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An 'Administrative Error' Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
- nielsbot 2y agoWell, what did you expect? And what happened to "we're deporting criminals"? Not only are they deporting non-criminals, they're sending them to a prison camp in El Salvador! That's not deportation! This is exactly why we have the due process this administration is intent on violating. How soon until we start snatching up citizens in the same way?
- jshier 2y agoThat's the point, test the will of the people by "accidentally", though completely predictably, sending citizens to El Salvador for literally nothing, then move on to the admin's real enemies if the outcry isn't loud enough.
- Jtsummers 2y agoHe isn't a US citizen, he did have protected status and, if ever deported, was not supposed to be deported to El Salvador. He fled it in 2011 to escape gangs.
- voxl 2y agoCitizenship is completely irrelevant. Due process applies to all persons on US soil, full stop. Without due process you are unable to even demonstrate citizenship to a judge, making the ICE member that dislikes you judge, jury, and executioner.
- Jtsummers 2y ago> Citizenship is completely irrelevant. I was responding to this: >> test the will of the people by "accidentally", though completely predictably, sending citizens to El Salvador for literally nothing What's happened here shouldn't have happened, but we should focus on the facts and not add embellishments.
- yawpitch 2y agoThat isn’t an embellishment, it is, I’d say rather obviously, a statement about the next domino to fall. A domino that has most likely already fallen.
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- anon7000 2y agoBut, importantly, you wouldn’t be sent straight to jail when you get detained and deported, and you should get due process to ensure you were actually in the wrong.
- weird-eye-issue 2y agoYou are wrong. You do get sent straight to detention and the conditions there are terrible. Then they take you from detention and escort you to the plane for deportation. And that's if you're lucky and you're able to pay the fees and for the deportation flight. There are some people who get stuck in the detention for months and even years Under no circumstances would they just let you out and hope you show up to court like they do in the US If that sounds ridiculous just Google it, there's plenty of evidence to back it up including a really recent report where somebody smuggled in a phone to take pictures of the terrible conditions Example: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14303933/brit-tourist-thai-prison-conditions-filthy.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14303933/brit-touri... https://www.ladbible.com/news/world-news/thailand-laws-explained-overstaying-visa-ellis-matthews-518364-20250317 https://www.ladbible.com/news/world-news/thailand-laws-expla...
- nielsbot 2y agoHe wasn't in the country illegally. So, what's the crime? Don't you think it's dangerous to not just deport legal immigrants but to send them to a prison camp for hire in El Salvador which is run by a Trump sycophant? FWIW: It is legal to seek asylum under US and international law. Not to mention the cruelty, bigotry and racism behind this all. Immigrants are the strength of the US. They contribute to our culture, population, and economy while getting little in return, relatively speaking.
- weird-eye-issue 2y agoAccording to court documents he was in MS-13
- boothby 2y agoThe most terrifying part of the administration's theory is that the president should have unilateral and unchecked authority over who is allowed to be in the country. As tiring as it is to see so much of American politics here, we need to be shouting from the rooftops. This cannot continue. Things have gone entirely too far and Trump is just getting started.
- pas 2y agoHow soon? -2 weeks? https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/03/13/chicago-attorneys-accuse-federal-agents-of-violating-immigrants-rights-and-take-legal-action https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/03/13/chicago-attorney... https://www.aclu-il.org/en/press-releases/22-people-arrested-ice-raids-announce-federal-court-action-challenging-unlawful https://www.aclu-il.org/en/press-releases/22-people-arrested...
- gorbachev 2y agohttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-raid-newark-new-jersey-trump-b2685888.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic... They sent the brown shirts to New Jersey to arrest anyone brown. If you didn't have your papers with you, they arrested you, citizen or not. If you were white, you were ok obviously.
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- briandear 2y agoThis guy was an MS13 member: https://x.com/sonofhas/status/1906906503111676278?s=46 https://x.com/sonofhas/status/1906906503111676278?s=46
- sonotathrowaway 2y agoYou’re an ms-13 member, actually.
- UncleMeat 2y agoUnited Center has a capacity of 23,500 MS-13 members apparently.
- maeil 2y agoLooking forward to see the next non-Trump administration (not that there will be one while he's alive) send him to an Iranian prison due to an "Administrative Error" due to forgetting his "protected status".
- jayemar 2y agoCan you expand on what you mean with this comment? Even if it's joke, I don't understand what's being implied.
