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RantWoman is not a lawyer. That fact does not prevent her from asking questions and asking questions. And laying fingers to keyboard cuts the possibility that RantWoman's head will explode.

RantWoman's comment

Thank you for the recitation of Harvard contributions.

People MUST start litigating which of the Velveeta Voldemort outrages fall outside the boundaries of "official acts."

Part of what was gross to me about the conversation with Bukele was Bukele saying, based on ZERO due process in either The US or El Salvador that Mr. Garcia is a terrorist and why would he send a terrorist into the US?

I hope to GOD there are people in El Salvador who can and will call BS on the prisons for hire topic for exactly the same reason. Why should El Salvador let the US send thenm Venezuelans? The MS 13 issue is different but people in the US accused of being MS 13 are still entitled to due process.

Mr. Garcia's wife is a US citizen. The US DOES IN FACT, at least sometimes, help the family members of other US citizens unlawfully detained abroad and that should absolutely happen in this case.

In other words, horrific reality notwithstanding, I refuse to believe the whole mess is hopeless

And from Rachel Madow

Trump exposed in hot mic moment planning further abuse of power

and of course with a RantWoman comment.

So aside from playing silly games with the wording of #SCOTUS rulings, wanna bet that part of the point of this drama is to distract everyone from all the disastrous fallout from his tariffs, or to take everyone's eyes off the markets and a bunch of insider trading and financial market shenanigans?

That said, when asked about returning Mr. Garcia, Mr Bukele made some comment about "why would we send our terrorists to the US?" Terrorists according to whose due process???

BUT if he is going to play that card, shouldn't the people of El Salvador have a choice about which "terrorists" they are willing to receive in their government's prisons for hire gig?

And, serious question, what is Mr. Bukele going to do when all the people working in the US get deported and stop sending money home to prop up the economy.

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RantWoman's questions

I keep saying in human rights terms, there is a straight line from Abu Ghraib to this case. I hesitate to ask what if anything the concept of "due process" means in El Salvador, but what possibility is there for Mr. Garcia to petition the salvadoran government for release? If the US really cared, shouldn't someone under normal diplomatic order be able to hire a Salvadoran lawyer to assist with petitions. That would definitely be a step to FACILITATE release. What I saw of Trump and Bukele comments: "Bukele was saying but why would I send a terrorist to the US???" And if the US is going to try to send citizens to El Salvador, is there any basis under Salvadoran law for citizens to call BS on this prisons for hire scheme? I know the political atmosphere in El Salvador makes this difficult, but I figure it's worth asking. Mr. Garcia's wife is a US citizen. He will have a US citizen child. (The part of my brain that finds Stephen Miller disgusting half suspects that one more brown baby probably sticks in his craw. I DON'T CARE) Anyway, is there anything Mr. Garcia's wife can do either in the US or in El salvador to facilitate further progress? What finally won people held at Guantanamo to get legal representation? Is it just that people were finally in a US base or something else? Is any of it applicable here?