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Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US
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this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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Honestly, what is he gonna be able to do?
Try to do the right thing. That's something.
I hope he is successful
Imagine 3 more senators do this, would that change things in your eyes? 5? 10? Etc. Even if unsuccessful it puts the pressure on those involved, making them look incompetent whether they ignore it or bend over backwards to justify it. It's a smart way deal with unethical actors.
What if 5 republican senators just joined with the 50 dems and passed a bunch of laws to prevent this? Do you think that 10 dems going to el salvador and being told "fuck off" is going to save our country or more people from being sent to el salvador? Can't we have someone else check on the prisons, someone who isn't incharge of making laws to prevent this from happening? Really just seems like they are beating around the bush of legislating. Lets focus on 1 guy in El Salvador while 330 Million people are fucked at home.
Of course I would prefer if the majority of our political representatives acted ethically. We wouldn't be in this situation if that was the case. But the Republicans are compromised, effectively useless in this situation and too many dems are passive to a fault (though overall still doing a much better job at working towards progress). This is already against the rights of non-citizens per the Constitution. And a judge ordered them to bring him back and they defied the courts, so what laws would need to be passed to have any actual impact on this (which already occurred in the past anyway)?
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and pushing back against a tyrannical machine will require more than begging Republicans to find their morality and respect the rights of others. And if you don't think this is important for the rest of the citizens back home, you're missing the point. When one group's rights are violated, all of our rights are at risk. I don't need to be threatened directly to understand the gravity of the situation and support the efforts any representatives are taking to try to resolve this. Others will wait until it directly becomes a problem for them in their personal life, but that latency is one of the critical factors that brought us under the shadow of this new administration in the first place.
Yesterday we find out the senator met with him. Today we find out he's released from CECOT. Even Fox news was pressuring the AG to admit that they had no proof of any criminal record. This is why I applaud the senator for directly intervening in this mess.
I just need you to think about this. The republican establishment got a bunch of illiterate morons who don't care about their kids.... to invade and take over schoolboards across the country. In a grass root movement. They completely upended educational systems across the country. Fueled by fake news and just enough political guidance to pull it off. I can point to a million things the republicans did in the last 12 years as an opposition party. Dems 0. What the fuck the republicans wrote a whole play book on this shit and no ones going to use it? Why are we not flooding state elections with money and candidates? Why are we not pushing ballot issues in 50 states? Why are we not focusing on election reform in districts, court cases anything. Everything.
I am very aware. I don't think these are mutually exclusive strategies forward. So focusing on drastic reform in the Dems needs to happen alongside immediately resisting actions from the new admin. I wish it were another way, because inevitably your efforts are diluted. But time is of the essence in this situation, unfortunately.
Well here's another republican trick. They used tax payer money to ship illegal immigrants to marthas vineyard, NYC, they basically flooded cities with immigrants for LOLS. Why can't we spend some money and flood DC with voters? Just throw a big old party in DC and obstruct everything. Time is of the essence. No one has time to fly to el salvador. Every second our leadership is not leading people against fascism, is wasted. People don't know what to do, they need to be guided, they need to be supported. They don't need feel good news articles that say "IM HELPING"
Fair enough. I didn’t realize Fox News was reporting on this issue. I’d say that is meaningful. I’m going to have to hunt that down because I hardly believe it.
He's a US senator, the right thing for him to do would be to draft and pass laws to prevent this, form voting coalitions, you know the job we pay him for. Flying to el Salvador to take a picture with a prisoner after a Maryland congressman just did the same thing?
They are milking this for political points and allowing it to happen.
This is so far from the right thing to do, this is just trying to grasp at some headlines to make you think we're not already to far gone.
Nothing lol he has no power over anything in El Salvador, he can talk to the president but I'm pretty sure the President has prior comittments in this matter. This is a photo op. Like the filibuster, they're continuing to virtue signal to voters instead of leading and legislating. This does nothign to convince a handful of republicans to join them in reigning in trumps power. Pure optics. No strategy. I've seen headless chickens act more decisively.