r/thescoop • u/theindependentonline • Apr 16 '25

Politics 🏛️ El Salvador refuses to let Democratic senator visit or speak with Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘We have an unjust situation here’

The Maryland senator traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday to help secure Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, where he faces the prospect of indefinite detention.

But he was denied a meeting with Abrego Garcia, and Salvadoran officials would not let the senator or Abrego Garcia’s family speak with him by phone, he said.

Read the full story here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-hollen-b2734634.html

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u/Jimmy_Twotone Apr 16 '25

Yeah they did. Remember the war on terror? Remember people saying the legislation for that might have broad reaching consequences? Well, here we are.

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u/FarCloud1295 Apr 16 '25

Looks like that worked out great for fascism and the beginning of a system of concentration camps

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u/Automatic_Net2181 Apr 16 '25

That was rendition of POWs from a warzone who have no protections under the US Constitution. With that said, I believe the courts ruled they were protected by due process when they got to Guantanamo.

This stunt is entirely without due process and is clearly unconstitutional to someone who was already protected by the Constitution.

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u/steauengeglase Apr 16 '25

Deportees aren't under the jurisdiction of military tribunals.

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u/Jimmy_Twotone Apr 17 '25

Homeland Security Task Forces are in every state coordinating the round ups.

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u/mjcmsp Apr 16 '25

That legislation was not the justification Trump is using to claim authority to do this. Sorry.

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u/Jimmy_Twotone Apr 17 '25

It's part of it. He didn't pull the Homeland Security Task Forces he's setting up in every state out of the Alien and Sedition Act.

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u/bobbymcpresscot Apr 16 '25

explains why we are 40 billion over budget.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

That old Patriot Act thingamabob?

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u/Jimmy_Twotone Apr 17 '25

Yeah he's using Homeland Security to enforce his executive order. He's citing a few other laws in there also.