I am disappointed in how Trump deported the 200 Venezuelans on … There seem to be several legal complications, mainly whether the Trump administration violated the judge’s order not to proceed with the deportations by continuin with the deportations. These are important and should be resolved.
My personal concern is how the deportations looked. To me they looked too much like the German deportations in World War II when they put French, Dutch and other Jews on trains and shipped them to Auschwitz. Trump used planes, the images were eerily similar, the men shackled on the plane and then frog-walked into the El Salvadorian prison. If they had been returned to Venezuela, I would be less concerned, but the Salvadorian prison is notoriously violent and dangerous. The prisoners have no connection to El Salvador. It looks too much like the Germans sending Jews to Auschwitz.
Venezuela has now agreed to take its citizens back. Sending them there looks much better that sending them to a third country. The US should pull these prisoners out of El Salvador and send them home to Venezuela.