A mistake played a major role in unraveling the Trump administration’s legally dubious efforts to ignore due process and send undocumented migrants to a brutal El Salvador prison. Specifically: the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Could it now be happening with another legally dubious and highly punitive Trump effort in Latin America?
We learned last week that one of the most recent Trump administration strikes on an alleged drug-carrying submarine in the Caribbean failed to kill two of the people aboard.
The situation has now cast a spotlight on the holes in the administration’s justifications for the strikes, which were already suspect. But now the dilemma over what to do with the survivors has crystallized that fact and injected the situation with new urgency.
Even some Republicans have questioned the legality of the strikes, and the events of last week could make it more di
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