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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

> 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.






Much more than one: https://www.cato.org/blog/50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salva...

50+ Venezuelans Imprisoned in El Salvador Came to US Legally, Never Violated Immigration Law


That wasn’t an accident - it was a mistake, but there was nothing accidental about it.

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> 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.


> 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.




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