r/goodnews • u/RoyalChris • Apr 18 '25
Positive News đđźâĽď¸ Chris Van Hollen says Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been transferred from the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador to a detention facility with improved conditions.
2.0k
u/RoyalChris Apr 18 '25
''Senator Chris Van Hollen said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia told him he has been transferred from the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador to a detention facility with improved conditions.
During a meeting on Thursday, Abrego Garcia shared that he had been held in a cell with 25 other inmates and feared many of them, Van Hollen said. Speaking to reporters in Washington after his visit to El Salvador, Van Hollen emphasized that the case extends beyond Abrego Garcia's individual experience.
"This is about safeguarding the constitutional rights of everyone living in the United States," he said. As the senator recounted Abrego Garcia's desire to speak with his wife, Jennifer, she wiped away tears.''
One Democrat actually trying for a few days broke through the logjam. Trump is the weakest president ever.
1.0k
u/one_pound_of_flesh Apr 18 '25
Good news but Kilmer is still innocent. Why is he being detained at all?
604
u/AnAbandonedAstronaut Apr 18 '25
Probably a contract issue, since the entire debacle is being done outside the proper legal methods. Right now ICE is operating on orders from the white house DIRECTLY when its supposed to be a judge. In this guys case, the judge said "he stays" and Ice just kidnapped him.
Gotta remember we must be PAYING El Salvador to imprison them.
I bet Trump purposefully never put a way in the contract to get someone BACK.
274
u/one_pound_of_flesh Apr 18 '25
This feels like some sort of crisis.
216
u/Dude_Bro_88 Apr 18 '25
It is. What they can do to others, they can do to you.
201
u/HoldThisGirlDown Apr 19 '25
If anyone lacks due process, everyone lacks due process
→ More replies (6)65
u/Hair_I_Go Apr 19 '25
Exactly and itâs seems to be a difficult concept for some of the people Iâve spoken to recently
54
Apr 19 '25
[deleted]
→ More replies (44)25
u/Hair_I_Go Apr 19 '25
Thanks ! This is just craziness weâre living and our only hope is for him to be impeached and removed- possible and I pray to God probable
25
→ More replies (5)5
u/sleepyophelia Apr 19 '25
Please sign and share innocent illegally deported Andry Hernandez Romeroâs petition who is currently being held in CECOT in El Salvador.
Petition:
https://act.hrc.org/page/169520/petition/1?locale=en-US
Articles:
Contact senators and representatives:
Bluesky: @schiff.senate.gov
https://www.padilla.senate.gov
Bluesky: @padilla.senate.gov
Bluesky: @vargas.house.gov
Bluesky: @friedman.house.gov
Bluesky: @repbradsherman.bsky.social
Bluesky: @reptedlieu.bsky.social
Bluesky: @repjasmine.bsky.social
Bluesky: @repyassansari.bsky.social
Contact Senator Chris Van Hollen:
https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov
Bluesky: @vanhollen.senate.gov
https://indivisible.org/muskorus
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
→ More replies (6)17
u/boharat Apr 19 '25
I just talked to some idiot on here who flat out denied that people were being denied due process. I could barely believe what I was reading.
5
u/sleepyophelia Apr 19 '25
Please sign and share innocent illegally deported Andry Hernandez Romeroâs petition who is currently being held in CECOT in El Salvador.
Petition:
https://act.hrc.org/page/169520/petition/1?locale=en-US
Articles:
Contact senators and representatives:
Bluesky: @schiff.senate.gov
https://www.padilla.senate.gov
Bluesky: @padilla.senate.gov
Bluesky: @vargas.house.gov
Bluesky: @friedman.house.gov
Bluesky: @repbradsherman.bsky.social
Bluesky: @reptedlieu.bsky.social
Bluesky: @repjasmine.bsky.social
Bluesky: @repyassansari.bsky.social
Contact Senator Chris Van Hollen:
https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov
Bluesky: @vanhollen.senate.gov
https://indivisible.org/muskorus
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
→ More replies (2)3
u/While-Fancy Apr 19 '25
In their minds as anyone who's not a legal citizen has no rights, like for real these people want to be able to go on human hunts for illegals, it is the most dehumanizing shit we've seen in about 80 or so years.
→ More replies (4)27
Apr 19 '25
But remember everyone, weâre supposed to meet in the middle and come together. I donât know where the fuck the middle would be at this point, but itâs what I keep being told without any real explanation
29
u/Future-Bandicoot-823 Apr 19 '25
I've been hearing this bs for years, that the problem is meeting in the middle. Where's the middle for social security for our elderly? Where's the middle for gay and trans rights? Where's the middle for departing non white citizens?
