US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back

it's not an "accident" if you randomly round up people based on nothing, then exile them to a foreign slave prison, it was a deliberate series of steps to terrify these people and everyone else.

Yup. The whole setup is built around taking away legal recourse from people so they can be mistreated. It's Guantanamo squared. Also derived from the UK's failed Rwanda scheme (failed because they couldn't bypass the courts enough!), Windrush errors, and the Australian government's use of immigration detention on Nauru.

Sooner or later it's going to happen to someone who's a full US national.

(mind you this is going to get flagged off by Trump supporters and politics avoiders)

I don't think avoiding politics is much of an option.

This is more like driving at very high speeds, closing your eyes and then being surprised you caused an accident. They are ignoring all the usual checks safety mechanisms and the legal rights of the people they are sending to a prison in El Salvador that would usually apply.

That's... why there should be a due process with thorough checks before something like this happens - it might as well happen with tough checks, but up until now we've seen scenes of people being detained by masked officers not willing to identify or to explain the situation

People have been advocating avoiding the word accident in traffic crashes exactly for this reason:

https://www.roadpeace.org/working-for-change/crash-not-accid...

> It’s a crash, not an accident. End the language of denial.

> I can’t help but get upset when people call a crash an accident. I lost my leg in a crash with a lorry. It was preventable – and even though the driver didn’t intend for the crash to happen, it was still his fault

Oh my dear lord.

Due process exists for precisely this reason, and Trump and his band of sycophants intentionally bypassed due process as a "show of strength". An example. A wilful accident.

There were already processes in place so that exactly this kind of accident does not occur.

Good people who make mistakes then try to correct them. That is not happening here.

> mind you this is going to get flagged off by

If you get flagged, it might just be because you're violating the HN guidelines with the part of your comment I replied to.