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General Mar 22, 2026 at 10:51 AM

Trump administration seeks to move ahead with removing Abrego Garcia to Liberia

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https://abcnews.com/US/trump-administration-seeks-move-ahead-removing-abrego-garcia/story?id=131272186
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NKD_WA Mar 22, 2026 +2506
More money has been spent going after this guy than going after the Ayatollah.
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Stand_Up_3813 Mar 22, 2026 +714
And for no good reason. Leave the guy alone already. Fuckin ridiculous.
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CielRouge74 Mar 22, 2026 +355
But he had MS13 Photshopped on his fingers!
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Upset-Disaster1907 Mar 22, 2026 +77
Good call! \*Spins a wheel of third world countries\*
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Khaldara Mar 22, 2026 +36
“You expect a conservative to admit fault? From the Party of Personal Responsibility? No, next we claim his grandma is Supreme AntiFa overlord! Double-woke, DEI too!” - Right Wing Media
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RedTheRobot Mar 23, 2026 +7
I think you mean MS Painted on his fingers.
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SafetyMan35 Mar 22, 2026 +90
“But he embarrassed us and made us look like fools”
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czs5056 Mar 22, 2026 +21
It's for the best reason, making dear leader look incompetent by fighting back and winning.
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sharrrper Mar 23, 2026 +23
He's literally OFFERED to self-deport to Costa Rica which has also offered him sanctuary, but the admin is insisting on sending him to Africa. There's literally no possible explanation other than malicious cruelty. If you're really just trying to get him out of the country it shouldn't matter whay his destination is.
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InputAnAnt Mar 23, 2026 +15
He is inconvenient to their narrative. Treating him fairly would undermine their slanderous characterisation of him and immigrants (non-white European) in general and the fiction of Trump and his goons as powerful manly-men.
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Wranorel Mar 23, 2026 +3
Oh, there is a reason. To show no one can escape the regime.
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SafetyMan35 Mar 22, 2026 +12
“But he embarrassed us and made us look like fools”
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linoleum79 Mar 22, 2026 +55
Or providing Healthcare to Americans.
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digidave1 Mar 23, 2026 +4
Exactly. The millions spent on transportation, litigation and overall government hours could have given thousands of people healthcare for the rest of Trump's miserable life
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Supreme_Primate Mar 22, 2026 +24
For real what is the fixation on this one guy? Guess Shitler is butt hurt.
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thylocene Mar 23, 2026 +23
He embarrassed them
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jupiterkansas Mar 23, 2026 +7
He didn't do anything. They embarrassed themselves.
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EngineeringDevil Mar 23, 2026 +2
That is an incredibly low bar though
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SpeshellED Mar 22, 2026 +16
Petty little pricks. USA is run by complete wankers.
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ReallyGottaTakeAPiss Mar 22, 2026 +5
I’m gonna go out on a whim and say that a carrier group is a bit more expensive than that…
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oaxacamm Mar 22, 2026 +26
I think you meant limb.
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ITAdministratorHB Mar 22, 2026 +11
I kinda like this malapropism. Might start using it.
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HumanChicken Mar 22, 2026 +3
And yet, the military literally went out on Trump’s whim.
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Whoman722 Mar 22, 2026 +1
They believe they’re linked I’m sure.
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Free_Stomach_6767 Mar 23, 2026 +1
Do you actually think so??? Mobilizing an army, moving air craft carriers, spending increased costs on fuel, erc.
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omnipotentqueue Mar 23, 2026 -10
He should have just moved down to Mexico after he was first released - his family could have relocated to a border state and just had a bridge to cross to visit him. Now it’s going to be a f****** ocean apart. I know a family that had to do that - narrowly escaped ICE and escaped to Mexico to avoid being incarcerated in some terrible cold ass facility. They hired a good lawyer - and have appealed a seat belt infraction that was never dropped by a court - so they issued a warrant for them. It was the courts fault, and they’re in the final stages of having those orders reversed.
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ithinkitslupis Mar 22, 2026 +893
Somehow maga and trump have decided we must pay any cost necessary to deport this one man, otherwise they lose face or something?
