Trump's Policies Part 4

[Tidewater]

I get Garcia had due process and should be deported. But why is he in prison? Deported illegal immigrants are not just returned to their emigrating country?

That I do not know. I suspect that the US asked El Sal to hold him in prison (and paid for that service). Maybe the point is to "encourage" illegal aliens to self-deport before ICE grabs them and deports them whether it is convenient or not. Better to leave un your own timeframe. (settle debts, close accounts, find somewhere else to go). If you wait until ICE deports you, you may go to CECOT, which looks like no fun.

Welker touched on this a bit. The president of El Sal said he could not send Garcia back to the US. Trump said he has not asked. I think if they wanted to, it could happen in a day.
If it were me, I'd fly him to Brownsville, have a judge and all the witnesses needed on hand, bring him him before the judge, decide his case, put him back on the plane and fly him back to El Sal.

As for the deportation, it could well be that the Immigration Judge amended the withholding order to reflect he cannot be deported to either El Salvador or Guatemala. If so, Trump Administration is in some trouble, but I would like to see the amended order.

 

[Tidewater]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/04/trump-nbc-interview-constitution-economy/

Trump says, ‘I don’t know,’ when asked if he’s required to uphold Constitution

One wonders how federal judges would respond to the same question.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Closed on orders from his HHS Secretary’s dad.

Reopening it is a stupid idea even for Trump. It cost way too much to operate and renovating it to where it would be serviceable as a prison would cost way too much money. It is doing fine as a tourist attraction.

Building another ADX Florence style prison would be more cost efficient.

This guy has had the same convictions since he was six years old, which would’ve been in 1952. I will almost guarantee you that Alcatraz is the only prison he could even name. He has a bizarre fixation on what he thinks he understood as a child and his brain never developed. He’s stuck in white America 1958, before “those people” drove the whiteness of Queens from 96% to 78% (1960) when “they”left Harlem. He probably thinks the Yankees are still winning the World Series every year. And will come out one day proposing we send a man to the moon.

 

[some_al_fan]

Make Alcatraz Great Again (MAGA)

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I enjoyed Twitter last night since the general consensus is that with his movie tariff and Alcatraz obsession he was obviously watching a movie, perhaps “The Rock,” although if he was you gotta figure he’d be asking why “the real Rock” wasn’t in the movie.

Look at his fixations
- the JFK files
- Alcatraz
- the gold at Fort Knox (musta saw Goldfinger)
- the vaccine schedule
- JFK signed the Trade Expansion Act, which gave the president authority to impose, tariffs without congressional interference

The dude is mentally stuck in the culture time frame of 1963-64.

His next proposal is likely to be “we should bring the World’s Fair back to New York!”

 

[Its On A Slab]

And will come out one day proposing we send a man to the moon.

As we all know, it would be FAKE NEWS.

 

[spidermayin]

Official White House account on X: View attachment 50735

So, it's ironic that Trump is holding a red light saber here, which is mostly used by the sith and other dark side users.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

So, it's ironic that Trump is holding a red light saber here, which is mostly used by the sith and other dark side users.

Trust me - he’s never seen even one of the movies.

 

[cdub55]

Disabled American Veterans (DAV) has posted a long statement about the proposal to rename Veterans Day. It is worth a read:

DAV statement on the proposal to rename Veterans Day

www.dav.org

Say less...

 

[cdub55]

He has the mind of a child.

Starting to think the movie Benjamin Button was actually a documentary about Trump...

 

[CrimsonNagus]

What's he waiting for, either do it or move on. Why waffle again?

Because he can't end the ban. TikTok was banned by a federal law passed by congress, signed by Biden and upheld by the SCOTUS. Trump cannot erase that with an EO. Technically the delay was illegal because the law said the ban could only be delayed if a sell was pending, and only for 90 days. No sell was, or is, pending, but our current congress continues to sit on the sideline watching Trump erode their power.