• vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    The US government, like all governments, is comprised of individual people with varying motivations. The person asking for his return is not part of the executive branch, which is what’s paying to keep people in CECOT.

    A sitting Senator who is a member of the minority opposition party is asking for him to be returned. The US administration is paying the Salvadoran government to keep him there. The VP of El Salvador told Senator Van Hollen that if the US embassy asked for him to be released they would release him.

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      3 days ago

      A sitting Senator who is a member of the minority opposition party is asking for him to be returned.

      You’ve buried the lede so deep. Try “the nine justices of the Supreme Court made a unanimous decision.”