Would love to see an example of a US citizen accidentally deported.
Im sure if this is true by some crazy chance, he came back to the USA very quickly.
I would rather love to see a reliable assurance that it won't happen, because of that soon-to-be forgotten American value of due process. It's been made abundantly clear already that if such a thing were to happen, and a citizen were deported to a prison in El Salvador, for example, such a person would not come back quickly because the US authorities consider such a person no longer in their jurisdiction, and the El Salvador authorities claim they have no ability to take a person out of their prisons. Not that I believe them, but that's the official version, which means that in all likelihood, a person mistakenly sent to prison in El Salvador will be out of luck entirely. The Garcia case makes it clear that as far as the current administration is concerned, mistakes of this kind will not be corrected.
I see that while I've been typing here, others have responded, and it appears there are definite instances of citizen deportations. I believe most involve people being shipped to Mexico. And I see by the response here that Hercules thinks it's not so bad. Only 70, and an assumption that it all got fixed up, no big deal. The utilitarian omelette has been consumed.
But the story of those mere bump-in-the-road no-big-deal deportations brings home a point I think has been woefully neglected in this whole argument. The deportations to El Salvador now under discussion
are not simply deportations. It's bad enough that they are being done without due process, but they are not simply that. People are not being thrown out of the country to fend for themselves there. They are being sentenced without trial or recourse to imprisonment by foreign powers for crimes...well not even actual crimes committed but status crimes. They are not simply being sent to the shores of another country. They are being sent, in shackles, directly to foreign prisons, on the untried
allegation that they might have committed offenses in yet another country, under the same provision that permitted the shameful internment of many thousands of Japanese Americans in the last century.
I know there are all sorts of arguments that these folks are, for the most part at least, bad guys and undesirables, and we're well rid of them. God knows there are plenty of people in this world, in this country, and probably even in this neighborhood, we'd be well rid of, and we can be forgiven for wishing so. But what's happening now is insane. This is not just deportation.
e.t.a removed a sentence. It's true that the government is sending anonymous masked gunmen to arrest people and handcuff them but not proven that they are being sent directly to foreign prisons. The handcuffs might come off and due process might occur.
