dmallord
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You call yourself a defender of the law, but your argument betrays a fundamental misunderstanding — or worse, a willful disregard — of what the rule of law actually requires.I think the biggest problem with the "he's going to deport Americans next!!" narrative is that the ones he's talking about sending to El Sal are convicted criminals who have been sentenced to prison already.
There's nothing in the law which says that a convicted person has to be imprisoned inside the US. Or held in a US run/controlled prison. Or even a government prison.
So the basic premise in the story, utterly fails.
You're defending the deportation of individuals who haven’t been charged, tried, or convicted — as if due process is some optional courtesy instead of a constitutional guarantee. In the case of Kilmar Ábrego García, a man with legal status was ripped from his life in the U.S. and dumped in a foreign prison based on flimsy, post-hoc allegations of gang affiliation. No trial. No chance to contest the accusations. No legal process whatsoever. That’s not law enforcement — that’s state-sponsored abduction.
You seem to think the ends justify the means as long as the target is someone you’ve already decided is guilty. But that’s not how our system works. The Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments don’t evaporate because someone in power, a Trump sycophant, whispers “gang member.” You don’t get to sidestep centuries of legal precedent just because you find the accused unsympathetic.
If you support actions like this — actions that strip people of their liberty without trial — then you're not standing up for the law. You're standing for authoritarianism, plain and simple. Don’t wrap it in the flag of legality. The Constitution doesn’t bend for your political convenience.