Will Thibeau
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I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
Well, there is administrative error, but they deported an El Salvadoran citizen back to El Salvador who crossed illegally in 2012, was detained in 2019, and then tried to claim asylum. He never had asylum. So his protected status, quote unquote, was not that he couldn't be removed from the country. He could. He was a removable alien.
Well, there is administrative error, but they deported an El Salvadoran citizen back to El Salvador who crossed illegally in 2012, was detained in 2019, and then tried to claim asylum. He never had asylum. So his protected status, quote unquote, was not that he couldn't be removed from the country. He could. He was a removable alien.
The only protection he had was being removed to El Salvador in particular. So there was this underlying flaw, but even so, the idea that there's some profound injustice here, that's just wrong.
The only protection he had was being removed to El Salvador in particular. So there was this underlying flaw, but even so, the idea that there's some profound injustice here, that's just wrong.
Well, it just means that they should have gone through a process to try and get his this withholding of removal revoked.
Well, it just means that they should have gone through a process to try and get his this withholding of removal revoked.
You know, the reason this withholding of removal was granted is because he came up with this sob story in 2019 where he said, if you send me back to El Salvador, I am likely to be persecuted, maybe even murdered by the 18th Street gang, which is with MS-13, one of the or was rather one of the big gangs in El Salvador.
You know, the reason this withholding of removal was granted is because he came up with this sob story in 2019 where he said, if you send me back to El Salvador, I am likely to be persecuted, maybe even murdered by the 18th Street gang, which is with MS-13, one of the or was rather one of the big gangs in El Salvador.
But in the interim, Nayib Bukele has become the president of El Salvador and has effectively punished and has effectively done something to actually deal with these gangs. And as a result, El Salvador is a safe country now. And the underlying reason why he couldn't be deported there is gone.
But in the interim, Nayib Bukele has become the president of El Salvador and has effectively punished and has effectively done something to actually deal with these gangs. And as a result, El Salvador is a safe country now. And the underlying reason why he couldn't be deported there is gone.
So the Trump administration could have simply gone to court, got his withholding of removal revoked, and had him sent back. So even though they didn't do that, and therefore there's this administrative error, they should have waited to remove him. The end result would have ultimately been the same. He'd have ended up back in El Salvador.
So the Trump administration could have simply gone to court, got his withholding of removal revoked, and had him sent back. So even though they didn't do that, and therefore there's this administrative error, they should have waited to remove him. The end result would have ultimately been the same. He'd have ended up back in El Salvador.
Reason we have mass deportations is because we had a mass invasion facilitated by Joe Biden. They didn't vet every one of these migrants individually to ensure they could get into the country. On the contrary, they let them in en masse, and they did so intentionally. So you have to give the Trump administration a little grace in order to solve this problem.
Reason we have mass deportations is because we had a mass invasion facilitated by Joe Biden. They didn't vet every one of these migrants individually to ensure they could get into the country. On the contrary, they let them in en masse, and they did so intentionally. So you have to give the Trump administration a little grace in order to solve this problem.
There probably are going to be moments where they are over-inclusive. And I think it's important for us as a conservative movement to not just, you know, go hit the fainting couch the moment there's a report in The Atlantic that something went wrong.
There probably are going to be moments where they are over-inclusive. And I think it's important for us as a conservative movement to not just, you know, go hit the fainting couch the moment there's a report in The Atlantic that something went wrong.
I mean, here, you know, the Trump administration confessed error in court, like the ICE filings, clearly the filings in court clearly say, yeah, this guy did have a withholding of removal to El Salvador. He shouldn't have been removed. Our mistake. But it's important. They classified it as an administrative error rather than some profound injustice.
I mean, here, you know, the Trump administration confessed error in court, like the ICE filings, clearly the filings in court clearly say, yeah, this guy did have a withholding of removal to El Salvador. He shouldn't have been removed. Our mistake. But it's important. They classified it as an administrative error rather than some profound injustice.