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Dennis Donovan

(30,416 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 10:26 AM 18 hrs ago

Josh Marshall: Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed.

Josh Marshall
‪@joshtpm.bsky.social‬
Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

April 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM


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Josh Marshall: Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed. (Original Post) Dennis Donovan 18 hrs ago OP
The point of sending people ( despite any immigration status ) to CECOT lapfog_1 18 hrs ago #1
Yes it is meant to impress the MAGA cult and terrorize everyone else. Irish_Dem 14 hrs ago #5
He genuinely wants the US - and himself - to be feared, not respected. eppur_se_muova 13 hrs ago #6
The Trump administration is playing fast and furious with the rules. The courts will try to rein him in. If he doesn't Martin68 17 hrs ago #2
Crime Iamscrewed 17 hrs ago #3
Imprisoned without any convictions or sentences, in a foreign country IrishBubbaLiberal 16 hrs ago #4
The equivalent of Nuremberg trials - for every single person involved drmeow 9 hrs ago #7

lapfog_1

(30,814 posts)
1. The point of sending people ( despite any immigration status ) to CECOT
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 11:01 AM
18 hrs ago

is to generate the "horror stories" that now permeate the news.

Far from being bad for Trump, the stories ARE THE GOAL.

Much like child separation from Trump first term.

It is meant to deter people from entering the USA in the first place.

Of course, it won't work... i mean it will work for a little while, but the conditions in the home country these people are coming from are sometime very dire... death is just around the corner there... people live hand to mouth every day. They can either join the gangs that deal in drugs and trafficking or leave for the US and menial jobs for needed cash ( jobs that will now be completely off the books ). They will choose to risk CECOT and migrate anyway.

But the stories about deporting people to CECOT without a court finding or any criminal charges... that is a Stephen Miller special. He would have really fit right in with the Nazi high command.

Irish_Dem

(68,459 posts)
5. Yes it is meant to impress the MAGA cult and terrorize everyone else.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 02:19 PM
14 hrs ago

Mostly a message to immigrants. You are your children will be kidnapped and sent
to god knows where.

eppur_se_muova

(38,921 posts)
6. He genuinely wants the US - and himself - to be feared, not respected.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 03:58 PM
13 hrs ago

By the time he's gone, it may be neither. Certainly he won't be.

Martin68

(25,509 posts)
2. The Trump administration is playing fast and furious with the rules. The courts will try to rein him in. If he doesn't
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 11:20 AM
17 hrs ago

obey court rulings, something will have to give.

IrishBubbaLiberal

(1,442 posts)
4. Imprisoned without any convictions or sentences, in a foreign country
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 12:44 PM
16 hrs ago

BlueSky comments


….The problem is the US corporate news media keeps saying these folks were ‘deported’, which sounds normal(ish) and doesn’t usually call for a lot of scrutiny,

when in fact they were imprisoned without a conviction or sentencing,
which absolutely does.

…….They were all moved illegally. Kidnapped not deported.

drmeow

(5,552 posts)
7. The equivalent of Nuremberg trials - for every single person involved
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:22 PM
9 hrs ago

with the option of the death penalty for top leadership. I've never fired a gun in my life but I'd volunteer to be on THAT firing squad!

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