Trump has done *a lot* of criminal, horrible, impeachable shit.
But, if the Trump administration fails to return Garcia, or if any harm has come to him, it will be hands down the most illegal and deplorable action of any US president.
Let's be clear:
-Garcia, while a minor, fled gang targeting in El Salvador and illegally entered the US.
-While here, he eventually married a US citizen, testified against the Barrio 18 gang (even though it risked him being deported) and attempted asylum claims.
-In 2019, he was granted a "Withholding of Removal" and a work permit and so was living in Maryland legally.
-Whenever you are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, whether legally or illegally, you have inalienable rights - the very ones the President's oath of office claims to uphold and defend.
-Garcia was arrested on suspicion of gang activity, and departed with foreign prisons in El Salvador.
The problem is:
-There was no proof given.
-He had a "Withholding of Removal" which meant he could not be deported.
-The government argued they were aware of this withholding order but that he had been departed "by mistake" without any further hearing in court.
Courts had ordered the planes turnaround, an order which according to a passenger affidavit the pilots were aware of, but they were given instructions to ignore.
A Maryland court ordered him returned by no later than April 7th.
The government failed to return him.
The Supreme Court reviewed the case on April 10th and unanimously ordered that the US government must facilitate Garcia's return.
Since then Trump's administration has continued to play games, making excuses of why he cannot be returned, or failing to give updates - with many speculating that Garcia, who testified against gangs he was now in prison with, may not even be alive any more.
At the direction of the President:
-People subject to US jurisdiction were rounded up and deported without time for habeas hearings.
-Including *legal* US residents, against a judges order, who are subject to all rights and protections within the United States.
-Instructions to return the plane were ignored.
-Instructions from a state court were ignored.
-Now the Supreme Court has been ignored.
And the President who is supposed to be the most powerful man in the world, who has a duty to defend and protect those subject to US jurisdiction from wrong-doing, claims that he can't get this man back from El Salvador.
If any harm has come to Garcia, it is blood on the President's hands.
The protections he has ignored would have led to the direct harm of a US resident.
And it will forever be a stain on America, this shameful president, and on the court of John Roberts who allowed for a tyrant to exercise such authorities so repeatedly unchecked.
If you paid $1 In federal income taxes, you paid more than:
Tesla in 2024 & 2022
AT&T in 2021
Nike in 2020
FedEx in 2020
Dish Network in 2020
Amazon in 2017-2018
Elon Musk in 2018
Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011
Carl Icahn in 2016-2017
Yes. It’s time to tax the rich.
🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
It is obscenely racist and a form of genocide whitewashing to act like two dead Israeli children is earth shattering news while actively ignoring or justifying the 20,000+ Palestinian children viciously and violently exterminated by the Israeli state
WHEN YOU EDIT THE LORD’S PRAYER to include “Trump” and “America,” you are showing who your Lord and Savior really is.
Oddly enough, they skipped the “deliver us from evil” portion.
Donald Trump — the twice impeached former president, Jan. 6 coup leader, convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser, and man who mismanaged the 2020 economic implosion and coronavirus disaster that killed more than 1 million people in this country — has convinced American voters to give him another term in the White House.
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