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LurkerMom: 'Take A Look Inside This MASSIVE Prison That Is Now Home For 40,000 Gang Members In El Salvador
As other news reports have pointed out, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment on Thursday against alleged MS-13 gang leaders that accuses senior Salvadoran officials of negotiating with criminal groups to curb violence, making this announcement seem very much like a loud shout of "SQUIRREL!" Salvadoran presidents have a long history of making deals with the country's gangs and here's yet another one.
According to Human Rights Watch, 'Security forces have detained hundreds of Salvadorans with no connection to gangs, held them incommunicado, tortured some of them in prison, and subjected detainees to Kafkian legal proceedings that makes it difficult, if not impossible, for them to defend themselves.' Reportedly, the grounds for arrest seem to make it possible to arrest almost anyone: having tattoos, living in neighborhoods that have gangs and looking like criminals.
Interesting resources you have there: The Gateway Pundit, the American Conservative, GangScope, and Judicial Watch. Only the American Conservative gets a clean report from Media Bias Fact Check. They don't recognize GangScope and neither do I. I skimmed though it and it's rather poorly written. The Washington Post piece seemed more like a fact-free glamour piece for ICE than real journalism.
Sources aside, again, no one disputes that immigration is a serious and challenging issue that needs to be addressed but here's the problem: republicans have no interest in legislatively addressing immigration. In 2008, the republican party platform wanted a fence on the southern border. In 2012, a double fence. In 2016, a wall. In 2020, they had no platform. Republicans senators who previously were open to immigration reform -- Rubio, Graham, Grassley, and others -- have folded like cheap suits to the Trump Cult.
