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I get it, you want someone to admit he was an undocumented immigrant, but sending an undocumented immigrant to an El Salvador prison without due process is repugnant. And, to unpack that further, sending prisoners to another country to wash your hands of them and how they are treated in captivity is repugnant in all cases, regardless of the crime. "Why he was sent to that prison" can be answered simply with "because this administration said so," and that is the problem that needs addressed, not whatever this man may or may not have done.


Moreover, in some countries it's actually honorable to be on a "wanted" list, like terrorist, extremist, tax evasion etc. Because that lists are often used as oppression against opponents. E.g. Russia routinely does that against pacifists. Khodorkovsky was jailed for 10 years for "stealing" from his own company after he announced his West-leaning political ambitions.


I doubt he was a random immigrant. There must be something else to this story.


And you're not getting that that's not the point. Are you saying that you think it is good public policy for the US to send some prisoners to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, and you're just reserving judgment until you are able to determine whether or not this specific guy deserved it?




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