Abrego Garcia — along with many others condemned without due process — are now in prison in El Salvador with little chance of release and no ability to defend themselves against accusations thrown at them in the #USA — a place that (at least at some point) was the ‘land of immigrants.’

/10
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Note: Abrego Garcia is married to an American citizen & has American kids. Though he entered the #US without authorization at age 16, he has lived, worked & paid taxes legally in the #USA since being granted a protected status by a judge several years ago. He has no criminal history.

The #Trump admin has been accusing him of many things without proof, including being an MS-13 gang member. The latest is that he is a woman beater, which his wife denies.

/9

Does that make sense? No, but it doesn’t have to. It just has to persuade enough people to live in fear.

And speaking of making no sense— the WH press secretary let a mother of a slain woman speak during a recent press conference. She told her tragic story to drum up emotional responses & gain support for the #Trump admin deporting #AbregoGarcia (& others) to a horrific foreign prison for life w/o due process.

Facts: Mr. Garcia had nothing to do w/ the woman’s story.

/7

Turns out I'm still a writer. New today on NIDC:

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/16/fascist-word-games-and-the-birth-of-an-american-dictatorship/

Fascist Word Games and the Birth of an American Dictatorship

"Step by step the Christian Nationalist Trump regime has followed a playbook that transforms fascist propaganda into administrative reality, while purposely fracturing the rule of law to liberate itself from judicial oversight. If the United States was a Middle Eastern oil-producing nation full of Muslims, our government would be openly advocating for an invasion to “liberate” the American people and stop “tyranny.” Of course, maybe none of that matters anyway because unless someone stops him, there will be no law in this country except Trump’s word, and no America to save, except what Trump wills America to be."

"Yet there is another reason Abrego Garcia is useful as a captive body: his fate speaks to the apparent randomness of authoritarian repression. Autocracies encourage compliance by telegraphing that anyone can be a target. And now 'anyone,' including, theoretically, U.S. citizens born in the United States, could end up in a Salvadoran hellhole from which there is no exit."

#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #fascism
/12

"The strongman would be nothing without bodies to control. He needs crowds to acclaim his projects of national greatness on camera, taxpayers and crypto investors to fund his bank accounts, soldiers to fight his wars, and enemy bodies to retain as captives."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #fascism
/11

https://lucid.substack.com/p/bukeles-bodies-authoritarian-aesthetics

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura speaks out, saying that she hopes "the strength of faith and the resilience within us will keep us standing after all the punches we continue to receive." In featuring this video, the God blog says,

"Jennifer’s voice is the sermon. Let her speak. Let it wreck you. Let it remind you what this country is doing in your name."

#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct
/10

https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/god-has-not-forgotten-you-kilmar

"If this sounds like a fascist regime, that’s because it is. We have entered a dangerous territory, and not enough people are sounding the alarm."

N.B. My apologies: excerpts /4 and /5 are out of order: what's labeled as /5 should be /4 and vice versa.

#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #courts #Boasberg #fascism
/4

"On Wednesday, US District Judge James Boasberg ruled that 'probable cause exists' to hold Trump Administration officials in criminal contempt for violating his court order regarding the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to an El Salvador prison."

~ Wajahat Ali

N.B. Excerpts /4 and /5 are out of order: what's labeled as /5 should be /4 and vice versa.

#Trump #ICE #AbregoGarcia #deportations #ElSalvador #Bukele #AlienEnemiesAct #courts #Boasberg
/5

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-contempt-of-a-fascist-regime