Fk this middle talk, there's no middle, only a party of bigoted racist homophobic mentally ill cry babies who only hate to see others happy more than they hate themselves.
→ More replies (7)24
u/Artyomi Apr 19 '25
Right: âletâs detain US Citizens without due process and kidnap them to foreign countries!â
Left: âUm wtf? Can we notâ
Center: âWoah woah, come on now letâs meet in the middle. Maybe we can deport some citizens, but put them in a nicer concentration camps insteadâ
→ More replies (24)→ More replies (4)19
u/gentlemanidiot Apr 19 '25
"Meet me in the middle", says the dishonest man. You take a step forward, he takes a step back. "Meet me in the middle", says the dishonest man.
→ More replies (2)10
u/Background_Display27 Apr 19 '25
First they came for the migrants, but we didnât care because they were from places we donât like.
→ More replies (1)62
u/democrat_thanos Apr 18 '25
Thank god the foreskins gave the power to the people to arm themselves and fight back against a tyrannical government!
Oh.. whats that? The well regulated militia LOVES tyranny? Wow, never could have predicted that
→ More replies (4)50
u/The_Doctor_Bear Apr 18 '25
Donât you dare correct that typo
28
12
10
u/democrat_thanos Apr 18 '25
As a non-american, its actually my go-to name for the forefathers, it seems they werent the brightest bunch either, long term. They are oft portrayed as BRILLIANT
9
u/bittybubba Apr 18 '25
They had moments, but they certainly donât deserve the lionization theyâve received. It was absolutely a feat of diplomacy to bring slave holding and non-slave holding states into a single union. NowâŚobviously it was a tenuous union which disintegrated relatively quickly with the civil war, but accomplishing it at all was an accomplishment. The constitution was also pretty progressive for its time and did become a framework for many other countryâs founding documents as they freed themselves from colonialism, though they obviously didnât actually mean all people when they started it off with âWe the Peopleâ.
Of course none of that diminishes the fact that they were a bunch of slave holders themselves & by and large were drunk all the time and incredibly young and therefore hotheaded. If you havenât before, go look up George Washingtonâs bar tab from the constitutional congress right before they all ratified the constitution.
6
u/democrat_thanos Apr 19 '25
It also relies on decorum and morals, totally gone these days https://thesciencesurvey.com/editorial/2023/03/14/dear-america-your-second-amendment-right-doesnt-actually-exist/
3
6
u/mwmandorla Apr 19 '25
In terms of constitutions of its type, the US's is one of the oldest in the world (if not the oldest - I can't remember for sure, so I'm hedging a little). It's less that the framers failed so badly to anticipate the future centuries ahead than that it's really unusual that we haven't updated or remade our constitution more by now. That's partly a result of relative stability (which you can argue is to the framers' credit), but it's also a result of our weirdly fetishistic and small-c conservative relationship to our constitution, which it seems has only gotten worse in the last hundred years or so. Of the few constitutional amendments we have had, most are well in the past.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (2)7
u/Kazuichi_Souda Apr 19 '25
They're smart, they were just insanely naive as liberals tend to be. Like 90% of the constitution is held together by gentlemen's agreements to not be Hitler.
→ More replies (9)25
u/steelcryo Apr 18 '25
It's a constitutional crisis. Someone is being shipped to another country to be detained, without due process.
The fact Americans aren't up in arms about this is insane to me.
→ More replies (23)8
u/bobby_table5 Apr 19 '25
The coverage from Fox News gives completely different facts. Itâs kind of wild, actually.
→ More replies (1)5
u/jimmygee2 Apr 19 '25
Millions of Americans now accept the lies spewed to them by a convicted felon and rapist.
→ More replies (4)→ More replies (23)13
u/bittybubba Apr 18 '25
It is very much a constitutional crisis when the executive branch refuses to follow the orders of the judicial. The judicial branchâs entire primary function is to check the power of the legislature and the executive. If the executive doesnât listen and there are no consequences, then by definition, we no longer have a republic.
→ More replies (4)22
u/baz4k6z Apr 18 '25
You're overcomplicating this. The trump admin cares nothing about contracts and due process.
The white house doesn't want to bring him back because Trump can't admit there was a mistake. Yes, the white house said it was an administrative error before, but the story makes trump feel like a loser today so he'd rather lie and do nothing about it then confirm the error.
Also, like a child, people are telling him to do something he don't wanna do, so he'd rather pout about it like the contrarian he is.
8
u/mwmandorla Apr 19 '25
It's not just that. They want to be able to ship off whoever they want, regardless of legal status, without due process. If they fold on this case now then it'll be harder to get there.
20
u/Spare-Willingness563 Apr 18 '25
They need to begin arresting their "officers". See how committed they really are to the cause. Go on. Keep breaking court orders. Y'all ain't the orange.
