Salvadoran president says he won’t return wrongly deported man to U.S.

Are they in prison in Venezuela? Or could they just come right back?

doesn't matter.he needs to capitulate to them to get the guy back.

it was his departments fuck up after all, as so ordered by the highest court in the land. it's his job to do whatever it takes to get the man back. we certainly have leverage; I think it's just trump doesn't want to and is using this to conviently ignore a court order. That's why he said 'hes helping us out'. shipping them to another country helps him do fascist things and shove off the blame. It's like if the Nazis held their camps in Ethiopia or some shit idk

anyone who isnt outraged over this is imo... in for a nasty surprise. this will keep ramping up, innocent people will keep getting sent to El Salvador and when not even the supreme Court can stop it

what's the point of any of this? what are we doing here? seriously I cannot believe how ignorant, short sided, and hateful my fellow Americans are becoming. this is the end of the American experiment, it's that simple. We've failed every test.

every founding founder would be rolling over in their graves, but if they could e tasted a fraction of the immense wealth and power our current oligarchs hold. I'm sure they'd do the same thing

Frankly, if there is any country right now that needs an invasion, El Salvadore seems to be at the top of the list. You running a gulag where you dump people with indefinite sentences and no due process? Yeah, I think it's time to coup your ass.

Did that ever stop the US when the government wanted to drag someone to the US?

It honestly wouldn't surprise me if they just killed us prisoners sent there since the deal they made i believe is for life

And if the gov didn't but the guy did have gang ties the gags almost certainly killed him

I wish death to all monarchs and dictators. They deserve nothing else.

Yeah sure, they'll do that.... for cia agents.

The guy in question here wasn't trying to overthrow a non US aligned government.

National security, the economy, welfare, etc are not meant for the likes of me and you. It’s meant for the rich and powerful, and all of the above is working exactly as it should… for them.

The truth is the US is essentially invincible when it comes to its actual physical security. The US dominates the North American continent. To the north and south it borders (until recently) friendly nations that have a fraction of our population and economy. Canada and Mexico could put up a good fight and insurgency if the US tried to invade and annex them, but the idea of either starting a war of aggression against the US is comical. It would be downright suicidal for either to voluntarily start a war to try and conquer territory from the US.

To the east and west, the US has two vast oceans. No Eastern Hemisphere power is ever going to be able to build a sufficient force to try to directly invade the US mainland. Not only does the US have a vast navy, the distances involved are simply insane. The only way an Eastern Hemisphere power would ever have hostile troops on US soil is if there were some civil war within the US that a foreign power involved itself in.

And to top it all off, the US maintains the most powerful nuclear arsenal on the planet. A nuclear bombardment is really the only threat to the US's physical security, and the US would make sure that this was an act of suicide on the part of its attacker.

Oh, and just for fun, the US is absolutely awash in civilian firearms. We can't even keep our children from getting a hold of them and shooting up schools. And that's just a handful of troubled kids. Imagine what it would look like if some foreign power actually tried to put troops on the ground in the US. We literally have enough guns to put a firearm in the hands of every man, woman, and child in the country. We're a nation of gun nuts with a cultural that celebrates and fetishizes militant independence and resistance.

The only real threat to the US's physical safety is internal. If the US ever falls, it will be because of our own internal instability, not because of some hostile invasion by a foreign power.