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by Volundr 452 days ago
Honestly I'm getting pretty worried. We just had the current administration sell a bunch of young men into slavery in a El Salvador (they will be doing forced hard labor) then openly state in a court filings that they had no evidence of these men committing crimes, and still MAGA seems fine with this.

I don't know that there's anything Trump can do at this point that will lose him support.
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el-salvador 451 days ago
> We just had the current administration sell a bunch of young men into slavery in a El Salvador.

El Salvador has different prison systems for gang members and for other convicts. The prison they were sent to has a higher security level and is more strict, so they don't participate in the work program.

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impendingchange 451 days ago
How did MAGA become so rabid during the last administration???
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tim333 451 days ago
I'm not American but try to be a neutral observer. Obviously the polarized media didn't help but there were a couple or reasonable issues. One the border - apparently there were more illegals turning up than US citizens being born and the Biden admin seemed determined to let it go on to the extent that you did have gangs of South American criminals taking over. That bunch sent to El Salvador probably were 95% illegal immigrant criminal gang members and it's not that outrageous to kick them out, although more due process would be a good thing.

Also the whole trans thing - to the majority of people guys thinking they are girls is a bit weird and doing surgery on kids on that basis probably a bad idea. But the dems not only promoted that but the idea you should be cancelled or lose your job if you spoke what you thought. I mean I would have been tempted to vote them out although I'm not right wing.

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Volundr 451 days ago
> probably were

Do you not see the problem with this? We aren't talking revoking a Visa, we're talking a lifetime of slavery.

> illegal immigrant

Many explicitly were in the country legally. The administration is not claiming they were in the country illegally.

> criminal gang members

Who the administration says in court they have no evidence of commiting any crimes.

> kick them out

They were not "kicked out". They were sent to slave labor in El Salvador.

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