Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people back to their own country?
Since we're using El Salvador like it's a new Gitmo. Like yes, it would still suck for the people from El Salvador.
But at least people from other countries would go back to their home country. Presumably to be treated far better than El Salvador.
Do you remember how prisoners were kept in Guantanamo Bay, even after they were no longer suspected of any wrongdoing, simply because there wasn't a country that would both accept them and treat them in accordance with US law? Many of those prisoners ended up nowhere near where they came from.
Some countries refuse to accept deportees. Some countries are so likely to mistreat deportees that sending them to those countries is illegal. Some countries simply don't exist anymore.
The fucking thought that Americans feel superior enough to not allow another country to take them...in this case from their extra judicial torture black site.
The Uyghurs in Guantanamo didn't want to go back to China.
I bet the general answer from congress would be "Why? It's not our country's problem where they end up once out of here"
Because both Houses of Congress are controlled by Republicans who are 100% in support of everything the regime is doing.
I mean, ignoring the law is this administration’s whole thing, so it wouldn’t matter. Also, as we’ve seen in the UK as well as the US, many targetted individuals have never even been to “their own country”.
Because our laws only protect the wealthy, enforce racism, sexism and are getting worse and more genocidal in real time
Because Congress doesn't care about the well-being of those people. Why else would this nuance be inserted into the law?
Because congress is complicit
Congress recently passed a law that allows people to be deported without due process. They're not trying to stop him...they're actively helping him.
Because then they wouldn't be able to deport actual US citizens who aren't the right color. I mean, if they actually respected the rule of law and weren't already breaking dozens of them.
Laws don't matter. The government is breaking laws left, right and centre.
Republicans don't care.
To the current constitution-violating republican administration, none of this matters and the cruelty is part of it. That said, let's play a game:
There are probably more weird edge cases that would need to be in any law as well.
Also, if someone claims asylum, international law explicitly forbids sending them back to their country (not that international law has any bearing whatsoever on this but y'know, add a layer on top)
I don't know what the US congress is any more, but in other countries it's because they really really want to expel someone and the deportee's home country might say "no thanks, they're your problem".
In case of the US they'll ask “Oh? You reject him? You and what army?”
You can't really deny the US much, y'know.
Unfortunately for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, he is from El Salvador and in 2019, an immigration judge granted him withholding of removal status due to the danger he faced from gang violence if he returned to El Salvador.
Right. That is why the Administration position on this has some merit which the courts need to defer to. As an El Salvadoran who is back in his home country, the US cannot compel his release. All the US can do is ask nicely.
But, they haven't even done that. Which is why the courts are so pissed. They know all this, and they know that all the administration has to do is prove they asked, in good faith. They won't even go that far. They did that performative thing where the El Salvadoran President said "We won't send him back since he's a criminal", but the courts in the US don't consider him a criminal.
There is no better definition of "contempt of court" then what the US is doing right now.
I know you're not defending the administration, but I wouldn't consider the administration's position to have any merit. They sent him to the prison and are paying for him to be imprisoned there. Giving them an inch of credibility on technicalities just means they'll continue to do what they're doing.
Because people facing deportation aren't billionaire campaign donors, so the law doesn't work for them
There's a lot wrong with sending everyone to El Salvador or Gitmo. But quite a few people who seek asylum are trying to escape a deadly situation in their own country. (Yes if they're trying for asylum they're not supposed to be deported without due process but that's not stopping the Reich.)
Mainly because the law is working as intended. Also because you would have to define what "their own country" is. Think of DACA recipients, who in many cases don't even speak the language of the place where they were born, have no cultural or family connections back there, is that "their own country" if the are more USian than anything? What tablet the opposite? naturalized Citizens who very much retain the cultural and heritage connections, at times even creating separate cultural enclaves.
It is almost as if "your own country" is a made up racist concept that gets wielded by power structures to keep people at each other's throats.
Because the cruelty of it is the entire point. People still like to imagine those in power have some sort of misguided moral compass or reasoning. They do not. They are pure, unadulterated evil.
Back in the day, they told Lord Byron that there was a rule against people having dogs at his college.
There wasn't a rule against having a bear, so he got one of those.
Congress hasn't passed much of anything lately. They just let Trump do his executive orders. But even if they felt like doing anything at all, the GOP has control and can count on a few Dems to follow along.
It's not deportation is exportation.
They should charge a tariff.
I agree. People are commodities and should be treated as such.