I guess the narrative is that the US (the most powerful country in the world) cannot compel El Salvador (the country they are paying) to release the prisoners they sent there.
Technically it is separate, but I would suggest it is very related.
Due process is not getting provided to deportees. We already know for a fact one of the people sent shouldn’t have been, and no attempts to rectify the issue are being made.
The message that was being sent even before that, but more so now, seems clear to me. That message is that anyone can be disappeared, for any reason, and it doesn’t matter if the person in question did anything wrong.
That’s why I was suggesting poking this particular badger is unwise, citizen or not.
Well, I usually bring a cheap dumbphone in case of emergency, but I didn’t give the number to anyone, if it’s even turned on to begin with.
I don’t always need it.
Unfortunately, recently they added enormous fees for paper train tickets over here in Slovakia.
€1 for one-way purchased in station
€2 for two-way purchased in station
€3 if purchased in train (this purchase was always something used in a case when tickets weren’t sold on departure station/stop, otherwise there is/was a €5 fine for that purchase)
Not to a US citizen.
For others, may as well bring a phone that’s specific for traveling that doesn’t have anything on it. Maybe even a dumb phone.
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Good luck arguing THAT point from the El Salvador concentration camp.
I guess the narrative is that the US (the most powerful country in the world) cannot compel El Salvador (the country they are paying) to release the prisoners they sent there.
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That’s a separate problem, as far as I’m aware.
Technically it is separate, but I would suggest it is very related.
Due process is not getting provided to deportees. We already know for a fact one of the people sent shouldn’t have been, and no attempts to rectify the issue are being made.
The message that was being sent even before that, but more so now, seems clear to me. That message is that anyone can be disappeared, for any reason, and it doesn’t matter if the person in question did anything wrong.
That’s why I was suggesting poking this particular badger is unwise, citizen or not.
Tell that to the US citizens that were deported recently for the heinous crime of…having a tattoo.
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I’m so old, I remember a time when people left home without a phone at all.
I still do that sometimes.
Well, I usually bring a cheap dumbphone in case of emergency, but I didn’t give the number to anyone, if it’s even turned on to begin with.
I don’t always need it.
Unfortunately, recently they added enormous fees for paper train tickets over here in Slovakia.
€1 for one-way purchased in station
€2 for two-way purchased in station
€3 if purchased in train (this purchase was always something used in a case when tickets weren’t sold on departure station/stop, otherwise there is/was a €5 fine for that purchase)
So you kind of need a phone, again.