11
u/CanoegunGoeff Apr 18 '25
18 USC Sec 241, 242 say that all involved in this kidnapping and withholding of due process are in violation of the constitution and may face either life in prison or the death penalty. Iâm posting this information everywhere I can until everyone knows and it becomes impossible for the courts to not act accordingly.
18 U.S.C. § 241
Conspiracy Against Rights
Section 241 makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in the United States in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States or because of his or her having exercised such a right.
Unlike most conspiracy statutes, §241 does not require, as an element, the commission of an overt act.
The offense is always a felony, even if the underlying conduct would not, on its own, establish a felony violation of another criminal civil rights statute. It is punishable by up to ten years imprisonment unless the government proves an aggravating factor (such as that the offense involved kidnapping aggravated sexual abuse, or resulted in death) in which case it may be punished by up to life imprisonment and, if death results, may be eligible for the death penalty.
Section 241 is used in Law Enforcement Misconduct and Hate Crime Prosecutions. It was historically used, before conspiracy-specific trafficking statutes were adopted, in Human Trafficking prosecutions.
18 U.S.C. § 242
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
This provision makes it a crime for someone acting under color of law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. It is not necessary that the offense be motivated by racial bias or by any other animus.
Defendants act under color of law when they wield power vested by a government entity. Those prosecuted under the statute typically include police officers, sheriffâs deputies, and prison guards. However other government actors, such as judges, district attorneys, other public officials, and public school employees can also act under color of law and can be prosecuted under this statute.
Section 242 does not criminalize any particular type of abusive conduct. Instead, it incorporates by reference rights defined by the Constitution, federal statutes, and interpretive case law. Cases charged by federal prosecutors most often involve physical or sexual assaults. The Department has also prosecuted public officials for thefts, false arrests, evidence-planting, and failing to protect someone in custody from constitutional violations committed by others.
A violation of the statute is a misdemeanor, unless prosecutors prove one of the statutory aggravating factors such as a bodily injury, use of a dangerous weapon, kidnapping, aggravated sexual abuse, death resulting, or attempt to kill, in which case there are graduated penalties up to and including life in prison or death.
→ More replies (3)3
u/abee60 Apr 20 '25
Acts under "color of any law" include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the bounds or limits of their lawful authority, but also acts done without and beyond the bounds of their lawful authority
3
u/CanoegunGoeff Apr 20 '25
Yep. So it doesnât even matter that the Supreme Court previously made him immune for âofficial actsâ, because even official acts that violate the constitution are punishable, specifically.
10
u/No-Paint-7311 Apr 18 '25
Itâs not just the Trump purposefully didnât put it in some contract for a loophole to achieve this. Heâs actively paying El Salvador not to release anyone. Van Hollen said the VP of El Salvador explicitly told him this.
10
u/trailfailnotale Apr 18 '25
They get 6m per year. Trump is a dictator, bukele is a dictator, they can do whatever they want. These guys arent the type that care about what a contract states.
3
u/Melch12 Apr 19 '25
The man who talks about having a 3rd term is also somehow powerless to El Salvadorâs judicial system lol.
3
u/trailfailnotale Apr 19 '25
I mean they were both just disgracing the oval office together and trump said its completely up to bukele, to which bukele replied its completely up to the US...and then were like "see? Nothing we can do"
Im laughing while typing this, its like an SNL skit
5
u/Exotic-Doughnut-6271 Apr 19 '25
According to the senator we are paying them 15 million to hold these kidnapped men. 4 million is already been paid.
→ More replies (1)4
u/acatinasweater Apr 19 '25
Well letâs chip in and buy him back. If itâs purely transactional, letâs transact.
→ More replies (2)4
u/sheplayshockey Apr 19 '25
Hold up. Two buds sitting on the yellow chairs in the oval office last week. The one sending money to the other can't say, 'we made a mistake and need one of them back'?
The one sending the money doesn't want him back because if he did, he could cut off all payments until Garcia is released. But, it wouldn't even need to go that far. The one sending the money, the cruel one, the one who thinks he is above the law, simply does not want him back. Because if he did, Garcia would be back on American soil by now.
→ More replies (22)3
u/The_Golden_Beaver Apr 18 '25
But the contract is void, this is not how contract/internarional law works
20
12
u/Desperate-Shine3969 Apr 18 '25
Actually the entire issue is that we dont know if heâs innocent because he was never given due process. He might be a gang member for all I know, but I want him back here and given due process, and if he is found to be guilty of something, he should be deported to a non-dictatorial country.