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Possible_Top4855 Mar 22, 2026 +393
Costa Rica already said they’d accept him, and he wants to go there, but no, we must send him to Liberia because we probably have an agreement to imprison him there
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Medricel Mar 22, 2026 +208
This is what I assume. If Costa Rica takes him but leaves him free, he can more easily relay his experiences with the rest of the world. Imprisoned, he won't be able to keep his name and message in the light, like the US fed wants.
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Dr_thri11 Mar 22, 2026 +76
If he gets flown to Liberia, Costa Rica and they tell Trump he got sent to Liberia there's like a 50/50 shot he'd declare victory and double down on that's what he meant the whole time after being explained that they're different places.
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GingeredPickle Mar 22, 2026 +11
Maybe their incompetence will send him to Liberia, costa rica.
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jwferguson Mar 22, 2026 +63
They could have deported him for months, he just wanted to be sent to Costa Rica.
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oaxacamm Mar 22, 2026 +9
Plus it’s harder for him to get back to his original country.
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wastingtoomuchthyme Mar 22, 2026 +76
Come on it's a slippery slope.. If they don't deport him.. .... Then someone's going to flip.. ....... And Trump goes to prison.... ............. Same security guards as Epstein... So yeah you got to deport that guy
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Possible_Top4855 Mar 22, 2026 +29
Costa Rica already said they’d accept him, and he wants to go there, but no, we must send him to Liberia because we probably have an agreement to imprison him there
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Dr_thri11 Mar 22, 2026 +8
Compromise by sending him to Liberia, Costa Rica?
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notreal088 Mar 23, 2026 +2
This is exactly it. They can’t be seen as losing under any circumstance. So if they lose they try again, change the goal post or say it wasn’t that important. The issue with this particular case is they can’t say it wasn’t that important after all the effort they put in already. There is no way to move the goal post either, so the only thing left is to keep trying things until something works. Welcome to NK where the leader is always right.
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Xanius Mar 22, 2026 +551
Interesting how this administration keeps making deals with countries that are notorious for human rights violations, it’s almost as if they like that aspect…
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VladimiroPudding Mar 22, 2026 +165
Cruelty is the point.
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DialecticEnjoyer Mar 23, 2026 +5
This whole article reads like c**** propaganda from ABC. Every sentence is filled with ifs and when's. As of now he's here and the order restricting his reincarceration has not been prorogued by a judge. The administration wants that order dissolved. It likely will not prevail in its request.
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MicrotracS3500 Mar 23, 2026 +16
>Every sentence is filled with ifs and when's. There's two "if"s that are not in a direct quote, one of which is about a judge protecting his safety, and literally not a single "when". What the actual f*** are you talking about? Are you hallucinating right now? >Although Abrego Garcia has said he's willing to be sent to Costa Rica, Acting Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said in a memo filed in court that he has "decided to disregard" that request and **intends to send him to Liberia if Abrego Garcia is ordered removed from the U.S** >In part, Lyons said Abrego Garcia initially had designated his home country of El Salvador as his chosen place to be sent during his initial removal proceedings in 2019 before a judge barred his deportation finding that **his life could be at risk if he were to return there**. Genuinely, what is wrong with your head that you think this is "propaganda"?
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VladimiroPudding Mar 23, 2026 +16
Then in this case it is not propaganda, it is exactly what they are reporting: government is seeking something. They might succeed, or not succeed, depending on the Judiciary. But they are seeking.
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AudibleNod Mar 22, 2026 +724
>Lyons also said the administration had already negotiated Abrego Garcia's removal with the government of Liberia and that abandoning that agreement "could cast doubt on the diplomatic reliability of the United States." You mean like the diplomatic reliability of this? [Trump removes nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial positions](https://apnews.com/article/diplomacy-ambassadors-state-department-1a10058998c86e799ce4e5132a99da18) Or this? [Trump's not happy about Wall Street's name for tariff flip-flops](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/28/trump-wall-street-acronym-tariffs-00372814)
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Miserable_Archer_769 Mar 22, 2026 +71
Its more nefarious than that if it goes to the Supreme Court then what Liberia just stated will absolutely be used to state something something "National Security" coupled with the allowances he already has. I still want people to remember half this shit is kinda legal because we are in a state of emergency STILL giving him even broader powers which should be voted on by Congress every 30 days
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TheDwarvenGuy Mar 22, 2026 +19
They're gonna say "foreign policy is the sole domain of the President" and thus give the president the ability to do anything solong as he promises to do it to anyother country
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DietSteve Mar 22, 2026 +10
What emergency exactly? Aside from the one dipshit is causing?
