Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen revealed that Kilmar Ábrego García had been moved from El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison – where he was sharing a cell with 25 other inmates – to a detention center with better conditions.

Van Hollen met with Ábrego García, whom the Trump administration admits it mistakenly deported, and said that he had been left “traumatized” after facing threats in the Cecot facility.

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    what about everyone else?

    did the press focus on one person in order to distract from the rest?

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      It’s hard to overstate how much more impactful a single story can be to public opinion. If the media were to just start running story after story of immigrants being deported, the message would absolutely get muddied. By keeping the focus on this one case, this case maintains political momentum.

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        You guys are so media savvy, I want you in charge of the future Progressive party’s messaging.

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    to a detention center with better conditions.

    fuck you Chris Van Hollen

    Democrat puppets less than quartering ass something and bragging like they done something just to keep up the two-party sham

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      “Both sides-ism” gave us Trump. I’m an Independent, but MAGA/Republicans are destroying public services, firing government workers, disappearing legal residents off the street, starting a trade war with the world, turning all of our allies against us, firebombing all our 401k’s, are now targeting American Citizens… and you’re blaming Democrats!? Specifically the one who went to the gulag the dude was illegally deported to to try to get him out?? Are you on bath salts!?

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        this is why United States are crumbling

        citizens are brainwashed with propaganda from both sides enough that people truly believe their perceived party of choice will save us all and all negative bullshit is their fellow citizens’ fault instead