The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Monday morning, asking the justices to block an order by a federal judge in Maryland that instructed the federal government to return a Maryland man erroneously deported to El Salvador, where he is being held in a maximum-security mega-prison, to the United States by Monday evening.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    35·
    6 days ago

    If ICE can snatch anyone off the streets and illegally deport them, against court orders, then there’s no reason to imagine that they wouldn’t do the same thing to anyone else of the wrong skin tone, including legal citizens. Trump is already fantasizing about sending American citizens to the same prison.

    “Well, I love that,” Trump said. “If we could take some of our 20-time wise guys that push people into subways and that hit people over the back of the head and that purposely run people over in cars — if he would take them, I would be honored to give them.”

    “I don’t know what the law says on that, but I can’t imagine the law would say anything different,” he said. “If they can house these horrible criminals for a lot less money than it costs us, I’m all for it, but I would only do according to the law.”

    “I think if we could get El Salvador or somebody to take them I’d be very happy with it. But I have to see what the law says,” Trump added.

    It WILL happen if he is not stopped.

    • coyootje@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 days ago

      Why stop there? You could also send political nuisances there. If he’d deport AOC and send her to a camp like that then Chuck Shumer would say 3 stern sentences about it and then continue with his meek day.

    • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
      10·
      6 days ago

      I think it is hilarious that he bothers saying “I’ll have to see what the law says” and “I would only do according to the law”

      What has he ever done that has been in any accordance with the law up to this point?