>stop sending American citizens
the person who was sent, and who should not have been sent, was a Salvadoran citizen and a legal resident alien of the US.
Please refrain from hyperbole in these times. If/when US citizens start getting sent to prison camps, we need to be able to tell each other that it is happening, and if you cry wolf now, nobody will believe you when it does actually happen.
It is bad enough that it happened to a legal alien. It's more important than ever that we be precise.
I disagree with this perspective because this case had a really obvious and flagrant violation of due process. The planes were in El Salvador before the courts had determined his citizenship/resident status.
It's moot that he wasn't a citizen because the response to it happening to a legal alien suggests that, if this happened to a citizen, the administration would claim that it is impossible to return him while Bukele talks about how absurd it would be to smuggle terrorists into the US, all while people are arguing over whether or not he's even a citizen, let alone what crimes he committed to justify detention and deportation in the first place.
Do you mean Abrego Garcia? What's your source that he is "a legal resident alien" ?
This says he is illegal and shouldn't have been here in the first place: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/04/14/icymi-dhs-sets-record-st...
Or is there another person?
He entered the US illegally when he was 16 but was granted a "withholding of removal" status by the judicial branch. He had no contact with law enforcement since then, aside from his annual check-ins with ICE. The Supreme Court unanimously concluded that he was deported illegally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G...
A judge granted him ‘withholding of removal’ status, and SCOTUS has determined his removal unlawful.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-wants-deport-so...
Nothing is hyperbole with Trump. "He hasn't done that yet" is the refrain from every Trump-apologist right up until he does the thing. This cycle has happened dozens of times.
To argue that someone should stop doing something implies that they already are doing that.
So your gripe is that my theoretical argument could be happening in the future, or that you have to change "citizen" to "legal resident", or that you have to change "stop" to "don't", or that you have to substitute it for any of literally dozens of abhorrent Trump policies? And that's why my point is invalid? Trump has openly stated that he wants to send American citizens to El Salvadorian prison camps, and I'm being completely unreasonable in imagining arguing against that?