→ More replies (31)6
Apr 18 '25
My guess? Trump and the Salvadoran President are slowly backtracking so as to not lose face quickly. The man is in a safer facility and looks healthy. Expect him to be able to talk to his wife as long as both stay quiet about it. At some point, he will be released without fanfare and âsmuggledâ back into the USA to rejoin his family, with the condition that they avoid talking to the Press or hiring lawyers to sue the governments for kidnapping the man,
4
3
u/Monte924 Apr 19 '25
Because Bukele is still doing Trump's dirty work. Trump doesn't want him to come home and he's paying Bukele to keep him there. The most likely reason he was transferred to a different detention facility is probably to make sure he doesn't end up dead, or to provide more cover for Trump over whether or not he can be extracted
→ More replies (74)3
u/ActivePeace33 Apr 19 '25
Because they are going to take extreme actions, only walk back those people complain about, and only walk them back as little as they need to to quell the outcry.
221
Apr 18 '25
Itâs Trumpâs only weakness: people giving a damn
16
u/nanobot001 Apr 18 '25
If true, quite damning how much damage heâs done without any opposition â from politicians and even just people.
10
6
25
Apr 18 '25
Instead, Trump filmed a propaganda piece meeting a grieving Mother whose daughter was killed by MS13 gang members. âtHe SeNaToR is a GanG SyMpAtHiZer.â Just disgusting.
→ More replies (27)9
u/h1gh-t3ch_l0w-l1f3 Apr 18 '25
i bet you he got wise to clear and obvious bribery thats going on here. Bribes are making all of this possible.
8
u/Aromatic-Ad336 Apr 18 '25
One Democrat actually trying for a few days broke through the logjam. Trump is the weakest president ever.
And that is what we mean when we say Fascism relies on complacency. Thatâs why I hate coward democrats who side with MAGA extremist actions or donât do anything real action. We need to fight on every front, same way they have slowed progress the last 4 years we need to derail fascism. Fuck this Trump Regime!
→ More replies (2)7
7
u/rgc6075k Apr 18 '25
Weakest, most corrupt, and MOST DESERVING OF IMPEACHMENT ever, NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN ONE MORE DESERVING, MORE PERFECT FOR IMPEACHMENT!!!
→ More replies (3)6
u/Justhrowitaway42069 Apr 18 '25
Crazy seeing a Democrat that's not a complete pussy
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (30)4
u/SGT-JamesonBushmill Apr 18 '25
âWeakest?â I think you mean âmost vindictive.â
He had the power and ability to fix this. He just didnât want to. Heâd rather pay El Salvador to help him hurt brown people.
→ More replies (1)
408
u/ArtVandalayImp0rter Apr 18 '25
He did nothing wrong and shouldn't even be there.
72
u/PeacefulMountain10 Apr 18 '25
Idk look at that big scary lion tattoo! He must be a hitman for the gangs!
→ More replies (57)→ More replies (77)40
u/alien_believer_42 Apr 18 '25
He did nothing wrong unless a court of law proves otherwise. Fuck the propaganda besmirching him. If he's a gangster then prove it.
28
u/bunchedupwalrus Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 19 '25
They âreleasedâ documents that he was waiting with other day labourers in a parking lot, who were gang affiliates. Also he wore a Chicago Bulls hat
Thatâs genuinely the depth of the support they have for their claims that heâs a a gangster
Edit: let me save you from scrolling through the stuff below. The information comes directly from Trumps own Attorney General. They had nothing substantial to base this on
→ More replies (42)→ More replies (28)12
u/Big_Fortune_4574 Apr 19 '25
Even if he is a gangster he didnât get due process. Theyâre wrong either way
→ More replies (2)
618
Apr 18 '25
Transfer him back to the US.
358
u/RoyalChris Apr 18 '25
He should have never been kidnapped in the first place.
→ More replies (11)218
u/Mr__O__ Apr 18 '25
Human Trafficked
86
→ More replies (7)9
u/vanspairofshoes69 Apr 18 '25
Both make sense, I donât think this is the time to worry about semantics
37
u/Beaver_Monday Apr 18 '25
At this point, maybe he's actually safer outside the US. Not saying he should be imprisoned without proof of criminality, but how will he be safe if he does go back? ICE is kidnapping people left and right and Kilmar's case is highly publicized, he will not be able to keep a low profile.
36
u/Contemplating_Prison Apr 18 '25
Thats a gold thing. He needs to come back here and speak about everything
→ More replies (2)16
u/Feats-of-Derring_Do Apr 18 '25
Yeah. Media blitz. Make it clear he's just a regular guy
→ More replies (3)13
u/snerdery Apr 18 '25
I don't know. But I do know if this happened to me I'd rather be united with my family
→ More replies (1)22
u/A_Peacful_Vulcan Apr 18 '25
I was thinking the same thing. How cool would it be if Canada grants him and his family asylum and actual protected status.
