Just unpack the contradictions and illogic of the whole story.
The immigration judge accepts the identification of him as an MS13 member and gives it as basis to deny him asylum claim and he would be subject to deportation, except he forbids his deportation to his home country on the basis that he'd face rival gang violence, and won't order a deportation to a third country. Creating the legal limbo of having someone identified as both an illegal alien and a gang member who is allowed to stay in the country. And just like he illegally entered the country (intentionally), he was illegally deported from the country (by mistake). A court orders the president to effectuate his return even though this is a clear violation of constitutional separation of powers, as the judiciary has no jurisdiction over international affairs and foreign policy. The supreme court affirms this distinction, but the liberal media freaks out and claims its a constitutional crisis that Trump is ignoring a supreme court order. Except that Trump is actually abiding by the supreme court order and the lower immigration judge was doing the whole constitutional crisis thing.
And here we get to the more meaty stuff. The gang violence excuse was given in 2019. Which is also when Bukele was elected, and began his territorial control plan. The homicide rate in El Salvador dropped from 83/53/38 in 2017/18/19, down to 21.2/18.1/7.8/2.4/1.9 in 2020,21,22,23,24. With only 114 total homicides in the whole country last year. And indeed this is now 1/3 of the homicide rate in the USA. El Salvador is now a much safer country than the US instead of a total violent shithole, and the official USA travel advisory now bumps it to a higher tier than France and Sweden.
This also means that the gang violence premise for barring the guy's deportation is defunct. Of course, the court itself hasn't ruled on that, because it would much rather leave him in permanent limbo than do its job. But it creates the opposite, ridiculous argument where the claim for asylum becomes fear of persecution from his government, because he'd be locked up as an MS13 member, like exactly what happened. Which is exactly how El Salvador became safe and why they won't release him. And to deny it on that grounds would be to again hijack our foreign policy by condemning and rejecting the sovereign El Salvadoran justice system and saying we do not accept their determinations, which of course is not the jurisdiction of courts. And yet a judge tried to do just that, ordering him released.
I mean most of this is either completely wrong or willfully misleading, so I will gladly reiterate the facts (citations freely available at wiki):
- guy was 16 when he illegaly came to the US
- a single informant claimed he was in a gang at a place where he didn't even live, which one judge believed and another one accepted as not "clearly wrong"
- there is no other evidence linking him to gangs, no crimes charged
- he got his status to not be deported to El Salvador because it was too late for him to apply for asylum
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he could not be legally deported to El Salvador and still wasWhich brings us to what happens now. He is not comming back, probably because he is long dead. He was not allowed to be deported, due process was not followed -
everybody can be deported if you stop following due process. You are an US citizen? Well, would be nice if that status protected you from being deported, which it does if and only if due process is followed. You should be outraged about such a "blunder" and march for your government to make sure it never happens again.
As a side not: it is immaterial for the case if in the end the guy was a violent gang member, a loving father to three special needs children or both or neither of those things. Everybody should see the law as the highest good in the US, if you don't you could leave to a country that has "whatever our leader wants" as the highest good instead - I heard Russia is nice.
PS: Trump is already "joking" about sending US citizens to El Salvador.