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Geidner: The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration's plan.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-plan-the-horrors-are-not-aberrationsIt’s important to understand that this is the Trump administration’s plan.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Judge Hannah Dugan, two-year-old V.L.M.
They are not outliers, exceptions, or aberrations.
This is their plan.
The plan includes chaos. It includes shifting justifications. It includes secrecy.
The plan also includes propaganda. It includes threats. It includes targeting individuals to send messages to everyone else.
Abrego Garcia was an “alternate” for the third plane that eventually went to El Salvador on March 15, we were told, despite an order barring his removal. The “administrative error” that led to his being sent to the CECOT prison in El Salvador was then not reversed. Reversing an error is, as multiple judges have noted since, what the government — what anyone — should do when they notice or are informed of such an error.
As Nick Miroff reported this week at The Atlantic, that is exactly what some in the government thought would happen — and began implementing. “But as criticism of the administration over its mishandling of the case spread, White House officials took over the response and began striking a far more strident tone in their public statements,“ Miroff wrote. And, as President Donald Trump told us, he wants to send U.S. citizens there as well.
This is the White House’s plan.
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