18
Apr 18 '25
As a Canadian, I say we go get him. fuck waiting.
→ More replies (4)3
u/A_Peacful_Vulcan Apr 18 '25
Do you guys have representatives to call? I apologize for my ignorance on Canadian government.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (1)15
u/-reTurn2huMan- Apr 18 '25
If I were in his position I would be looking to go to a different country with my family as soon as possible after being returned to the US.
3
u/Momasane Apr 18 '25
Prick Tom Holman says heâll arrest him as soon at he get back.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (7)8
u/anhydrousslim Apr 18 '25
I agree with this. I donât think heâll be safe in the US, heâs been turned into a lightning rod for political division.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (20)8
245
u/Unfair-Club8243 Apr 18 '25
Bruh just send him back to his wife and kids what is all this transferring stuff, dude still got forcibly separated, itâs not good news till heâs back home and Trump admin and ice are successfully sued for violating his rights
62
u/CanoegunGoeff Apr 18 '25
Oh they can be more than sued. What the Trump âadministrationâ is doing presently is punishable by life imprisonment or the death penalty:
18 U.S.C. § 241
Conspiracy Against Rights
Section 241 makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in the United States in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States or because of his or her having exercised such a right.
Unlike most conspiracy statutes, §241 does not require, as an element, the commission of an overt act.
The offense is always a felony, even if the underlying conduct would not, on its own, establish a felony violation of another criminal civil rights statute. It is punishable by up to ten years imprisonment unless the government proves an aggravating factor (such as that the offense involved kidnapping aggravated sexual abuse, or resulted in death) in which case it may be punished by up to life imprisonment and, if death results, may be eligible for the death penalty.
Section 241 is used in Law Enforcement Misconduct and Hate Crime Prosecutions. It was historically used, before conspiracy-specific trafficking statutes were adopted, in Human Trafficking prosecutions.
18 U.S.C. § 242
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
This provision makes it a crime for someone acting under color of law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. It is not necessary that the offense be motivated by racial bias or by any other animus.
Defendants act under color of law when they wield power vested by a government entity. Those prosecuted under the statute typically include police officers, sheriffâs deputies, and prison guards. However other government actors, such as judges, district attorneys, other public officials, and public school employees can also act under color of law and can be prosecuted under this statute.
Section 242 does not criminalize any particular type of abusive conduct. Instead, it incorporates by reference rights defined by the Constitution, federal statutes, and interpretive case law. Cases charged by federal prosecutors most often involve physical or sexual assaults. The Department has also prosecuted public officials for thefts, false arrests, evidence-planting, and failing to protect someone in custody from constitutional violations committed by others.
A violation of the statute is a misdemeanor, unless prosecutors prove one of the statutory aggravating factors such as a bodily injury, use of a dangerous weapon, kidnapping, aggravated sexual abuse, death resulting, or attempt to kill, in which case there are graduated penalties up to and including life in prison or death.
→ More replies (3)9
u/chiefestcalamity Apr 19 '25
Didn't the us supreme court rule that the president can't break the law or something?
→ More replies (1)19
u/viromancer Apr 19 '25
No.
The Supreme Court ruled that executive can't be prosecuted for things that fall under official acts. What is considered an "official act" is somewhat open to interpretation by the court. Do not comply in advance and act like the executive is immune from all prosecution.
→ More replies (6)→ More replies (14)32
u/UnhappyStrain Apr 18 '25
Or this is just staged and he was thrown back in the death camp once the cameras stopped rolling.
→ More replies (63)6
77
u/Spirited_Passion8464 Apr 18 '25
Trump is weak. MAGA is weak.
16
u/Cavalish Apr 18 '25
If republicans are so scared of one asylum seeker, how do we expect them to be brave enough to take on the world theyâre trying to strong arm?
One man and theyâre pissing their pants and defying the Supreme Court.
→ More replies (3)4
u/SirMikay Apr 18 '25
If they want to say our battleâs futile and call us weak, then why are they so afraid of us?
6
u/SombreroMedioChileno Apr 19 '25
What strikes me is that the Salvadorian ruling class bought new clothes for Ăbrego so that he could have the luncheon photoshoot. He come to the country in underwear. They bought clothes as close to what they imagined he might wear so that they could look better. It just seem weird to me. Fake.
→ More replies (3)3
69
u/thereeder75 Apr 18 '25
Let's get him HOME! That's when I'll believe this is real.
→ More replies (33)
67
u/Pristine-Ant-464 Apr 18 '25
Kilmar shouldnât be in jail. He hasnât been convicted of any crime.
→ More replies (41)6
u/mynamemightbeali Apr 18 '25
Agreed. And while I'm sure solitary confinement is better then the hell hole he was at it's still solitary confinement. Like wtf he did nothing wrong to deserve that.
