>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?

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.