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> The evidence they cited included his wearing of a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie and a confidential informant’s claim that Abrego Garcia belonged to MS-13’s “We
by duxup 2y ago
> The evidence they cited included his wearing of a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie and a confidential informant’s claim that Abrego Garcia belonged to MS-13’s “Westerns clique” in Long Island, New York, despite having never lived there.
Some pretty flimsy evidence…
And all this time this guy was what? Working and being productive like anyone else…
- pavlov 2y agoEliminate due process and you don't need evidence. Vibes-based justice is back. AI-driven deportations next?
- artificialiwhat 2y agoYou joke but https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/state-department-ai-revoke-foreign-student-visas-hamas# https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/state-department-ai-revoke-...
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- darioush 2y agojust an example of bureaucracy at work. this what happens when you centralize all decision making to people who have no local knowledge of the community they are administrating, and predicate their jobs on following a checklist, usually as implemented by buggy software, instead of making a judgement call based on experience and circumstances.
- yapyap 2y agoIf you go by the Marriam Websters definition of fascism this is getting pretty close. > Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition
- Tadpole9181 2y agoAs if this has anything to do with locality? Rulers of parcels of land small enough you could see it all from a single hill have been utter despots before. Heck, just look at how some parents treat their children. This is what happens when you elect a convicted felon, rapist, bullying loser compromised by the Russian state who outright says he wants to be a dictator and he puts sycophants and bullies into positions of power to do exactly that. Saying this is about local vs nonlocal governance is nothing more than shirking the responsibility of 70,000,000 Americans who wanted this and 100,000,000 Americans who couldn't be bothered to stop it.
- ckemere 2y agoI do think that there’s an aspect of small government that connects those 70M to their government in a way that large scale federalization may fail to do. Not sure how to achieve benefits of scale without this problem…
- nness 2y agoReminds me of all the Guantanamo Bay detainees that were suspected and held for just wearing a Casio F-91W digital watch...
- rayiner 2y ago“Working and being productive” is not a sufficient basis for being allowed to remain in the U.S.
- duxup 2y agoHow about being a legal resident? Either way I think it speaks to the effectiveness / end result of policy where you take someone working and being productive, paying taxes … and then expend government resources to prevent that (and apparently do a poor job at that even).
- rayiner 2y agoHe’s undisputedly in the country illegally, and both an immigration judge and the Board of Immigration appeals ordered his deportation for suspected gang ties: https://www.wmar2news.com/infocus/family-of-alleged-gang-member-deported-to-el-salvador-prison-sues-to-have-him-returned-to-baltimore https://www.wmar2news.com/infocus/family-of-alleged-gang-mem... (“Other court documents show an immigration judge ordered Abrego-Garcia to be removed from the U.S. back in April 2019 over his alleged gang ties.”)
- technothrasher 2y agoDid you miss the part where the same judge that authorized his deportation, also specified it to be somewhere other than El Salvador? It's right in the same article you quoted. That is central to the ICE screw up. It's not that they deported him, but that they ignored the court's ruling to not deport him to El Salvador, because they're ignoring due process and rushing things for political points.
- ty6853 2y agoWas that a real judge in the judicial branch or one of those 'judges' in the executive branch kangaroo courts?