Erasures
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As of April 1, 2025, we have no record of an American citizen who has been disappeared by the Trump administration, though we can be sure it will happen in the absence of Due Process.
A public announcement of charges against the accused is a protection of state legitimacy, it reinforces societal norms through naming criminal deviance, both in the act and the actor. The audience is the society at large, and in the courtroom, a jury of peers. Disposing of citizen participation in the application of criminal law will further erode the veracity of what is named “justice,” and further weaken the democratic state.
Modern nation-states are democratic and are illegitimate to the degree that they are not.
“In all states which differ from democracy, the state, the law, the constitution are sovereign without being properly dominant, that is to say without materially affecting the other non-political spheres. In democracy, the constitution, the law, the state itself are only the people’s self-determination, a specific aspect of it, in so far as that aspect has a political constitution.” T.B. Bottomore, Ed., K. Marx, Early Writings (London 1963) p. 435.
Governments exist by the consent of the governed, or the institution of social control is not a government. Such is a tribe, a church, a colony, a criminal organization, or a plantation; not a government. It may exact huge tolls on humanity, but it can never serve it.
In the rush to create publicity photos and send shock and awe through immigrant communities in the U.S., more than one person kidnapped by ICE and sent to a Salvadoran slave prison was neither a “Tren de Agua” gang member nor a criminal. Just a legal, Salvadoran immigrant who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, looking and sounding too Latino to be innocent.
The efficiency of eliminating Due Process is the burden of proof shifts to the accused, and they are not allowed to present a defense. Guilty as charged.
The deportation of the alleged Venezuelan gang members happened in defiance of a court order not to do so.
Despite the court order, the planes were not rerouted back to the U.S.
The particulars of the case are still being worked out—Trump has called for Boasberg’s impeachment—and the Judiciary’s lack of an enforcement mechanism leaves little hope for a legal resolution. Indisputably, the President broke the law when violating the court order, but the President cannot ever be held responsible for breaking the law when conducting what the Supreme Court might find an Official Duty. Since border protection of any imaginable sort would fall under an Official Duty, there is no means to hold the President accountable for gross and repeated contempt of court.
Recall Little Marco Rubio’s trip to El Salvador, right after he was confirmed as Secretary of State? He was on an advanced scouting mission, seeking ad hoc concentration camps in Spanish-speaking nations, which indicated who the primary targets were going to be.
I asked then, who is paying for this imprisonment plan? What is El Salvador getting in exchange for participating in crimes against humanity and—if Trump’s labeling this action as a “war” response is followed—war crimes?
We find now that the White House acknowledged they grabbed a Permanent Resident who was not a gang member and who, it turns out, committed no crime.
The Trump administration acknowledged late Monday that it mistakenly deported a Salvadoran man protected from removal, sending him to a facility in El Salvador where they argue they are unable to secure his return.
The filing came in a case brought by the family of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia after his wife recognized him in footage released of a group of migrants the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison.
“Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the Justice Department wrote in the court filing.
The filing went on to state that they do not believe they can secure Abrego Garcia’s return from El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, also known as CECOT. There is no plan to return him to the United States, however.
Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5225688-trump-administration-mistakenly-deports-salvadoran/
Due Process would have prevented his deportation and now it would be the sole remedy, but it is no longer being applied. The only reason the Trump administration acknowledged they got the wrong guy is to let everyone else know it does not matter to them. They reject justice, because they are the perpetrators.
What are the conditions of the contract Rubio entered into? Is slavery sufficient—does the El Salvadoran prison industry run like the privatized U.S. version, where the inmate’s presence equals positive daily revenue? There is a formal agreement, written somewhere. It will be difficult to procure, as the State Department is sure to violate subpoenas in their ongoing effort to cover up their crimes.
Snatching people from their homes is sure to have a violent outcome. ICE is relying on immigrants not to be armed (I wonder how many weapons were seized from the alleged “gang members”—given no reports and no shootings, I suspect no weapons were present). Un-uniformed ICE agents will again try to grab the wrong people—armed Americans this time—and people will be killed. Knowing innocent people are being disappeared a Stand Your Ground approach is understandable, only instead of defending a homestead from being overtaken, it would be one’s nation.
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