In fresh days, the image of the United States has deteriorated again. It's all about the past of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, A 24-year-old man deported in March by the government of Donald Trump to the infamous Center for the Isolation of Terrorism (Spanish Centro de Confinamiento del Terrirismo, CECOT) in El Salvador — the largest prison in Latin America.
According to the Trump Garcia administration, he was a associate of the MS-13 gang. But it turned out to be false — The government acknowledged that it was incorrect and, as part of a "administrative error", sentenced 1 of the most severe prisoners of a man who had never been prosecuted for anything Neither the suspect in America.
In fact, the situation is most likely the other of what the government originally represented — Kilmar Abrego Garcia not only is not a gang member, but he illegally fled to the United States 8 years ago for fear of him. The Americans deported him without appropriate interrogation and without the anticipation of cancellation. And even the judges supporting Trump said so.
No retreat
The case went to the ultimate Court, which despite its conservative and theoretical advantages The Trump of Judges, voted unequivocally 9 to 0 for the US administration to "organise" his return to the US. But this 1 refused. She said she didn't gotta and couldn't do it, due to the fact that Garcia is already in the hands of another country where neither the powers of the U.S. Government nor the ultimate Court apply.
El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele has stated that he will not extradite Garcia. But he didn't say why. He simply stated that he could not imagine how he could send him back to the United States against the will of the Americans.
U.S. authorities are looking for excuses for El Salvador, and El Salvador justifies the Trump administration. No 1 respects the decisions of the ultimate Court, the US authorities act against the Constitution, and A 24-year-old man is in a prison hell designed for gang members only. In the country he illegally fled to the United States for fear of torture or death. At this point, it all points to no return for him.
Donald Trump clearly has a soft place for Bugele — this week men met at the White House. The president of El Salvador has been accepted much warmer than, say, Volodymyr Zelenski.
Black Hole
But the real scary thing is, In America, a kind of black gap opened — It allows hundreds of people to vanish in violent Salvadoran prisons without recourse or the right to a just trial. Kilmar Abrego Garcia's communicative echoed a loud echo in the media. However, the names of most another deportees are unknown to the public. Many of them have never been left behind in the United States for anything.
Some of the deportees' relatives claim that their loved ones were detained on the basis of tattoos akin but not identical to those worn by members of Salvadoran gangs. It is certain that the Americans deported 10 more people to El Salvador this week and made it clear that this was not the end of it — Trump even recommended the construction of more prisons during the meeting.
The U.S. becomes a country from which you can vanish without trial and appeal in violent prisons abroad. And even if the authorities admit to a mistake, and the U.S. ultimate Court orders that we fix it, it absolutely does not change anything for the victims.
College protest
Universities are besides rebelling against Trump administration. Of course, the primacy is led by Harvard University, which, unlike Columbia University, rejected the list of demands of the U.S. administration that profoundly interfere with its activities. Let's say it's a private facility.
On the 1 hand, Harvard can afford it due to the fact that he's just rich. And indeed — the government responded to his ‘no’, freezing over $2 billion (PLN 7.5 billion) of national funds and threatening to importantly tighten the taxation strategy under which the university operates.
Columbia University has bent, but nothing's changed yet. Trump's administration wants to humiliate and weaken liberal universities. He besides has 60 another institutions on his radar — and Harvard is not alone in his opposition. The smaller but very crucial University of Wesleyan Ohio, besides announced that it would not respond positively to the government's list of demands.
In the United States, then, an open conflict is increasing between universities, which, as the fresh York Times late stated, must decide whether to defend the essence of their existence and soul, or to bow down under force from the authorities. If they pull themselves together and find the courage, they will feel it financially. However, it will be 1 of the very strong flashes of rebellion in an increasingly dark American sky.
