Sen. Chris Van Hollen said if the Maryland man whom the administration acknowledged mistakenly deporting was not back in the U.S. by 'midweek,' the senator would travel to El Salvador.

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.

  • anon6789@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    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.