirements for JCOS chair.
WELL??
DID YOU ??
The symbolism below is spot on, sadly and unfortunately so. I guess you can say at least we could identify the enemy by their clothing.
ATTENTION!
Available soon at a Trumpmart or Muskmart near you!
🪖🥾,not included.
"For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses:"
Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them.
Matthew 24:11
And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
"For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness"
To your point... if they can't do anything just f n say so and why.
Atleast it's an answer.
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That is a term that is not popular and will stick against the GOP.
The Praetorian Guard hacked up Caligula in a tunnel with senatorial approval.
Just sayin’…
What are you doing besides writing letters and posting on social media?!
Me: Dang I wish Californians had chosen Katie instead.
You did an excellent job restating the question, but you did NOT answer it.
She asked: What can YOU do in the SENATE to stop this?
Thank you. ~A
I like Schiff, but he plays the 'gentleman statesman' role to such a degree that he won't throw down and get tactical when the situation calls for it. 🤨
Kinda like our Supreme Court and DFT.
The Trump administration confirmed to a federal judge Saturday that a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/politics/2025/04/12/u-s--won-t-say-whether-it-s-facilitating-return-of-mistakenly-deported-man--despite-judge-s-order
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Asking if you have details about Global Rescue and if it is possible to upgrade our government NASA membership? #GlobalRescue🇺🇸🌎✨💙⛑️
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Like the messages 45 was giving to his buddies about the market?
There are 4 names at the top of the list; those that voted for the SAVE Act.
"Tourists spend more money in the United States than in any other country ..."
Well, who needs tourism?
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/AMR5192072025ENGLISH.pdf
The contract with El Salvador never should have happened. Please do anything in your power to bring these people back to the US and protect more family members against the risk of this fate.
what are you doing about it?
He’s not doing anything. Too busy moving stocks around
We are all in danger now.
People can be deported to El Salvador without due process,
and disappear there forever.
But people can't silently wait to be exterminated. That's what Jews did during Second World War. "Comply and you'll be fine". It didn't end up well for them.
It was almost like our leaders were starting to wake up now they seem to be back asleep.
He's completely useless.
Courts are ignored
Congress is co-opted
Civil service hollowed out
Private interests have infiltrated policy
At this point, we’re not dealing with a functioning constitutional republic anymore. We’re dealing with a personalist autocracy with a captured state apparatus.
OBSTRUCT LIKE YOU ARE MITCH MCCONNELL
Maybe jump on an episode of Gov. Newsom’s podcast with Joe Rogan or Charlie Kirk?
It's kidnapping and black bagging.
Say the right words.
You basically said WE have to keep making noise. Dude, you don’t want the kind of noise we can bring.
Do better.
Legislation is pointless without GOP support.
*I know there are a handful that have done more, but it's not enough.
you're not doing your duty to uphold the US constitution.
You voted for Rubio.
You are complicit.
you are not on our side.
and we will not forget this.
What are you people waiting for, gallows on the W.H. front lawn?
Until this is done; you cannot stop the tRump Administration #schumer protects and defends!!
If Chuck Schumer still leads the Dem caucus, I will not vote for any dem, for any reason, not even to save democracy, in any future election.
I beg you to listen to plain common sense. You cannot be serious in opposition to fascism if you insist on keeping a millstone around my neck as I fight for my families lives.