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Deporting the most vulnerable members of society to forever prison in El Salvador, then telling the president of that country (on camera) that he needs to build four or five more forever prisons so Trump can start sending the "homegrowns".
Illegal immigrant gang members? What?
Have you seen any evidence of illegal immigrant gang members?
...are they in the room with us now?
Yes. The only people who have been sent to El Salvador were illegal immigrants with proven gang affiliation.
No, it was notably never proven. There's been no opportunity for anyone to review ICE's evidence. That's a big part of why everybody's riled up about it.
Garcia was proven in court in 2019 to be MS-13.
Every single one of them was in the country illegally to, and the Alien Enemies Act or whatever it’s called lets them these gang members and affiliates without further trials.
And either way - what is the “existential threat to a group of people for simply existing” like the original claim?
They have already deported not just legal permanent residents, but actual citizens including a two year old girl.
(whoops, wrong person!)
They didn’t “deport” any two year old girl. The parents who were deported chose to take their 2 year old with them, because you know…..she’s 2 so she can’t really fend for herself in the USA. She can come back when she can.
Garcia is one person, who was already handled by the courts and was not a danger. Is that two year old US citizen also guilty of gang membership?
The 2 year old didn’t go to jail. Do you think a 2 year old should be left in the USA by themself? Do you think their parents would want that, or would they want them to go with them back to their home country?
Garcia “not being a danger” is not only debatable, but also irrelevant. His wife took out an AVO on him at one stage, so that signals he might be a danger anyway.