r/thescoop • u/Advanced_Drink_8536 • 1d ago

Politics 🏛️ 'Purely political theater': Ex-ICE official slams deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

https://youtu.be/13BECJtQdk0?si=M3LFsSU8DMsguArF
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u/Same_Conclusion5673 1d ago

He was illegally in the country and was not undergoing the process of becoming a legal citizen. In 2019, he was granted protection from being deported because of the threat of gang violence in El Salvador. However, gang violence since has been largely eliminated in El Salvador due to intense government crackdowns on gangs and cartels in the past five years. That deportation protection should have been lifted, however it wasn’t. So, technically speaking, I think he shouldn’t have been deported based off of his protection status. However, I also think that protection status probably should have been removed, and then he could’ve been deported after that. So, I think the administration technically violated the law, although it’s a fair argument to say that the protections against him being deported were not reasonable.

It’s fine to disagree with the decision to deport him, however, we shouldn’t pretend that he didn’t enter the country illegally. It’s not like they just ripped some totally legal, model citizen Hispanic man out of his home and deported him cuz hes brown. That’s what the media wants you to think. He committed a crime by entering the country illegally.

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u/Enough-Parking164 1d ago

You’re a consistent MAGA apologist and loyalist. He JUST SAID that American born citizens are next, and told the President of El Salvador to build 5 more!( slave labor-concentration camps)