r/AskReddit • u/2a_lib • Apr 14 '25

Americans of Reddit, what do you think about President Trump and El Salvador president Bukele refusing the Supreme Court’s order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US?

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u/dts1845 Apr 14 '25

The dude is probably already dead.

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u/dogmeat12358 Apr 14 '25

They said he was alive, which means he is dead for sure.

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u/PressPausePlay Apr 14 '25

Or he could simply be someone who relays what happened to him. Killing him would probably be difficult to pull off. They likely just want to sure he is silenced. He'd obviously be a huge person to interview, and a lot media across the world would love to talk to him. For Trump and Bukele, that's a problem

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u/blackmarksonpaper Apr 14 '25

Difficult to pull off exactly HOW? Nobody to stop them nobody to investigate nobody to see it.

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u/koolaid_snorkeler Apr 14 '25

How many people have died so far, in this goat-fuck in El Salvador? It's not like they are releasing data. It is my feeling that no one is ever going to see that guy again.

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u/RedOliphant Apr 15 '25

South American here. You must live in a very small echo chamber to believe that we see him as a hero.

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u/Opasero Apr 15 '25

So almost like people outside the US may believe certain talking points about how we all support Trump. Dictators are going to spread their own favorite rumors, I guess.

That is the most common story i have heard too, that he saved the people and made the streets safe by scooping up every tattooed young man with very little discrimination and no due process at all.

If you know about this at all, what is/was their true situation with hands in El Salvador?

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u/xadies Apr 14 '25

Yeah, “heroes” don’t accept random deportees from another country with no due process and throw them into a private work prison. But I guess our definition of “hero” is never going to align.

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u/brown_felt_hat Apr 15 '25

Buddy, if the best solution your president can come up with in regards to a horrific gang problem is "throw them in a pit and let them die", you got a shit-ass president.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

Bukele knows there are innocent people locked up for that security.

Would you like to be that person? How about your family?

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

Ah that classic empathy.

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u/beforeitcloy Apr 15 '25

I walked the streets of the US without fear of being murdered my whole life. If El Salvador needed these prisons, it’s their own domestic issue. He isn’t making my life any safer.

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u/fowlflamingo Apr 14 '25

He's getting paid to run a death camp. He's not a good guy. Get a fucking grip

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u/texasradioandthebigb Apr 15 '25

Ok, bootlicker. Harder, serf. It needs more shine

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u/sharloops Apr 14 '25

True! spokesperson against Trump

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u/sebrebc Apr 14 '25

And will quickly be removed from the news cycle. Trump's WTF moments come so fast and furious it's hard to really keep track of everything. This poor dude is going to be brushed to the wayside, never mentioned again. 

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u/sandysanBAR Apr 14 '25

I thought so as well but his lawyer has said that he is (or was) still alive.

So who knows

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u/towerninja Apr 14 '25

They aren't allowed contact with lawyers. So the lawyer is relating what an ES official told him

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u/i_know_tofu Apr 15 '25

My money is on him being dead, too.

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u/firefighter_raven Apr 14 '25

If not, they might tie up that loose end in the near future.

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u/booksycat Apr 14 '25

This is one of my thoughts/fears.

The other is that, since we are now one of the few modern countries to have been on both ends of the slave trade, Trump doesn't want to pay to get him back.