• vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Americans are absolutely calling the shots here. That’s why El Salvador has him and is keeping him: because the US government is paying them to do so.

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      3 days ago

      The US government is telling the US government to return him but the US government isn’t listening to the US government. I think the statement that the US has lost control of the reigns is apt. The US government cannot currently control the US government.

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        3 days ago

        The US government, like all governments, is comprised of individual people with varying motivations. The person asking for his return is not part of the executive branch, which is what’s paying to keep people in CECOT.

        A sitting Senator who is a member of the minority opposition party is asking for him to be returned. The US administration is paying the Salvadoran government to keep him there. The VP of El Salvador told Senator Van Hollen that if the US embassy asked for him to be released they would release him.

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          A sitting Senator who is a member of the minority opposition party is asking for him to be returned.

          You’ve buried the lede so deep. Try “the nine justices of the Supreme Court made a unanimous decision.”