• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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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.”

    e; further reading on this says a) they have basically no direct evidence of anything, just two co-conspirator witnesses they’re getting testimony out of in exchange for favorable plea deals to their own troubles, b) the prosecutor who had been in charge resigned shortly before these charges were announced

    https://lemmy.world/post/31075797

    This case stinks and it isn’t even a little hard to see