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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---TGIF! [1]
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Date: 2025-04-18
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When they show us who they are - BELIEVE THEM!
As I envisioned - based on the vague SCOTUS ruling that failed to define what a “reasonable” amount of notice is - it appears Trump is giving 24 or 48 hours notice before deporting people under the AEA before disappearing them. He will argue it’s sufficient notice, & will refuse to return them. [image or embed]
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Talk about unconscionable.
This "WHO'S NEVER COMING BACK" document published by the White House should be "EXHIBIT A" in any forthcoming hearing where a judge/justice has asked the White House to prove how it is "facilitating" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. [image or embed]
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What's the Real Quid Pro Quo with Bukele? asharangappa.substack.com/…
I suspect that as a CAFE reader, you have been following the twists and turns of the legal wrangling between the courts and the Trump administration with regard to the mistaken removal and imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father and El Salvadoran national whom the government acknowledges was sent to El Salvador as a result of an “administrative error.” Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding a lower court’s order that the administration “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), where he is currently being held (as far as we are aware), the government has continued its kabuki dance of making filings that are pretty much nonresponsive to the court’s demand for more information about what the government is actually trying to do to comply with the court’s order. Lost in all this, though, is a more fundamental question: What kind of “arrangement” could the United States possibly have with a corrupt, third-world dictator who has been credibly accused of engaging in rampant human rights violations in his own country? Well, there are some clues that might explain why the Trump administration doesn’t want anyone to know.
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So, why all the secrecy? I mean, President Bukele released a propaganda video of the detainees arriving in his country, which was followed by a propaganda video by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem inside the prison itself. Clearly, they want people to know what is happening. But…the devil, as always, is in the details, so it’s something about the terms that they want to keep hidden. And, we know that Trump isn’t going to do anything without getting something in return. Neither is Bukele, who’s known as the Trump of El Salvador. So what is the quid pro quo here?
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In short, both Trump and Bukele appear to be complicit in a plan to allow MS-13 to operate in El Salvador on its own terms, in exchange for making it look like both are “cracking down” on the gang in their respective countries. Of course, the fact that MS-13 will continue to operate in cahoots with the El Salvadoran government means that citizens of that country who are victims of the gang will continue fleeing to the United States, undercutting the Trump administration’s claim that it is trying to end the “invasion” of asylum seekers. Then again, Trump needs a steady influx of people to continue trying to cross the border in order to keep claiming the “national emergency” he is using to expand his authority. So it’s a win-win propaganda operation.
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