Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
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It's the thinking that got us here in the first place.
Which makes this all the more remarkable, because these are the guys who invented trickle-down, yet TFG has lost them.
Kerbin Martinez-Vargas: https://www.facebook.com/share+/v/18AwLiHrJ5/
Jonathan Mendoza Ramirez: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/14HxEjp18ip/
Jose Rubio Petrola: https://diariolitoral.com/mandale-la-bendicion-a-mi-mama-dijo-jose-rubio-testimonio-de-milagros-petrola-video/
Luis Carlos Ortega, whose mother reports he had legal TPS status and a Social Security number: https://eltiempove.com/dos-margaritenos-detenidos-en-ee-uu-podrian-estar-apresados-en-el-salvador/
Maikel Rojas Olivera, who entered via the CBP One app: https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2025/03/2025.03.28.0067-Exhibit.18-16.pdf
Seriously?
How come anybody (other than South African white supremacists) travels to the US any more?
For me as a European, the US has become a no-go zone.
There are many beautiful places in the world that aren't so crazy and divided.
Good rest and rehabilitation, American friends.
We're thinking of you.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1924495592249540639.html
Will they also speak up about impoundment- also trashing the Constitution?
Anyone refusing to report on this as THE GOAL of their abhorrent KKKristofascist behavior is ultimately assisting in disseminating the deterrent info.
@nytimes.com @theguardian.com @democrats.senate.gov
Shipped to a prison where they work for "freedom".
In the name of their modern day holy bible king president.
They too might turn out to belong to the 50+ group of legal and innocent but wrongly sent to El Salvador.
In the worst case that would be 130+ persons illegally and criminally (by ICE, DHS ) sent to El Salvador !!!
This is kidnapping; this is hostage-taking.
This is despicable. I’ll never forgive anyone who voted for this.
And it’s not even front page news 😮
@vanhollen.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social @brennancenter.org
@newyorkstateag.bsky.social @newjerseyoag.bsky.social
I guess that y'all are determined to smuggle dishonest and harmful fascist mythology into your (otherwise great) critiques of the current authoritarian injustices.
Large amount of them seemed to have used the CBP app, for example. I heard theories that this was how they were selected for CECOT, how likely is it, @davidjbier.bsky.social ?
Don’t stop, if possible. The work is just beginning, & will be invaluable when Don & his MAGAlytes are brought to account for their traitorous actions……
I disagree with a lot of their ideas (but only because they're based on core principles incompatible with a thriving free society), the data speaks for itself.
Had no idea there were 50.
This is sickening on a whole new level.
I need a smarter spellcheck.
Who wants that? A grifter president?
Regardless of the cause: how much will maga need to pay for these gross crimes against humanity?
At least FIFTY INNOCENT IMMIGRANTS were KIDNAPPED and HAD THEIR LIVES DESTROYED BY DONALD TRUMP.
Trump MUST GO TO PRISON for this.
Ask Trump, he’ll say I don’t know anything about it.
Don't add to their narrative.
I will never forget they could have been any of us.
That's an 80% FAILURE RATE.
Thank Christ none of these people are surgeons. With odds like THAT...🤷♂️
then we demand this to be done.
Talk is cheap when the threat has no bones.
OMG!! No wonder this country is in DIRE TROUBLE.
It is all right-wing media stations or pitiful mainstream nonsense. except my [email protected] - love them!
By August, the negative effects of DOGE govt cuts, firings, GOP budget and Trump's tariffs will be felt by all Americans.
“People across the country, including many #Republicans, are expressing concern about the breadth and depth of proposed cuts to #foodassistance, #healthcare, and other public services…
#Handsoff
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-2672071839/
Koch orgs helped to fund Trump's reelection & Project 2025 (millions of dollars):
The article is from March 2024:
The family has been trying to get over the stink of profiting from their collaboration with Stalin and Hitler ever since.
Koch wants to be lauded as a philanthropist and have people grovel to him.
Loathsome creature, fetid soul.
tl;dr, they're the "immigration is good and it's fine to be gay" libertarians, not the "Authoritarianism is good when it's my white friends" ones.
https://www.cato.org/immigration
The GOP.
- opposes child labor prohibitions
- opposes public sector unions, and supports right-to-work laws.
Etc.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, as it were.
“The Shining City on a Hill”
evaporated in a month.
Please, no lectures about drawing distinctions between innocent and guilty detainees. Yes, that prison’s conditions are inhumane, and yes, all of the prisoners were denied due process. No one deserves that, guilty or not. No government should have that illegal power.