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akomtu ◴[] No.43939755[source]
They bother to spell out his full name, but don't bother explaining who he is.
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brendoelfrendo ◴[] No.43939843[source]
"Ricardo Prada Vásquez was not on a government list of people sent to a mega prison in El Salvador. But hacked data shows he was booked on a flight to the country.

Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan man whose family says he was “disappeared” and who wasn’t included on a previously leaked government list of people sent to a notorious mega prison in El Salvador, was included on a private airline’s flight manifest to the country, according to hacked airline data obtained and analyzed by 404 Media."

Those are the first two paragraphs of the story, what do you think is missing that would help your comprehension of the situation?

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akomtu ◴[] No.43943331[source]
These two paragraphs say nothing about who he is.
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1. zzrrt ◴[] No.43951667{3}[source]
Maybe the journalists have no answer because the government didn’t provide any information about him. We should invent a process by which the government presents facts and arguments to the public so that we know “who” they are deporting and why before they do it. There will be rules for what evidence can be presented and what type of arguments can be made, and an expert could preside over it, “judging” if you will, the validity of the facts and arguments and deciding what should be done. We could call it immigration court. Oh wait! it already exists, and this administration just ignores it, because nothing they would present there would justify disappearing someone to a foreign prison in a country they have never been to with no criminal conviction. That and they lack the resources to follow the rules while also making their quotas, and ~every lawyer with integrity and competence has quit or been fired.

There is perhaps some “reason” this happened to him that the news doesn’t know yet, but it can’t possibly be a good enough reason to do this. I think it’s unlikely many of these men are violent criminals, but even if they are, the law should be followed and their family and lawyers should know where they are.

MAGA say stuff like “if you want to immigrate here or seek asylum, there’s a process; don’t do it illegally.” The same is true of deportation. While I don’t think it should be a big priority, I would be a lot less angry about deportations if the law and basic human decency was being followed while doing it.

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2. zzrrt ◴[] No.43955540[source]
I’ve just seen that he did go to immigration court and was ordered deported. I still don’t think that makes it legal to chuck him in prison and not tell anyone where he is.