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It doesn’t matter, the damage is done. If you’re an international student, are you going to risk an El Salvador gulag?

by mperham 1y ago

IAmBroom 1y ago
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- platevoltage 1y ago
  If people are being deported without a hearing, it literally doesn't matter. You or I can be deported if we don't get a chance to prove our status.
- fullstop 1y ago
  The government has already revoked student visas, the next step is deporting them to El Salvador.
  - dragonwriter 1y ago
    Or Libya [0] or <random_third_country>. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/libya-deportations-immigrants-trump https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/libya-deport... [1] e.g., https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-administration-deported-migrants-south-sudan https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-admini...
- cherryteastain 1y ago
  There were many recent instances of even long term US permanent residents being sent to immigration detention centers. Maybe El Salvador gulag is an exaggeration, but being sent to a squalid prison is a very real possibility. Here's one from yesterday [1]. What's preventing them from doing the same to a student? Also, most people affected by this will not be the son/daughter of the president of a foreign country or a billionaire. [1] https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-holder-detained-ice-immigration-2075236 https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-holder-detained-ice-immi...
thaumasiotes 1y ago
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- ceejayoz 1y ago
  Because they accidentally sent at least one person there already? Who remains there, despite SCOTUS ordering his return? https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf > Instead of hastening to correct its egregious error, the Government dismissed it as an “oversight.” > The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.
  - thaumasiotes 1y ago
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    - ceejayoz 1y ago
      > International students are on the Meng Wanzhou end of things. The vast majority of them (of which there are over a million) don't have a Wikipedia page, nor are they "Deputy chairwoman and CFO" of a company as big as Huawei. Rumeysa Ozturk sat in jail for six weeks for writing an op-ed. I assure you, there are plenty of international students you can mistreat without causing a major diplomatic incident.
    - dragonwriter 1y ago
      > They sent a Salvadoran who nobody cared about to El Salvador. They sent a lot of people, mostly not Salvadoran, to El Salvador [0] without due process, the one Salvadoran just gets covered more in the news because, as well as the issues applicable to the others, he had a existing court order prohibiting his deportation to El Salvador specifically. [0] And they've done or attempted to do that to Libya, South Sudan, and other third countries to whom the deported have no connection, as well.
  - klipt 1y ago
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It doesn’t matter, the damage is done. If you’re an international student, are you going to risk an El Salvador gulag?

IAmBroom 1y ago

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platevoltage 1y ago
If people are being deported without a hearing, it literally doesn't matter. You or I can be deported if we don't get a chance to prove our status.
fullstop 1y ago
The government has already revoked student visas, the next step is deporting them to El Salvador.
- dragonwriter 1y ago
  Or Libya [0] or <random_third_country>. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/libya-deportations-immigrants-trump https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/libya-deport... [1] e.g., https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-administration-deported-migrants-south-sudan https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-admini...
cherryteastain 1y ago
There were many recent instances of even long term US permanent residents being sent to immigration detention centers. Maybe El Salvador gulag is an exaggeration, but being sent to a squalid prison is a very real possibility. Here's one from yesterday [1]. What's preventing them from doing the same to a student? Also, most people affected by this will not be the son/daughter of the president of a foreign country or a billionaire. [1] https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-holder-detained-ice-immigration-2075236 https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-holder-detained-ice-immi...

thaumasiotes 1y ago

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ceejayoz 1y ago
Because they accidentally sent at least one person there already? Who remains there, despite SCOTUS ordering his return? https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf > Instead of hastening to correct its egregious error, the Government dismissed it as an “oversight.” > The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.
- thaumasiotes 1y ago
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  - ceejayoz 1y ago
    > International students are on the Meng Wanzhou end of things. The vast majority of them (of which there are over a million) don't have a Wikipedia page, nor are they "Deputy chairwoman and CFO" of a company as big as Huawei. Rumeysa Ozturk sat in jail for six weeks for writing an op-ed. I assure you, there are plenty of international students you can mistreat without causing a major diplomatic incident.
  - dragonwriter 1y ago
    > They sent a Salvadoran who nobody cared about to El Salvador. They sent a lot of people, mostly not Salvadoran, to El Salvador [0] without due process, the one Salvadoran just gets covered more in the news because, as well as the issues applicable to the others, he had a existing court order prohibiting his deportation to El Salvador specifically. [0] And they've done or attempted to do that to Libya, South Sudan, and other third countries to whom the deported have no connection, as well.
- klipt 1y ago

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