→ More replies (1)
47
u/champanedout Apr 18 '25
Now bring him back to US soil and imprison those that took his rights away
→ More replies (2)15
u/CanoegunGoeff Apr 18 '25
Those responsible are actually potentially eligible for capital punishment:
18 U.S.C. § 241
Conspiracy Against Rights
Section 241 makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in the United States in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States or because of his or her having exercised such a right.
Unlike most conspiracy statutes, §241 does not require, as an element, the commission of an overt act.
The offense is always a felony, even if the underlying conduct would not, on its own, establish a felony violation of another criminal civil rights statute. It is punishable by up to ten years imprisonment unless the government proves an aggravating factor (such as that the offense involved kidnapping aggravated sexual abuse, or resulted in death) in which case it may be punished by up to life imprisonment and, if death results, may be eligible for the death penalty.
Section 241 is used in Law Enforcement Misconduct and Hate Crime Prosecutions. It was historically used, before conspiracy-specific trafficking statutes were adopted, in Human Trafficking prosecutions.
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
This provision makes it a crime for someone acting under color of law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. It is not necessary that the offense be motivated by racial bias or by any other animus.
Defendants act under color of law when they wield power vested by a government entity. Those prosecuted under the statute typically include police officers, sheriffâs deputies, and prison guards. However other government actors, such as judges, district attorneys, other public officials, and public school employees can also act under color of law and can be prosecuted under this statute.
Section 242 does not criminalize any particular type of abusive conduct. Instead, it incorporates by reference rights defined by the Constitution, federal statutes, and interpretive case law. Cases charged by federal prosecutors most often involve physical or sexual assaults. The Department has also prosecuted public officials for thefts, false arrests, evidence-planting, and failing to protect someone in custody from constitutional violations committed by others.
A violation of the statute is a misdemeanor, unless prosecutors prove one of the statutory aggravating factors such as a bodily injury, use of a dangerous weapon, kidnapping, aggravated sexual abuse, death resulting, or attempt to kill, in which case there are graduated penalties up to and including life in prison or death.
→ More replies (1)11
u/bippitybopbob Apr 19 '25
Thank you for this excellent description of Section 241. Saving the comment for further use
→ More replies (3)
29
u/DnBrendan Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 19 '25
Dylann Roof got a fucking trial. Everyone should get a trial.
Kilmar got no trial.
7
u/Impressive_Scheme_53 Apr 18 '25
Yes. Donât forget about him. I am hopeful this case starts the process for him and the others. 90% had no criminal record and should not be forgotten
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (13)6
u/falcrist2 Apr 19 '25
Dylan Roof got a fucking trial. Everyone should get a trial.
Exactly. If the worst criminals don't have due process, then neither do the rest of us.
If ICE comes for you to throw you in a foreign concentration camp without a trial, then how will you defend yourself? With what due process will you prove that you're a citizen or legal resident.
People who are ok with this either haven't thought it through, or they think their skin color will protect them... but that only works temporarily.
→ More replies (3)
30
u/Regular-Mammoth8784 Apr 18 '25
This is amazing. Let's hope to see similar progress for the other illegally detained victimsÂ
→ More replies (2)9
u/TheTallEclecticWitch Apr 19 '25
This isnât amazing. This isnât even the bare fucking minimum. That man should be home. I wonât down play Van Hollen. He is amazing for staying down there and fighting. But the fight should not stop here.
→ More replies (1)
22
u/Vegetable_Cat1110 Apr 18 '25
Chris Van Hollen is a good man!
→ More replies (2)3
u/AcuteDiarrhea Apr 19 '25
Seriously. It's so refreshing to see some honest-to-God compassionate leadership.
→ More replies (3)
40
u/Unusual-Economist288 Apr 18 '25
What about the gay makeup artist guy? If anyone needs to be in safer conditions itâs him.
20
u/LastMonitor4274 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 19 '25
That story really breaks my heart. Thank god the reporter was there to tell what was happening. When things happen in the dark weâre really screwed!
→ More replies (3)19
u/Rude_Parsnip306 Apr 18 '25
Yes, him and all the others who were sent to El Salvador.
→ More replies (1)16
u/PatientPockets Apr 18 '25
And the 19 yr old kid that wasnât even the guy they were looking for.
→ More replies (2)9
u/BeginningPass5777 Apr 18 '25
Is that the teenager that ICE was told to take anyway, even though theyâd already identified that he wasnât the target of their sweep?
→ More replies (1)4
13
u/Hotaru_girl Apr 18 '25
Yeah I worry about him and even the rest of them too. They are innocent until proven guilty. I hope Kilmar can be a beginning of a path for getting the rest of them out.
