Free Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The government's refusal to correct their "administrative error" should concern us all.
Our MOMochat podcasts are part weekly conference call, part political therapy for the three of us. The only real preparation I do before we talk is a set of notes, with news bullet points and quotes that I find particularly relevant to what we’ll be discussing that day.
Yesterday’s show notes began with the following sentence:
IMO there is no issue more important than the rendition of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
One of the few times Donald Trump has ever told the truth was when he said he would be a dictator on day one. Our flawed-yet-robust democracy is transforming into an authoritarian fascist state with stunning speed. Less than 90 days in, we have witnessed our government trampling on the Constitution while it tries to extort law firms, universities, and the media to do as Trump says.
We’ve even seen masked agents disappearing legal residents. And for us, the most shocking action was the expulsion of 250 immigrants - without due process and in defiance of a restraining order - to CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador.
The notes from yesterday’s show included this explanation from Heather Cox Richardson’s Tuesday night newsletter:
[Adam] Serwer notes that if the administration actually thought there was enough evidence to convict these men, it could have let the U.S. legal process play out. But Geidner of Law Dork noted that Trump’s declaration this morning that he wanted to deport “homegrown criminals” suggests that the plan all along has been to be able to get rid of U.S. citizens by creating a “Schroedinger’s box” where anyone can be sent but where once they are there the U.S. cannot get them back because they are “in the custody of a foreign sovereign.”
“If they can get Abrego Garcia out of the box,” Geidner writes, “the plan does not work.” …
If that doesn’t send a chill up your spine…
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One Last Thing
And from whom did the Nazis learn?
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