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Inside Trump's $6mn deportee deal with El Salvador mega-prison | Context

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El Salvador has become a key partner of the Trump administration in its deportation juggernaut.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has praised Bukele as "not only the strongest security leader in our region, he's also a great friend of the U.S."

Rubio hailed the $6 million deal for El Salvador to house migrants, saying it will hold accused gang members in "very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars."

 

He was deported in error. Why won’t the government provide any information about him?

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While the Trump administration might now be targeting unsympathetic figures — people it accuses of ties to gangs — that might give way to broader assaults on individual rights.

“They made it quite clear that they’re not just targeting people who present some kind of risk of bodily harm to those of us who live in the United States,” García Hernández said. “They’re also targeting people who they think present an ideological risk. And there’s no clear endpoint to that logic.”

 

Trump Clumsily Explains He’ll Leave Illegally Deported Man Rotting in Prison - WhoWhatWhy

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"There is plenty of evidence that a number of the deportees are not affiliated with gangs and found themselves on these flights simply because of their tattoos or other flimsy evidence. Only a minority of them appear to have criminal records.

Of course, we don’t know for sure because the Trump administration is not providing any information about them that would explain what makes them so dangerous.

The case of one of these prisoners is especially noteworthy.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a resident of Maryland, was on one of these flights even though he enjoyed a special protected status that made his deportation to El Salvador, a country from which he said he fled a decade ago to escape gang violence, illegal.

The Trump administration has admitted as much.

As a result, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a ruling this week that ordered the United States to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return."

 

Trump Clumsily Explains He’ll Leave Illegally Deported Man Rotting in Prison - WhoWhatWhy

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"Let’s translate all of that into plain English: “We paid President Bukele a lot of money to house a couple hundred people who may or may not be gang members, and I don’t feel like asking him to return just one of them even though the Supreme Court said I should.”

It simply defies belief that Trump could not pick up the phone and have Abrego Garcia returned today.

Of course he could."

 

Trump has doctored federal government Social Security documents of 6,100 people and changed their status from alive to deceased.

It makes his doctoring of the NOAA hurricane trajectory chart seem small

Trump's doctoring of the hurricane chart during his first term showed the degree to which he was willing to break the law. His second term is a magnified version.

 

Some FDA workers wall out during 40-minute ramble by RFK Jr.


RFK Jr. says Deep State ‘is real,’ called FDA employees ‘sock puppet’ of industry
Adam Cancryn, Lauren Gardner and David Lim
Fri, April 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM UTC

RFK Jr. says Deep State ‘is real,’ called FDA employees ‘sock puppet’ of industry

 

Wisconsin teen allegedly killed parents in extremist plot to assassinate Trump, FBI says
Nikita Casap, 17, is accused of killing his mother and stepfather.
By Nadine El-Bawab and Victoria Arancio
April 12, 2025, 4:03 PM

Wisconsin teen allegedly killed parents in extremist plot to assassinate Trump, FBI says

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/

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"By March, DOGE’s focus on immigration issues was clear, according to two people with knowledge of the team’s activities. DOGE representatives were asking a lot of questions about which kinds of address, wage and tax data they could access, and how that information could be used to determine citizenship status, the people said.

One official chose to resign rather than remain involved in what he saw as an illegal attempt to repurpose the agency for immigration enforcement."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/

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"Anybody granted the appropriate permissions within Social Security could mark someone as dead, employees had realized, without having to prove their demise in any way — for example by referencing medical records or a death certificate. In emails and meetings that rose up the management chain, employees warned that the dataset was vulnerable to manipulation, according to the person and the records.

Employees’ fear was partly that a bad actor who gained access to government credentials could label groups of living individuals as dead to target them for punishment, according to the person and the records. Some of those raising the alarm worried specifically that the Trump administration might try to use the database to go after people the president dislikes, the person said."

 

Trump concedes to China after saying he wouldn't.


No retreat on tariffs, Trump promised. Hours later, he blinked

 

Musk was on stage in Wisconsin with a cheesehead hat.

The audience cheered him even though he's wrecking their jobs and markets.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/30/musk-defends-million-dollar-giveaways-wisconsin-00260042

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A few hecklers yelled out similar complaints while Musk was on stage, only to be drowned out by the crowd, which yelled, “USA, USA, USA.”


The event kicked off with remarks by Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, a former Wisconsin representative, both of whom praised Musk for his work on DOGE.


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Sen. Ron Johnson was part of Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

 

No retreat on tariffs, Trump promised. Hours later, he blinked

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"The past two weeks have witnessed the most volatile period for financial markets since the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns five years ago. This time, however, the cause is not a highly contagious virus but the grievances and whims of one man."

 

As stated earlier, Trump is a dangerous, highly contagious virus.

 

Trump tariff chart: Full list of countries hit with 'reciprocal' tariffs

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President Donald Trump while announcing the new tariffs on Wednesday: "Chronic trade deficits are a national emergency."

 

No, they're not.

Trump is a national emergency.

 

Live updates: El Salvador’s president says he won’t release wrongly deported man back to US

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"President Donald Trump’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.

Trump administration officials emphasized that Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a notorious gang prison in El Salvador, was a citizen of that country and that the U.S. has no say in his future. And Bukele, who has been a vital partner for the Trump administration in its deportation efforts, said he does not “have the power to return him to the United States.”

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration must “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return."

 

Harvard rejects Trump's demands for policy change.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-rejects-policy-changes/index.html

 

Trump says he's considering auto exemptions for his auto tariffs.

 

Trump Officials Are Gaming Out How to Ship Citizens to El Salvador

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“You can’t deport U.S. citizens. There’s no emergency exception, there’s no special wartime authority, there’s no secret clause. You just can’t deport citizens,” says Steve Vladeck, a legal commentator and law professor at Georgetown. “Whatever grounds they try to come up with for denaturalization or expatriation, the one thing that is absolutely undeniable is that people are entitled to individualized processes, before that process can be effectuated.”