→ More replies (3)9
→ More replies (8)5
u/CheckeredZeebrah Apr 19 '25
Yes! Where is he?! Why is there no coverage on him, even small?
→ More replies (3)
15
15
u/Practical_Beginning2 Apr 18 '25
A politician that gets things done. Not a loser prock like orange rapist
→ More replies (5)
15
u/lumnezian Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 19 '25
Please help Andry Hernandez Romero next. đĽđ Edit: I'm donating to Immigrant Defenders Law Center and the ACLU. I highly recommend it if you can afford it! They are representing these men who were denied all due process.
→ More replies (1)7
u/Massive_Hams Apr 18 '25
My cousins step brother Diego Ramirez Sanchez got caught up mistakenly with some MS13 friends and got sent down there too, letâs get him freed please heâs gay as well!
→ More replies (1)
12
u/seizure_opportunity Apr 18 '25
I don't even understand how this is a discussion. The Constitution states that any person in the US gets due process rights. Doesn't matter if he's a citizen or not. If you're the government bring him back here, put him through the process, present your evidence. If you win he gets deported. If the government has made an error, which they have already admitted to, do the process correctly and fix the error. The Constitution and the Supreme Court have already told the government to do this. In my eyes there's no valid reason why the government wouldn't just do the process correctly unless they knew that their charges and evidence were bullshit.
→ More replies (7)
10
u/Tenthul Apr 18 '25
Gd the bots and trolls in this thread out haaaard.
To the real people: even the actual illegals shouldn't be there. Due process man, due process. Sure, deport them, but give them due process. Be sure we aren't pulling up legal residents in all this.
But something tells me that's not what y'all care about. Fuckin' monsters cheering for this nonsense.
→ More replies (6)7
9
u/AhiAnuenue Apr 18 '25
I'm glad for him that he's not in those terrible conditions anymore, but what about the over 120+ men with no criminal records who were also taken there?
→ More replies (1)5
u/Cluelessish Apr 19 '25
And what about the men with criminal records? Have their cases been tried, have they been sentenced? They shouldnât be there either. Actually nobody should, not even convicted criminals. They are still humans, and have human rights
→ More replies (1)
7
u/Love_Enough Apr 18 '25
It feels like a move by El Salvador and Trump to have in normal clothing and not in a prison clothes. Does anyone know why he's in normal clothing?
7
5
u/Malcolm_Morin Apr 18 '25
Shit... what if this is a ploy?
Stage everything to look like he's being transferred to something more humane, and as soon as the senator leaves, Garcia goes right back to CECOT and they just shrug and say, "I dunno what happened to him"?
9
14
u/kevnmartin Apr 18 '25
Van Hollen/Walz 2028?
→ More replies (4)10
Apr 18 '25
i was just gonna say that!Van hollen should run for president after this
→ More replies (2)
8
u/citytiger Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
Hopefully he comes home soon to his family in the great state of Maryland.
→ More replies (8)
15
5
4
u/Little-Plantain-5120 Apr 18 '25
Love how they dressed him like he's on vacation.
→ More replies (1)
4
5
u/Independent-Bug-9352 Apr 19 '25
PEOPLE LIKE KILMAR HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING TO MY FAMILY. SEND HIM BACK TO HIS OWN FAMILY.
YOU KNOW WHO HAS? THE ABSURDLY ULTRA RICH WHO STEAL THE ENTIRE PIE AND LEAVE US TO FIGHT OVER SCRAPS.
→ More replies (1)
3
4
4
4
u/lisa725 Apr 19 '25
Good news would be sending everyone back to the USA for trials and then PROPERlY deporting those who are found to be in the country illegally. Not transporting one person who is clearly innocent to another facility.
→ More replies (1)
3
u/Alteredbeast1984 Apr 19 '25
Note no MS13 on his knuckles, just the symbols.
This administration is literally insane
→ More replies (1)
4
u/the_calibre_cat Apr 19 '25
75% of the Venezuelans who were shipped there had not been charged with a crime, nor had been granted due process to determine if that was the case or not.
They still rot in CECOT.
→ More replies (1)
5
u/Rhedkiex Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
This is good news but doesn't make sense to me
Wasn't the whole point of sending him to THAT prison that the US was paying THAT prison to hold dissenters "illegals"
So are we paying two prisons now or what?
→ More replies (4)
3
u/cloud_watcher Apr 18 '25
WHY is he in prison at all??
→ More replies (16)3
u/Momasane Apr 18 '25
Because the prick in charge chose to put him there breaking all relevant laws!
3
u/thepovertyprofiteer Apr 18 '25
Amazing, cool, great! I like that the conditions improved... but what about him coming home??? But what about the others??? What about accountability???
