“How can I return him to the United States? I smuggle him into the United States? Of course I’m not going to do it. The question is preposterous,” Bukele said. “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States. We’re not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country.”

"To liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some. That’s the way it works,” Bukele told Trump. Abrego Garcia has not been charged with terrorism.

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    Man, its getting really hard to keep going to work. Its feeling like its time to just go ape shit on government properties.

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      I feel you there. I literally just started a new job today but I don’t see the place I’m working at to keep me long anyway.

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    Well, well…

    What’re the chances Mafia Don Mangolini “enticed” Bukele to say exactly this…

    🙄 🤡 🖕 🖕

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      It’s public record that the US government is paying him to incarcerate these people, I’m certain this exact scenario that’s playing out right now was an unwritten part of that deal

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        It’s the same reason weed is still illegal…

        If for profit prisons use prisoners as slave labor, they don’t just want violent criminals, violent criminals are hard to manage.

        They want innocent nonviolent people.

        Like, if they get $X for each prisoner, this guy is way easier to handle then someone who actually is a violent gang member. There’s no way they’d want to send him back. They want him as long as possible

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    WHY ISN’T THAT MOTHERFUCKER WEARING A SUIT IN THE OVAL OFFICE!? How DARE he disgrace that office!?

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    CECOT was always designed to be a Gulag.

    No access to legal counsel No rehabilitation No release dates Forced labour No talking

    American taxpayers are literally paying for a Gulag in another country that will eventually be housing American citizens (the “home-grown” comment).

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    Shutting down the government now and defunding ICE would be great ideas. Also they’re using planes for these deportations. Certain unions have power over this.

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    How are the FMLN working with this? It cannot be a popular move to import several hundred “criminal gangsters” when your country already suffers from major prison overcrowding.

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      They don’t need to. A big chunk of El Salvador believes human rights violations are a good thing so the more the merrier. It sounds terrible but even the Cartels aren’t as bad when it comes to abusing civilians as the Maras (they’re getting there, though) so it’s understandable that they have an immense resentment. This is how Bukele even got to power in the first place.

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    “What are you fucking kidding?” bukele asked. "I put the muzzle to his head and pulled the trigger exactly when your video showed you making the finger gun at the camera, just like you told me to "

    "Oh yeah, that was a good video I made, lots of people are going to see it "

    /S

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    Lemme guess tho! The same americans who talk shit about people who live in dictatorships and cheered their bombings of nations like Iraq/Afghanistan etc…. they will sit at home on their iphones and on the couch, while a tv show streams on the tv on the wall in front of them… and they’ll post so many comments and stuff.

    Lol but no chance in hell Americans tomorrow actually stand up and kick out this guy. Literally nothing will change at all. Other than the position of the sun in the sky.