Democratic lawmakers led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen say they are willing to go to El Salvador to seek the release of a man who the Justice Department says it mistakenly deported there — a plan that has gained steam after the country’s president said during a visit to the White House that he would not send the man back to the U.S.
And do what? Without a least an operational detachment behind them they aren’t going to be able to do anything but grandstand in front of CECOT. Bukele already said he isn’t giving anyone back.
That’s the thing that a lot of people keep misunderstanding. If the President of the US wants a person back from what I am going to describe as “A lesser country,” only for this exact moment, and not for any other case at all, he can get that person back. Send a battle group over, and ask politely.
El Salvador does not have the ability to keep him, if we want him back.
I feel it’s even stupider than that. The 2 met in person yesterday in DC. I was ready for them to bring the guy back and make a big show about how magnanimous he is to bring him back just to please the people or something.
But instead, Trump is all “well I couldn’t possibly tell the great nation of El Salvador what to do,” cameras pan over to Bukele, “uhhh, you want me to smuggle a guy into the US???”
You clowns are literally right next to each other, acting like the other person isn’t there. Bukele could say “hey, do you want the guy back?” and that would be that. But they just play a game with a guy’s life and Steve Miller goes and says he wants to do the same with everybody that looks at him wrong.
It’s even simpler than that - the US is paying, actively, 20k USD per person at CECOT. The US is fully in control over that arrangement.
Sometimes the spectacle is the point.
Yeah, and giving people a visual will help make this more real for them. I doubt this one press conference is going to be our turning point, but it’s at the very least a small step in the right direction and better than ignoring this.
What spectacle? They’re going to show up and look completely ineffectual.
No, it’s a hell of a lot more effective than what you’re doing with these Lemmy posts. They are doing the right thing and we should applaud whoever shows up to do that in these dark times.
Asked and answered.