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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61330470

Didn't they US used to send special forces out to rescue people like that in the past?

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[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 99 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

“How can I return him to the United States?” Bukele asked Monday during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. “I smuggle him into the United States? Of course I’m not going to do it."

It's good to know the people running the world have no fucking clue how the world runs.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

No, they know it would be easy, as if a prisoner release to a non-hostile is an eldritch incantation

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 50 points 2 months ago

That quote was... holy shit! I mean just say this is the man wrongly deported and put him on a passenger flight. First class at the very least.

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Trump is going to send American citizens to a place where they can never return, even if sent by accident. The sky has fallen. Why did nobody listen?

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Not nobody, just not the 85 million people who decided to fall asleep on election day.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

"But but but Biden bad!"

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 months ago

The US is paying El Salvador money to hold these people. Acting like there is nothing either can do is about as boldface a lie as there is. They can literally do anything they want and have control of both sides of any contracts.

This is them saying “what are you going to do about it?” And what should happen is people need to keep the pressure on so Congress sides with the courts asap (and this guys’ Senator is flying there next week to see him personally).

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm kind of glad. I want the Supreme Court to realize sooner rather than later that Trump won't listen to them and that they're not his friend, just useful patsies.

I'm sorry for all the people that are caught up in Trump's bullshit. That guy is fucking evil.

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

And then what? He will just ignore them, then stack the courts if not simply replace the SC judges. Who is going to stop him at this point? He got away with every single crime in his life, of which there are too many to count. He's ignoring court orders and ruling by illegal executive orders. Nothing but an armed insurrection is going to stop him now.

This ship has sailed and won't change course without a mutiny.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

A lot of people are caught up in trumps bullshit because they are shitty people. Magats wanted this because they are selfish, idiotic monsters. Trump is the symptom and they’re the disease

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

There is no way that these two didn't talk about how to answer that question before the press event. This isn't the president of El Salvador saying he doesn't want to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, it's him saying that he is on Trump's side.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Damn we shouldn't let him go home.

Like protesters need to arrest him and use him for a prisoner swap

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

“I asked the hit man to not carry out what I ordered and he said no. But of course I’m still paying him. See how powerless I am?”

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is specifically not what he said. He says he differs to the state department who won't accept him because now they're saying he's a terrorist.

This is Trump's choice, not bukeles imposition.

[–] gex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He could release him even if the US doesn't want him back, but that would risk his black site contract

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Correct that still means it's trump refusing not bukele.

[–] AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It's not el Salvador's responsibility to transport him back to the US.

I don't think he is being stopped from leaving, but it's up to the US to make it right, not El Salvador

EDIT: it wasn't clear from the article that he was being held in a prison. My bad on that.

Absolutely should be released, but it is still not on El Salvador to send him to the US.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What? He’s in a prison. Please correct me if I’m mistaken but generally “walking right on out” is like the one thing they get all weird about

[–] AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah my bad, didn't realise he was being held in a prison. The article linked is just a tiny snippet so I was missing context.

[–] boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I don't think he is being stopped from leaving, but it's up to the US to make it right, not El Salvador

Other than the fact that he’s in a death camp, nothing is stopping him from walking home!

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Because trump paid them to murder these men. A satellite image of a mound of bloody bodies is being circulated online. They’re having masked right wing militants like the proud boys and oath keepers kidnap people shove them into unmarked cars and they are mass murdering them in El Salvador.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is the most single pointless genocide ever committed then. The nazis and zionist want(ed) to kill everyone because they want the land... but Trump and Americans gain absolutely nothing by killing these people. If anything they lose a lot since the overwhelming majority of these people were vital workers.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

You’re incorrect Hitler started his regime with the brown shirts SA committing widespread state sponsored domestic terrorism to stamp out any dissent

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)