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Laura G, Sassy 70’s Apr 15, 2025

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele (who has referred to himself as the world’s “coolest dictator”) refuses to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Our Justice Department conceded in court that he had been deported due to an administrative error. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled the Administration needs to facilitate his return to the USA. President Trump claims he doesn’t have the power to have him returned. El Salvador’s president, who, remember calls himself a dictator, says he can’t, flat refuses. #dueprocess #dueprocessnow
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The man was not here illegally. Bukele had a permit from the Homeland Security Department to legally work in the U.S. In 2019 an immigration judge ordered that he not be deported. The Justice Department has produced zero evidence that he was involved in a drug gang. Zero. None.

Let’s be very clear. Every person in the United States is entitled to due process by the constitution. We find this in BOTH the Fourteenth Amendment and the Fifth Amendment: no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”

The Administration has, therefore, acted lawlessly. If this can happen to an immigrant, don’t assume you’re safe because you’re a citizen.

I will close with this from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: “The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy.” #DueProcess

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