If you have had the misfortune of ever reading any of the threads over there where they discuss their personal hygiene, you know their underwear has been fighting a losing battle for years. But not to be showed up by the level of stupidity on DU, J.B. Pritzker decides to join in.
struggle4progress (122,831 posts)
Illinois governor eyes retaliation against El Salvador over Abrego Garcia
Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has directed a number of state agencies to review contracts with El Salvador as well as companies with ties to the country in the wake of the mistaken deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in March. Pritzker announced on Wednesday, April 23, “a series of measures against El Salvador” over its “role in aiding the Trump administration’s defiance of court orders and violations of due process.”
https://san.com/cc/illinois-governor-eyes-retaliation-against-el-salvador-over-abrego-garcia/
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220267257It seems that bashing El Salvador is the new checkbox to be X'ed out for any Dem politician with future political ambitions. But I have to wonder when someone is going to ask these grandstanders the obvious question: "What authority does El Salvador have to just ship one of their citizens to some other nation?". The US legally deported an illegal alien back to their home country. Their home country is responsible for him now. If some other country volunteers to take him that's between El Salvador and that country. It's not any of our government's business.
I find it kind of funny how the Dems are constantly arguing against the US exerting "undue" influence in other countries affairs and how often the like to throw around the term "colonialism". But some illegal alien becomes their poster child and all of a sudden, we're supposed to destroy El Salvador politically and economically, potentially through the use of military force. And weirdly, the hill they are willing to die on is on the losing side of the immigration discussion. The majority of Americans polled want the majority of illegals deported. The results get mixed when the discussion turns to illegals who have been here a long time without any issues or who were smuggled in as children. But overall arguing for the rights of illegals is not going to win over any new voters.
And why hasn't anyone on DU mentioned the Logan Act lately? That used to be their go-to position whenever anyone outside the Biden Administration tried to influence a foreign head of state.