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    a messaging triumph for the Trump administration.

    If the message is “see, he’s accused of multiple crimes” then I hope the American people will be smart enough to recognize that the appropriate response is trial in a court of law, not kidnapping and human trafficking to overseas concentration camps. And if you think this guy has no right to a trial because he seems the guilty sort, someone could say the same about you tomorrow and you’d get no trial to dispute their accusations.

    It’s disappointing to see the media characterizing this as a victory for Trump’s people. Whether he’s guilty or not their actions were indefensible.

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      School shooters and mass casualty bombers get trials. Young immigrant going 5mph over the speed limit? Straight to the camps.

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      Also, it should be really obvious that this is all manufactured bullshit after the fact. Like, if nothing else they have to explain when they discovered this stuff that they’re claiming and why they never brought it up during one of his immigration hearings before they abducted him away to El Salvador, but way too many media organizations just take what the government says at face value no matter who the president is.

      e; fucks sake, this is excruciatingly bad media

      the allegations against Abrego Garcia are damning.

      Huh, normally proof of something gets called “damning,” but here unproven allegations can do the same for some reason. Neat!

      A federal grand jury found that the 29-year-old was an MS-13 member

      The prosecutor just kept repeating that this was true until the jury accepted it

      who transported thousands of undocumented immigrants, including children, from Texas to states across the country for profit for nine years.

      So how wasn’t he apprehended at the border if he was doing this? Oh, he was just giving rides to people who were already in the United States?

      Well, where’s the charge for kidnapping? Sex trafficking? Was anyone transported against their will?

      Or are we just talking about a guy who got paid under the table working for an unlicensed taxi service who didn’t ask his passengers too many questions? Because that barely feels like a crime at all, but just reading this article on a surface level you’d think Garcia was like Boris in season 2 of the Wire or something

      He allegedly also transported firearms and drugs,

      Where’s the charge for drug possession? Firearms trafficking? There isn’t one because this is just a prosecutor saying “y’know, if he gave rides to that many Mexicans there had to be some drugs and guns in there somewhere” without any evidence, isn’t it?

      abused female migrants

      Where charge etc.

      and was linked to an incident

      What does this even mean

      in Mexico where a tractor-trailer overturned and killed 50 migrants.

      “He knew someone who was in a car crash, will this reign of terror never cease.”