You might say, I’m fine with sending this man to CECOT for life even though he has been convicted of no crime. That’s an opinion. Lying about how he got there and who is responsible for it is not an opinion.
Because he was illegally deported in violation of the Constitution and a judges order.
It’s easy to defend “good people” when the Constitution is at stake, it takes a true patriot to defend the Constitution when making sure justice is applied to “bad people”.
(Not saying Abrego Garcia is “good” or “bad”, just that he deserves his day in court.)
The deal we struck with El Salvador is that they would take some number of Venezuelan gang members and house them in CECOT for 1-year. We have no direct access to CECOT. We physically deport them to El Salvador, and the plane is met by ES personnel. Those ES personnel then escort the deported individuals to CECOT for processing.
No one doubted that Garcia was going to end up in CECOT. But the US didn’t put him there. He was deported to El Salvador, and they incarcerated him in CECOT.
Yes, I’ve heard the party line. (RW talking points, as you would put it.) But of course the entire paragraph is nonsense. No one ever leaves CECOT. The president of ES would put Garcia on a plane today if Trump told him to. And the reason “those ES personnel” took Garcia to CECOT is because we told them he’s a dangerous gang member, even though he has not been convicted.
No one is actually buying this. We arrested him, we sent him to ES, we told ES officials he was a dangerous gang member. All this right after we paid ES millions to imprison gang members in CECOT.