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It is a terrible scenario... should never have happened. Pretty much energy action this administration had taken has been plagued with errors.... and not error like someone transcribed something wrong, or missed a small detail - these are issues that are too big to call "errors", they are illegal and/or overreach actions that will have devastating real world implications on the individual and societal level Habeas Corpus is a bedrock concept of government limits, and had been around since the Magna Carta. It is terrifying that this administration is throwing that out.... with so much else

"[No person shall be] deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" The Constitution means something. All of it. And in the spirit of full disclosure... I rarely bring up the fact that my own mother was an illegal alien who lived in the US for nearly 40 years before applying for Resident Alien status. She arrived from Canada in 1960 and was in a common law marriage to my (US born citizen) father and mother to two US born US citizen children (including me). She worked under a fake SS# and didn’t come forward when the “amnesty” was passed during the Reagan administration. She was a taxpayer and otherwise a productive “non-criminal” resident who was granted a green card in 1999. (OK, I know she actively volunteered on Reagan's campaign, and may have actually voted for him. So technically "if" she voted in an election, that could have been a criminal offense). So yeah. If her status had been questioned at any point.... I hope that she’d have been entitled to due process FFS.

aware of this guy's case from the get go, as it has developed(devolved) i am more sickened. he was afforded no due-process, was given protected(legal) status, with zero proof to date of gang affiliation, and you have these two peckerwoods shrugging their shoulders. SCOTUS has said get him back to get due process and same....reporter asked trump in that same setting about SCOTUS order and he replies thats why CNN has such low ratings. at that point office or job be damned, id of been, verbally, up one side of him and down the other until they carried my ass out.

I have a very real problem with this Kilmar Abrego Garcia fiasco. Let's go bit by bit, and if I miss something someone will fill it in I'm sure: Garcia illegally enters the country at 16 in 2011, fleeing after his family was threatened by the Barrio 18 gang (Source) In 2019, Garcia and three men are arrested at a Home Depot looking for day jobs. One of them called Garcia a "gang member", but he, his wife, and his family deny this, the man offered no proof, and the arresting officers didn't even believe it. He was charged with no crime (Source). ICE claimed that he was a member of the MS-13 gang, due to the fact that "he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie; and that a confidential informant advised that he was an active member of MS-13 with the Westerns clique" (Same source as 1). This secret informant is the only "proof" of any gang ties. An immigration judge granted Garcia a "withholding of removal, finding that he was more likely than not to be harmed if he was returned to El Salvador" (Source). After all this, he lived and worked legally in Maryland, with no criminal record (Source). Now in March, he was picked up by ICE, told his immigration "status has changed", and he's sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. Nobody has had any contact with him, and again, he was never convicted or charged with a crime in the United States. So, we later have the White House say this was an "administrative error", and after a flurry through the various courts, the Supreme Court puts out a statement that "...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" (Source). What do we get today, following Trump's meeting with the El Salvadorian president? Source Not to mention the hot mic moment also from today, where Trump tells Bukele "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough." (How about one more source?), that's a lovely little quip we'll be told to pretend he didn't say later on. He was here initially illegally, that is true. I'm not saying everyone should just be able to walk over here freely. But to me, this is just bullshit. The "administrative error" should never have happened, but since it did it should have been properly rectified. Since that didn't happen, the courts and the freaking Supreme Court ordering his return should have been enough to bring him back. But nope, we're going to pretend that the government with the ability to send people off to prisons in other countries doesn't have the ability to bring him back. We're going to label him as a gang member and a terrorist despite no (in my research) concrete evidence besides the word of one unknown person. Is that all it takes now? Going against the Supreme Court is what happens now? I may be just some little dumb college student taking a basic US Government class but that is not how things are supposed to happen. I hope he's not, but he very well could be dead in that prison. That would explain the refusal on both governments to do something about this. If he's not, you know Trump doesn't want him coming back and telling the world what happened every step of the way. A child's father, ripped away and being left for dead in another country is horrible and disgusting. Every day I find myself more and more disgusted with this administration. Trump is the sick one here. Edit: As I typed this mini essay, 3 Supreme Court justices published this opinion piece surrounding the scenario.

A smaller, community celebration is still a celebration without millions or billions in Federal funding. Street parties, community picnics, fireworks with local sponsors. If bigger is wanted, let corporate sponsors step up to the plate. Yes, it’s a milestone but America, like millions of families, must work within its budget. You shouldn’t go into debt to celebrate something, work with what you can afford. Been there, learned that.

This administration, and really the GOP, has shown time and again that the Constitution only matters when it works in their favor. Thing is, he pretty much told the nation what he intended to do and they voted for him anyway. Now, barring a massive stroke or something, we have four years of this flagrant disregard and chaos.