Notices by ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊 (dalfen@mstdn.social)

Apparently, the ‘deal’ between the #Trump admin and President Bukele of El Salvador is to take into its CECOT mega prison people that the Trump admin says are violent, dangerous gang members (see reference in next post).

Well, Abrego Garcia was sent to that prison but released (supposedly to another El Salvador prison), per his report when speaking with Sen. Van Hollen (see the article below).

This got me thinking about money 💰…

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#USA #ElSalvador #deportation

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/04/18/maryland-senator-returns-el-salvador-abrego-garcia/

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#MyThoughts 🧐

1) Did the US pay El Salvador to take Garcia as part of the deal with #Trump to house violent gang members at CECOT?

2) Was the fee $20,000 as the screenshots below show?

3 Are there official records of this deal, or was it a verbal (wink-wink) thing?

4) Do we know *exactly* how much the #USA has already sent to El Salvador and how much it plans to send?

5) What would be the exact intended purpose of money sent?

#deportation #US #AbregoGarcia

https://denverguardian.com/bukele-makes-prison-pay/

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None of #MyThoughts negate the fact that Abrego Garcia was ripped away from his family and wrongfully deported w/o due process. But questions remain.

Housing prisoners is expensive, and the president of #ElSalvador said that American money would keep his prison system sustainable.

But what if he could have his cake and eat it too, so to speak, and NOT imprison all the deportees to save💰and make more profit? It’s not like #trump would likely look for the deportees he readily dismissed.

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WHERE exactly IS #AbregoGarcia now?

It would be great if he wasn’t in a prison. However, he could be in danger from gangs considering a US judge granted him protection from deportation to El Salvador because of that credible threat.

Of 2 things I am certain:

1) Mr. Garcia doesn’t appear to be a dangerous gang member in these photos taken during Sen. Van Hollen’s visit.

2) El Salvador didn’t attempt to make him appear as an imprisoned, violent gang member/criminal for this photo shoot.

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Also, it’s clear from reading the first article in this 🧵 that Mr. Garcia is by no means free in El Salvador. It is clear that he is under that government’s watchful eye. The president of El Salvador (Bukele) even posted a reference to that effect on X after Sen. Van Hollen’s visit.

But #AbregoGarcia was casually removed from CECOT— the maximum-security mega prison where the #Trump admin adamantly claimed he should be sent because he was such an awful, dangerous, criminal gang member.

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So, to summarize:

1) Abrego Garcia was apparently so dangerous that he was sent to a maximum-security prison for terrorists in El Salvador— yet quickly released from that prison (which is notorious for NOT releasing people) to an unknown Salvadorian location.

2) Mr. Garcia was also so apparently dangerous that he could meet casually with a US senator in a hotel lobby, not restrained and dressed in plain clothes. He even shook the senator’s hand.

(cont.)

#USA #ElSalvador #deportation

The #Trump admin lost its appeal of the district court’s finding that the admin must comply w/ orders related to returning the man they illegally deported to the El Salvador prison ( #AbregoGarcia ), or likely be held in contempt.

“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of #DueProcess that is the foundation of our constitutional order...” — said the Reagan-appointed judge

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#USA #law

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-ramps-up-campaign-against-man-it-deported-in-error-819e5c9f

ICE tried to enter LA elementary schools—

Seeking five children from the 1st through 6th grades 😳

They were turned away by school administrators.

#USA #trump #deportation #ICE

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/los-angeles-schools-immigration-officials

Related:

~ Trump Plans to Withhold All Federal Funding From Sanctuary Cities ~

#USA #USGov #trump #immigration #SanctuaryCities

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~ Tariff-related layoffs hit five US auto plants that supply factories in Canada and Mexico ~

#trump #tariffs #USA #LiberationDay

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/03/business/tariff-related-layoffs-hit-five-us-auto-plants

Why hello there!

#Caturday #cats #CatsOfMastodon

One hand doesn’t know what the other is doing.

This admin is so vulnerable.

#USA #USGov

Holy crap —
Look what JD Vance said in that supposedly classified (?) convo on Signal. Check out the emoji responses.

So when someone takes screenshots in a Signal group chat, an alert doesn’t appear on the screen?

(clips below from CNN-I)

#USA #USGov #Yemen #houthis #signal #vance

@jstatepost Oh absolutely 110%. Horrible.

@jstatepost Also, where was Trump in all this? Did Pete and JD make the decision to bomb and then tell Trump about it?

Okay, this is just creepy—

“Copilot (AI) will see what you see and give you real-time, personalized responses.”

This just appeared after my browser updated and I’m not sure yet if the Copilot-watching-you “experience” happens only when one presses the microphone button, but I don’t want it in my browser at all.

#tech #AI #Microsoft #privacy

“Around 2 a.m., the convoy of 22 buses, flanked by armored vehicles and police, moved out of the airport. Soldiers and police lined the 25-mile route to the prison, with thick patrols at every bridge and intersection… for a Venezuelan plucked from America, it must have appeared dystopian—police and soldiers for miles and miles in woodland darkness.”

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~ What the #Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced~

#USA #USGov #trump #immigration #deportations

https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

“The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster.”

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~ What the #Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced~

#USA #USGov #trump #immigration #deportations

https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

“The men were pulled from the buses so fast the guards couldn’t keep pace. Chained at their ankles and wrists, they stumbled and fell, some guards falling to the ground with them. With each fall came a kick, a slap, a shove. The guards grabbed necks and pushed bodies into the sides of the buses as they forced the detainees forward.“

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~ What the #Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced~

#USA #USGov #trump #immigration #deportations

https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

“Inside the intake room, a sea of trustees descended on the men with electric shavers, stripping heads of hair with haste. The guy who claimed to be a barber began to whimper, folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell. He was slapped. The man asked for his mother, then buried his face in his chained hands and cried as he was slapped again.”

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~ What the #Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced~

#USA #USGov #trump #immigration #deportations

https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/