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SilverHawk7 Mar 22, 2026 +7
He declared that we're under an active invasion by illegal immigrants, cartel narco-terrorists, gang members, and hostile government operatives.
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meirav Mar 22, 2026 +15
"diplomatic reliability f the United States" AYFKM? (not OP, the article she or he is quoting)
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Juxtapoisson Mar 22, 2026 +9
"the administration had already negotiated Abrego Garcia's removal with the government of Liberia and that abandoning that agreement "could cast doubt on the diplomatic reliability of the United States."" this is insane, even by the current standards of insanity. there is no way to parse that even begins to make sense with out the assumption that Garcia is property of the usa.
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MicrotracS3500 Mar 23, 2026 +6
They say "diplomatic reliability" like Liberia is going to get their feelings hurt if we don't send him there. The whole thing would be a political nightmare, reporters would show up to report on the living conditions, their politicians would be under scrutiny and questioning, I'm sure they would be *glad* to not take part in this ridiculous charade.
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parker1019 Mar 22, 2026 +200
How about we ship the PEDOPHILE KING there instead….
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Fomdoo Mar 22, 2026 +104
Are they just throwing darts at a map trying to find places to send this guy.
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LoserBroadside Mar 22, 2026 +108
No. They want to send him someplace where he’ll be tortured. To send the rest of us a message. 
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pudding7 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Is he going to jail in Liberia, or just dropped off at the airport?
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SweetLoLa Mar 22, 2026 +9
I was just thinking this dumbass spins a globe, closes his eyes and puts his coagulated finger down and wherever it stops that’s the decision.
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SmallRocks Mar 22, 2026 +171
Jesus Christ, you’d think this man fucked Melania and stole Donald’s children with how much effort they are putting into burning this guy.
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1nvertedAfram3 Mar 22, 2026 +54
Miller's got a fearboner for this guy and his small hands are deftly at work behind the scenes trying to deport him 
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SLGuitar Mar 22, 2026 +17
Someone needs to have a long distance conversation with Stephen Miller...
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SmallRocks Mar 22, 2026 +4
Where’s Gunny when you need him?
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SmallRocks Mar 22, 2026 +3
Gunny is retired
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danktopus Mar 23, 2026 +9
Miller got into politics because those hands are too small to strangle hookers.
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1nvertedAfram3 Mar 23, 2026 +2
truer words have never been spoken 
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KlebicoFranks Mar 22, 2026 +9
Pedo-in-Chief doesn't love his children. Why the hell would he care if they got kidnapped?
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mr-fatburger Mar 23, 2026 +5
Barron is 20 already. They're all WAY to old for him at this point
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kwangqengelele Mar 23, 2026 +2
He has for sure loved ONE of his children. Multiple times over the decades, probably tapered off when she got a bit older...
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MoodayTV Mar 22, 2026 +52
Guarantee he could make a GoFundMe, bank that, and apply for asylum in Europe. It's garbage that he has to jump through these hoops just to live in peace, but I have a feeling he can get to a good place. Shameful that we put people through this.
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Possible_Top4855 Mar 22, 2026 +73
Costa Rica already said they’d accept him and he said he’s willing to go there. Unfortunately, this administration probably has an agreement for Liberia to imprison him, and he must be punished for defying the Trump administration. Last I heard, most of the third country deportees we send to African nations have been locked up indefinitely without charges.
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EmergencyCucumber905 Mar 23, 2026 +5
Liberia is fucked up: [https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/liberia](https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/liberia)
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DrunkeNinja Mar 23, 2026 +3
Yeah that's why anything else from this administration is just dishonest and cruel. I remember reading about Costa Rica awhile back and as you stated, both he and the country are in mutual agreement but the Trump administration wants to send this dude somewhere to be tortured. If it was only about deporting Jim, this could have already been achieved.
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chickenery Mar 22, 2026 +45
Why don’t the courts EVER punish vexatious litigants?
