The Trump administration has no interest in seeing a man returned to the United States who was illegally sent to El Salvador. The president made that very clear on Saturday… in a way that he probably thought was pretty clever.

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      Which then gets you thinking are they just killing everyone they deport.

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        Not really.

        Garcia fled from gang violence. If you put him in a cell with 99 gang members, he’s likely to meet a violent demise.

        There’s a difference between the administration actively murdering deportees, and just not caring whether they die.

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        It explains why Trump initially didn’t care (didn’t know guy was dead).

        It also aligns with Trump’s statements about Salvadore being a sovereign nation, because the angle will be that it wasn’t the Trump admin’s fault.

        They’re not going to reveal that unless / until they really have to, and it won’t be Trump that announces it obviously.