- mitchbob 2y agohttps://archive.ph/LGs2Z https://archive.ph/LGs2Z
- quelsolaar 2y agoAs a foreigner to the US, this gives you real pause about working or even visiting the US, even if you have all your papers in order. I guess that's the point.
- 4ndrewl 2y ago100 percent. These stories are good for The Administration. Be fraid. And enjoy the third term.
- Scipio_Afri 2y ago"He is asking the court to order the Trump administration to ask for Abrego Garcia’s return and, if necessary, to withhold payment to the Salvadoran government, which says it’s charging the United States $6 million a year to jail U.S. deportees." $6 MILLION A YEAR?! For how many deportees? >Abrego Garcia’s family has had no contact with him since he was sent to the megaprison in El Salvador, known as the CECOT. His wife spotted her husband in news photographs released by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on the morning of March 16, after a U.S. District Judge had told the Trump administration to halt the flights. >“Oopsie,” Bukele wrote on social media, taunting the judge. The El Salvadoran president sounds more like a dictatorial sociopath..
- anon7000 2y agoWhy the fuck are jailing deportees in other countries anyways.
- anal_reactor 2y agoBecause it's fun. I'm not joking. This is the real answer.
- tobyhinloopen 2y agoCruelty is the point. Cruelty is what the American people want. The American people are not victims of a dictatorship, they voted for this.
- matwood 2y agoIt's the first line in the article: but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up. The point is if they disappear people quickly enough, they think this argument will fly.
- anal_reactor 2y ago> The El Salvadoran president sounds more like a dictatorial sociopath.. Not his problem. He doesn't have any authority over the US legal system, the only thing he's doing is "renting out" prison cells. It's up to the US fix its legal procedures, it shouldn't be the responsibility of El Salvador to question the legality and morality of who exactly gets sent to prison.
- fjfaase 2y agoThat Trump and Musk have not been arrested yet, or at least impeached, for grossly violating the constitution shows that the USA has turned into a fascist state by the congress and the senate.
- pas 2y agoUnfortunately the general population trusts what Republicans say about immigration. And this seem to give them a carte blanche apparently. https://www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-cant-hide-from-immigration https://www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-cant-hide-from-immigr... The boring and likely true answer is that the US has always been at least a bit fascistic. As every state. (As every official brings their own biases, which then shows up as errors in the workings of the state, which then leads to injustices, and so on.) There was always a lot of "fuck yeah America" which many times meant fuck anyone else. And initially America only meant white America, right? This doublespeak is not new. (Immigration quotas and disenfranchisement of various ethnic groups is not new. Redlining affected anyone non-white.) Now as the culture, the zeitgeist, jurisprudence and laws are regressing (to some mean?) the US is becoming a lot more fascistic.
- angryantant 2y ago@dang, hn should seriously consider disabling flagging, the "I'm comfortable with the nazi crowd" is, I'm sure, a minority
- rhdllibc 2y agoYou may be much too optimistic about the majority of the people who use this forum, or more importantly to its algorithm, perform the majority of engagement. > lots of people flag stories about the Trump administration. I didn't flag this one .. but I flag most of the other ones. > I'm going to keep flagging all of them, because these stories are all activating and attract tons of upvotes and comments, filling the front page with repetitive recapitulations of the same tired arguments. It's not what HN is for. -tptacek https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465123
- sershe 2y agoI'd rather they ban political posters trying to turn the place into another subreddit dump where they can call everyone they dislike Nazis
- perihelions 2y agoGift link, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/?gift=Tsjgy5hc-Y7tsZCY3EHYrWOoNzx9Xi-w5fH-zT91Z90 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-admi...
- briandear 2y agoMore to the story: a judge in 2019 determined he was an MS13 member: https://x.com/sonofhas/status/1906906503111676278?s=46 https://x.com/sonofhas/status/1906906503111676278?s=46
- zzrrt 2y agoThis was covered in the original article. There was no real evidence, he was not convicted of anything, and the court ultimately gave him protection from being returned to El Salvador. Those are the facts that should have been weighed in a deportation trial, which the government skipped and now say they can’t get him back from his foreign jailer. If Trump’s government can do this to him, they can do it to anyone in the US.
- dralley 2y agoNo, he did not. He was detained based on an accusation, but charges were never filed due to lack of evidence and he was determined to have a valid asylum claim. That is not even slightly close to "a judge determined he was MS-13"