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Future-Raisin3781 Mar 22, 2026 +20
Because one of the courts gave one of the vexatious litigants "absolute presidential immunity," which is not a real thing but good luck arguing that case with the Supreme Court that invented it out of thin f****** air.
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Sweatytubesock Mar 22, 2026 +21
How about instead we ship out acting president Stephen Miller?
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shellsandsnails Mar 22, 2026 +35
That’s weird, I’m pretty sure he isn’t Liberian
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SuperDBallSam Mar 22, 2026 +14
It's almost like these people don't understand the word no. 
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Y0___0Y Mar 22, 2026 +15
The courts ordered he cannot be deported to his home country of El Salvador so Trump is just trying to deport him to another country to try to hurt him as revenge. Even though Abrego Garcia didn’t do anything to Trump or this administration. They’re mad because of their own mistake. Their lawyer admitted in court that they mistakenly deported Garcia.
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Hydra_Flatline Mar 26, 2026 +1
It hurt itself in its confusion. That should be on the Trump coin.
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gnanny02 Mar 23, 2026 +15
From the Article: the administration had already negotiated Abrego Garcia's removal with the government of Liberia and that abandoning that agreement "could cast doubt on the diplomatic reliability of the United States.” Pretty sure it’s already shot.
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Speedracer666 Mar 22, 2026 +28
I’d forgotten about him. We all would’ve by now. But they keep reminding us how much a bunch of a$&holes they are.
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wizzard419 Mar 22, 2026 +29
I can still hear all the people saying "He won't go after him again, the courts said no". Basically just like everything else, he broke the number one law for the nation, going against king daddy.
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dbigjaybowski Mar 22, 2026 +61
This guy is the road runner to magas Wyle E Coyote. This would be such a non story if they could just let it go and focus on their other crimes.
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spottie_ottie Mar 22, 2026 +14
Boy they really hate this particular dude lol
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Dirty_Hertz Mar 22, 2026 +13
>abandoning that agreement "could cast doubt on the diplomatic reliability of the United States." Yep, that's what will do it.
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RabidRoosters Mar 22, 2026 +20
They sure have hard dicks for this guy.
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rubber_neckin_media Mar 23, 2026 +8
The only reason they are continuously going after him is because time and time again, they have been ruled against. It has made them look like the fools they are. If they can get him out of the US, for good, it will be considered winning. If they can do that to him when there is a court order, they can do it to anyone. That's the point. Everyone should be watching their backs.
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cellyn Mar 23, 2026 +7
Holy shit why do they have such a raging boner for this one man in particular? f****** weird.
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AdhesivenessFun2060 Mar 22, 2026 +34
This is clearly retribution for fighting the case. They literally said they would do this of he fought it. Anyone that signs off on this is openly corrupt.
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furrysalesman69 Mar 22, 2026 +61
What’s the orange vaginathroat up to today, eh?
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Faithinreason Mar 22, 2026 +32
“Mango thrussy”
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Jabromosdef Mar 22, 2026 +8
Ain’t juiced up today. News cycle will be ice in airports, Iran escalation, and the funny citrus fruit trick to get nats go away. Here at 11
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lizarny Mar 23, 2026 +5
Hmmm. What do you call moving someone against their will to a country that is not the place of their birth? Something something , human trafficking?
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HansSolo69er Mar 24, 2026 +1
The Soviets (among others) referred to it as exile. But in this case, as in all the others originally involved in Rubio's deal with Bukele, there's serious 💰💰💰💰 involved...so yes, that does make it international human trafficking between 2 different governments. At least this time they're apparently being tight-lipped on the terms of the arrangement with Liberia. 
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elykl12 Mar 22, 2026 +9
I'm confused. Didn't the Iranians just hit Abrego Garcia with missiles? /s
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29187765432569864 Mar 22, 2026 +6
another distraction from Trump being in the Epstein files thousands of times
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Shesversatile Mar 23, 2026 +5
Ohhh my goddddd! Leave this man alone. This is so pathetic.
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bulbusmaximus Mar 22, 2026 +9
"said he's willing to be deported to Costa Rica" - Bro, same. F****** deport me to Costa Rica and I'll never come back.
