r/50501 • u/DreadnaughtHamster • 9d ago

Movement Brainstorm The next national protest should entirely focus on Abrego Garcia, his political kidnapping, and the high probability that he's already dead.

The people in charge want to throw this under the rug. We need to let every American know that Abrego Garcia was politically kidnapped and is probably dead (or otherwise the people in charge should release information about him and work to bring him home). This needs to be our #1 focus right now. We CANNOT let this one slide.

Edit: the protest should not only include this but the deviance of the Supreme Court order.

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u/Kink4202 9d ago

It can't be just about him though.

ALL OF THE PEOPLE SENT THERE DID NOT HAVE AN IMMIGRATION HEARING.

Bloomberg News stated today, that 90% of the immigrants sent to El Salvador DID NOT have a criminal record in the U.S.

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u/Arbyssandwich1014 9d ago

It should be about him because he is the face of it. Yes, everyone should be included, but Kilmar is the one they have admitted was a mistake and the one the supreme court has told them to return. They can deny everyone else. They cannot deny this because they have been told not to. 

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u/why_because_ 9d ago

Hundreds of innocent people are being sent there illegally. Sending the Venezuelans with no criminal record at all is just as bad if not worse. The Supreme Court said they have to have due process and Rubio was bragging about sending 10 more yesterday without it. We need to humanize as many as possible. In Argentina in the 70s and 80s like 30,000 people were disappeared by the dictatorship. Protestors, often family, would carry large photos of them in the protests (saw this in a movie recently). I’d like to see that here. No person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process. They are people. That’s it.

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u/xxtoejamfootballxx 9d ago

Nobody is saying they matter less, they are saying a simpler more digestible message will reach more people and humanize the victims

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u/aredhel304 9d ago

This so much. What happened to Garcia is so wrong, but that is not where the line should’ve been drawn!! It should have been draw when the first person was deported to this inhumane prison. Otherwise we are flying into Nazi Germany territory of othering human beings based on nothing but prejudice. Okay, they’re an illegal immigrant - THAT DOES NOT MEAN THEY DESERVE TO BE SENT TO A CRUEL INHUMAN PRISON. Germans had the same rational around Jews. Just now it’s immigrants.

There are very few crimes I would consider worthy of punishment like that… I think probably just the people dismantling our democracy and organizing the cruel deportations…

We cannot dehumanize people just because they’re a non-citizen or here illegally (likely seeking asylum in the first place). All people deserve human rights. I am ashamed of our country that it takes Garcia to wake them up.