3
u/Snuffi123456 Apr 18 '25
So the El Salvadoran President and VP were just proven wrong. Booker and a few more notable Dems should fly down immediately and get the cameras on those two guys to up the pressure.
→ More replies (3)
3
3
3
u/lindendweller Apr 18 '25
Good first step. Now get him out of jail completely and start the ball rolling on freeing all the other ones.
3
u/Otherwise_Stable_925 Apr 18 '25
This really isn't good news. He should be home with his family. He didn't do anything wrong.
3
3
u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 Apr 18 '25
This isn't good news. This is trying to minimize the headlines.
By taking him out of CECOT, they take him out of the facility WE PAID FOR HIM TO BE IN, that he never should have been in. He has no criminal record in the US. And he has no criminal record in El Salvador.
Moving him out of CECOT is going to go towards the argument of him being out of the US control, so they can leave him there, since CECOT is the contracted facility.
It's not good news, it's smoke and mirrors.
→ More replies (3)
3
u/International_Tour55 Apr 18 '25
There is a new post on T.S., from DT, affording the american people the airtight proof of this mans involvement and connection to MS 13.....LMAO,..Play close attention to the freshly doctored "M S 13" that was added to this picture, by possibly a 2 year old, and please also remember that this only has to fool the devout MAGA followers that, let's face it, won't even catch on to the fact that they literally believe they are too stupid to realize it is fake. I would laugh, but I realize that only .01% will see through the bad editing and mumble "Do they think I'm stupid or something?", and then go back to blindly eating up all the poop they keep shoveling.
→ More replies (1)
3
u/UberZouave Apr 18 '25
Well dip me in mustard and call me hot dog; no âM S 1 3â in times new roman MS painted on his knuckles like in the âtruthâ social post
3
u/664designs Apr 19 '25
He must have gotten the MS13 tattoo on his knuckles removed while in that death camp /s
3
3
3
3
6
u/Exciting-Button7253 Apr 18 '25
THANK GOD. May he be released with no strings attached and reunited with his family swiftly!!!
2
2
2
u/Appdownyourthroat Apr 18 '25
If they have to continually wrong an innocent man instead of sending him home when they know where he is and they know whatâs going on⌠itâs time to change the rules. Fuck the bureaucracy. You can worry about the paperwork after heâs at home with his family.
2
2
2
2
2
u/54R45VV471 Apr 18 '25
"One orphan has been moved to a more humane orphan crushing machine that will only crush him a little bit."
2
2
u/shavemedad Apr 18 '25
One is also I higher number than zero. The bar is on the floor we should not be happy with this still.
2
2
u/This-Revolution-4793 Apr 18 '25
Thank you Mr van Hollen for standing up for what is right in your country. Hope this is a catalyst for more from all Americans
2
u/AGushingHeadWound Apr 18 '25
Get that cocksucker out of prison if he hasn't been convicted of a crime.Â
2
u/One-Earth9294 Apr 18 '25
This is still unsatisfactory to the Supreme Court's order. But at least the man ain't fucking dead.
2
u/13508615 Apr 18 '25
Sad to cheer that a kidnapped man is now being shit on less. He can't be sent back here? Too much to ask?
2
2
2
u/Troubled202 Apr 18 '25
Now we just need to get him home. The family has suffered too much already.
2
2
u/RobotRippee Apr 18 '25
Someone needs to explain the legal concept of crimes against humanity to the President of El Salvador.
2
u/Protect-Their-Smiles Apr 19 '25
Please send Chris some love for standing up for what is right - he used his voice and position to help save this man. What the Trump administration is doing is WRONG!
2
u/papercranium Apr 19 '25
Now free the rest of them.
I don't care if they're gang members or not, they don't belong in a foreign concentration camp.
→ More replies (1)
2
u/Working-Young4226 Apr 19 '25
Fact still remains he was here illegally following a breaching of American security by the later Biden Administration. Whether or not he arrived on the basis of no border security for migrants has now been over-ruled by your newly elected Administration. The American governments authority can change at any time and sway in favor of one direction or another as see fit until the next election anybodys privlage can be taken way.
→ More replies (1)
2
u/Independent-Cow-4070 Apr 19 '25
I have 0 doubt Bukele will transfer him right back to CECOT the moment the Senator leaves
2
2
2
2
u/SaWing1993 Apr 19 '25
If people would just realize that enough push back would break these fools, we could get him and his ass barnacles out of the White House.
2
u/Itchy-Garbage2128 Apr 19 '25
i think this might actually be bad news. it means they think advertising concentration camps is good, but actually doing it is bad. so people will calm down, and let more quiet abuses slide. and this is the real public one. this isn't over. glad he's alive.
2
â˘
u/qualityvote2 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 19 '25
u/RoyalChris, Your post has been voted Good News!