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Pizzicati Mar 22, 2026 +5
Personally I’d rather see Tur/nip moved to Nigeria:
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darcerin Mar 23, 2026 +5
I thought a judge ruled that the Trump administration couldn't touch him?!
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PhotonDealer2067 Mar 23, 2026 +5
I’m tired, boss. Can I get off this ride now.
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Solleil Mar 23, 2026 +4
Holy shit, we're STILL talking about him?
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Hydra_Flatline Mar 26, 2026 +1
He was in the parking lot that one time 15 years ago when they forgot to file a report but it was like, really bad and stuff.
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VIK_96 Mar 22, 2026 +7
Why does he still care about Abrego Garcia? Just leave the man alone.
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tensor-ricci Mar 23, 2026 +3
But he's not from Liberia lmao
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No-Weakness-2035 Mar 23, 2026 +3
With fresh law school graduates? the DOJ is a skeleton crew that can’t win anything
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All_Hail_Hynotoad Mar 23, 2026 +3
And people wonder how Trump bankrupted six casinos. Extremely bad judgment when it comes to how to spend money. It’s all spite, vindictiveness. And even easier this time because it’s not his money.
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sklerson89 Mar 23, 2026 +4
Fascists hate being told no
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JimBeam823 Mar 22, 2026 +11
Get this man a plane ticket to Costa Rica and quit wasting my money.
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JLMaverick Mar 22, 2026 +2
/r/fuckyouinparticular
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Calm-Maintenance-878 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Curious where that man is going to land. It’s also a curious thing that our government doesn’t seem to spend any time on convicting him on human trafficking. You’d think it would be important to lock up such a dangerous criminal, not send them to any country that’ll take him.
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vincec36 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Bro, they’re still harassing this man? I forgot all about this
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stoic50 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Whatever this kid is guilty of he's paid for it 10 times over.
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cthulhus_tax_return Mar 22, 2026 +4
Headline is a little misleading, a judge ruled they can’t and they are appealing. This is like me saying I’m “moving forward” with getting my client out of prison just because I filed a notice of appeal from his guilty plea last week.
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JWAdvocate83 Mar 22, 2026 +2
> "Neither the statute nor the regulations permit an alien to designate a country of removal beyond the initial opportunity granted in removal proceedings. If, as here, an alien were permitted to designate a country of removal years after the conclusion of removal proceedings, an alien could avoid ever being removed by endlessly designating new countries of removal," Lyons wrote. If, if, if. If wishes were fishes I'd never go hungry. Who cares. The court only deals in **actual** controversies, not hypotheticals to justify sending someone to another continent where they have zero ties.
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King_James_77 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Just fully sending it on being cruel. If this is what conservatism is, it’s f****** abhorrent.
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fluffysmaster Mar 23, 2026
It’s not real conservatism. It’s just a doomsday cult.
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Dustonred Mar 22, 2026 +1
Removing? As in deporting?
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manical1 Mar 22, 2026 +1
I mean... it is either dementia or a bad case of ADHD. Trump and his administration just can't focus .
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ShubaltzTV Mar 23, 2026 +1
And I hope Xinis continues to tell them to f*** off
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Kradget Mar 22, 2026 +26
No, they just made a big deal about him being a big time criminal and trying to flex power by punishing him, and they just completely made up those claims but aren't willing to not f*** up this one man's life because what's the sunk cost fallacy?
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centipededamascus Mar 22, 2026 +40
No, there is no evidence that he is a human trafficker.
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Crazyblazy395 Mar 22, 2026 +39
Fun fact! You can defend the innocent AND alledged human traffickers by defending due process! If he is a human trafficker (he isn't) due process will do it's job. If he isn't (he clearly isn't) due process will do it's job. 
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this_is_dumb77 Mar 22, 2026 +30
No, he's just a dude who left El Salvador to escape gang shit when he was a teenager. But the govt has been making stuff up to try and tie him to MS-13 and such, none of which has stuck.
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MentokGL Mar 22, 2026 +21
His crime is completely different from the fact he was "deported" to the prison of a country he's not from. That should not be happening, full stop.
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vajrasana Mar 22, 2026 -6
Sorry, bro, idk why you’re getting downvoted. You make a lot of salient points.
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