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As I saw on an earlier Bulwark + Takes with Tim, that noted humanist Joe Rogan was shaken and disgusted by these deportations to El Salvador. I'm not at all a Rogan fan but from the clip I saw, he was genuinely disturbed and angry about the case of the gay makeup artist deported for no apparent legitimate reason. Time for people, including all those Rogan fans, to start making noise.

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I can’t believe this is my country and leadership behind this cruelty. I don’t feel safe anymore.

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Bob Fuchs

See the movie "Twelve Years A Slave"!!!!!!!

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Remember the response to Black Lives Matter by Republicans? Well, this is simply more of that. The GOP and their supporters are human garbage. Their only interest is to create a police state because they are authoritarian by nature and wholly unconcerned by any consideration about justice. The GOP and their voters are the enemy. It is that simple.

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Tim, this is our local story, from our crime-free sleepy area of NJ. This man is known and beloved by everyone and our hearts are breaking:

https://www.nj.com/hunterdon/2025/04/nj-man-seeking-citizenship-for-years-went-to-office-for-paperwork-gets-detained-by-ice.html

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Keep up the reporting, Tim. Love and support you.

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Thank you for expressing our righteous indignation, disgust and honestly shame that we as a country have allowed this to happen in our name and with our tax money. I called my Senators and House Rep about this earlier today.

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THanks, Tim!!!

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Is any of this classified as a crime against humanity and covered under the Geneva Convention? If the $trump administration is using the Alien Enemies Act which applies only in a time of "war" it should be covered under international law. I fail to see how any of this is legal. This is so sick and disgusting.

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#45, his cabinet members, and his ICE stormtroopers just plain don't care. The people doing this are sub-human.

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I hadn't caught this before, but as Tim pointed out, how can Garcia be a member of a Venezuelan gang when he's from El Salvador?

Now he's in El Salvador he's at the mercy of the Salvadoran gangs that he fled from originally. This is so depraved.

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UFB, this is disgraceful!!! I’m so ashamed 😭

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We are now witnessing in real time what 49.8% of the voters in 2024 ignored in favor of the price of eggs: i.e., when you voted for a guy who made it abundantly clear in his first reign that he did not respect the rule of law, what you were actually voting for (despite your delusions that you were voting for lower inflation) was letting people run the country who think acting illegally for their own political and financial gain is fine, irrespective of the level of cruelty and illegality involved. It's the reason I have zero interest in understanding Trump voters, and zero compassion for them.

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Here is a link to the court filing. I'm confused - as it rules that while the Defendants (KRISTI NOEM, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al.,) recognize the financial and emotional hardships to Abrego Garcia’s family, the public interest in not returning a member of a violent criminal gang to the United States outweighs those individual interests. They admitted there was an administrative error in deporting Garcia, yet claim he is a member of a violent criminal gang member? https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.11.0.pdf

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Good point

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This is being done n most likely sadly will continue cause no one is attempting to cross the border n the Orange Guy promised to jail all. Since there isn’t enough n some ICE have been in trouble for not making quotas they will grab anyone they can get wo due process just to please their Evil Master.

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I like how they start it out acknowledging they KNEW HE WASN'T TO BE DEPORTED by court order. Are they literally admitting they sent him despite KNOWING he wasn't supposed to be? Sounds a lot like the flights where they did it anyways, even with the third plane after the written order was issued.

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I am going to call my Maryland Senators offices. Now.

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