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Sentenced to Death? [1]
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Date: 2025-04-14
People who cherish democracy can agree that at least two immigrants not afforded Constitutional due process are in danger of losing their lives. Venezuelan makeup artist Andry Jose Hernandez Romero is a 31-year-old immigrant sent to a notorious El Salvadoran gulag by the Trump administration based mainly on hearsay and tattoos. “I think about him every day; I cry about him every day,” said his mother, Dolores Alexis Romero de Hernandez. It is almost a cruel joke that one of the reasons Mr. Romero left his homeland may lead to his demise—his sexual orientation. Romero sports crown tattoos on his wrist and was initially identified by the Biden administration for detention and his day in court under suspicion of being a member of the Tren de Aragua gang.
The problem with the gang tattoo theory is that experts say Tren de Aragua does not use tattoos as identifiers. It also seems far-fetched that a gay man with tattoos and the words “Mom” and “Dad” written beneath them would be a prime candidate for a testosterone-laden, murderous gang. Americans should also be banging the gavel for due process for another immigrant seeking justice, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Mr. Garcia, who resided in Maryland before his arrest, is a father and husband and, according to the Trump administration, was arrested due to a clerical error. Court(s), including the Supreme Court, have effectively ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” his return from the infamous El Salvador prison, Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT).
These cases have become a cause célèbre for the right, who accuse the left of caring more for murderous immigrants than, say, for Laken Riley. The real question should be, when has the right learned to disdain the Constitution? Did it begin in the days after the January 6 Insurrection when Senator Lindsey Graham said, Count me out” [on Trump]? But now supports him fully. Before the final collapse of Sen. Graham’s spine, he gave a speech following January 6 in which he said,
“The first thing that stands out to me is how embarrassed and disgusted I am that the United States Capitol could be taken over by domestic terrorists while we're in session, transferring power from one president to the other, that a band of people who are terrorists, not patriots, literally occupied the floor of the House, drove the Senate out of its chamber; And the question for the country is how could that happen 20 years after 9/11?”
Or was it when candidate Trump vowed to manipulate the Constitution to his own ends? Still stewing over his loss to former President Joe Biden in 2020, Mr. Trump told his flock, “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” he wrote in December of 2022. Among his series of retributive edicts that seem to come daily from his office, his cruelty dates back to the infamous Central Park Five Case (now known as the Exonerated Five). There, he called for the execution of five innocent young men. Even when his racist assumptions were proven erroneous, he still refused to admit he was wrong and continued to defame the now adults as late as September of 2024. So, if anyone still believes that somewhere in the chest of Mr. Trump still beats a heart capable of compassion for Messrs. Romero, Garcia, or anyone in his warped way of thinking, think again.
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