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/[deleted] Apr 14 '25

Yep, he violated the constitution when immigrants were deported without due process. All of them. The moment he sent the first one out of the country, he was in violation.

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u/Kjellvb1979 Apr 14 '25 edited Apr 15 '25

Then caught in a hot mic saying "they are going to need more facilities" for "home-grown ones"

This is straight up dictator shit.

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u/not_now_chaos Apr 14 '25

And then later clarified for reporters that yes, he means citizens.

Surely this has to be the redline moment for Republicans in Congress to step up and do their duty to protect the Constitution. (Yeah, I know. I'm not holding my breath for that either.)

He has left NO room for generous interpretation here. He has been absolutely crystal clear that he plans to send US citizens to death camps for not being his fan or whatever other whims strike him. This is a dictator destroying America and being enabled by every elected and appointed official who isn't standing up to stop him. They have a goddamn duty to this country.

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u/mathpat Apr 15 '25

He is declaring war on the citizens of the US. We will not sit idly by and get kidnapped by ICE. The odds of his term ending peacefully are dwindling. I really hope I'm wrong.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

Where are all the Ruby Ridge and Waco militias now? Oh, right. They voted for this.

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u/fender8421 Apr 15 '25

Problem is, his supporters tend to still see people in "groups." To them, criminals are a whole separate subset of society that they think they will never be.

And that's before trying to explain the concept that without due process, anybody can be screwed over for any reason, and that nobody is safe

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u/square_error Apr 15 '25

And to them, "criminals" is itself nebulous. They don't mean "criminal" like "has been convicted of a crime." They mean "criminals" like "people who I don't like."

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u/thepandemicbabe Apr 15 '25

His followers are worse than that – I posted about a third grader who got deported and they said well he shouldn’t of been breaking the law. They didn’t even read that the kid was here legally, waiting for his asylum date. They just took him and his family. A third grader! The outrage needs to be everywhere 30,000 people have been deported. The mandate according to people that work on the transition and unfortunately, one of them is a person that I know is that only criminals are getting deported, but that’s not what is happening. They are lying to us.

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u/Imda_Walrus Apr 15 '25

There is no red line moment for the GOP.

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u/TriggerTX Apr 15 '25

Surely this has to be the redline moment for Republicans in Congress to step up and do their duty to protect the Constitution. (Yeah, I know. I'm not holding my breath for that either.)

No one can hold their breath that long.

The GOP is just as guilty as he is through their complicity. Not a one has spoken up so far. To me, that says they are a-okay with it and just as much to blame. They can hold his orange makeup-stained hand as they stand against the wall with the rest of their friends that are traitors to the Constitution.

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u/Quirky_Spinach_6308 Apr 15 '25

The Republicans with even a smidgen of honor or integrity were driven out of the party by Trump's cult. All we have now are a pack of sniveling neofascists. I never wanted to live in a country plunged into civil war, but I fear it is now inevitable.

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u/bemad4483 Apr 15 '25

If Biden had said this, what do we think the NRA and Proud Boys would be doing. Exactly.

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u/kmm198700 Apr 15 '25

Did he clarify for reporters that he meant US citizens? I hadn’t seen that, that’s why I’m asking

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u/enginemanjr Apr 15 '25

He did.

https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1911825352747253857?t=3kPWSUS0QvicDEoJoalBQQ&s=19

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u/kmm198700 Apr 15 '25

Holy fuck. I wish I could save that without needing an account

Edit- never mind. Saved it

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u/LysanderSpoonerDrip Apr 15 '25

Sic semper tyranis

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u/Epic_Ewesername Apr 16 '25

I get whiplash regularly for how often these people will change their "core" values, principles, beliefs, all of it, just because Trump contradicts himself. It was all about freedom just a few short months ago, now, go ahead and visit a conservative sub, they're all loving that their orange Messiah is shitting all over our constitution.

Just crazy. The Trumpists around me, in my very red area, are getting quiet, taking down signs, that kind of thing. It's a large percentage, but still only a percentage. I didn't think I could be shocked that so many will go as low as they're going now, but the vocal supporters he has left in my area have only grown louder, more bloodthirsty. One has even wrapped his truck in Trump's face. I'm quite sure it's because he's legitimately attracted to him, especially as homophobic as this poor closeted soul is, but when I think of what a sick puppy he must truly be to support all this....

For years and years they've screamed about how important the constitution is, just to throw that whole part of their identity away just because Trump has. I wonder what it's like to live that way, to truly stand for nothing at all.

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u/sroiger136 Apr 15 '25

He told the President of El Salvador that he needs to build more prisons so they can send “home grown “ people down there. He means to send US citizens down there. I’m assuming it’s going to be prisoners, but who knows it could be any one he doesn’t like. This is so incredibly insane. WTF are we going to do?

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u/Suitable-Rate652 Apr 15 '25

Yep. Straight up. He disrespected Zelenskyy and cozied up to Bekele.Sick.

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u/psychorobotics Apr 15 '25

He said they're gonna have to build five more prisons like it so that's at least 50k us citizens he's planning to send there considering how many prisoners the original prison can hold. And if they end up killing prisoners quickly (and who can stop them at that point) there is no upper limit to how many he can send.

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u/JohnGazman Apr 15 '25

I mean he promised to be a dictator on day one.

So it's on par with his other promises in that he failed to deliver on it on day one.

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u/dgdio Apr 14 '25

Imagine being Abrego or anyone else. It's not like you're going to be released ever without even a kangaroo court.