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

> Better a guilty person go free than an innocent person sent to their long, slow, undignified death.

This is a scale thing though right? You'll have some false convictions if you want a justice system. Nothing is perfect, breakage inevitable.

Nobody wants to be the victim of a miscarriage of justice themselves, but everyone wants crime to be dealt with effectively. The trade offs are real and I suspect the average person has an acceptable non-zero rate in the back of their mind

Yes, as you said, the price of any justice system is a percentage of results that are wrong. I think the checks and balances that have been developed over the last century or two have gotten to a satisfactory level.

Such that wilfully bypassing parts of it to support a political agenda is nothing less than dictatorial.

They said there were how many tens of thousands of these gang members? And these are the first, highest priority ones they choose to ship out? If their highest priority test cases are this crappy/low priority/not actual criminals, imagine when they get past the first ten thousand.

"You'll have some false convictions if you want a justice system. Nothing is perfect, breakage inevitable."

Perhaps this is an assumption you are making which is not true.