@davidallengreen This, from Human Rights Watch, is illuminating about the conditions in El Salvador’s prisons as testified by those who’ve experienced incarceration:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/03/13/el-salvadors-prisons-are-no-place-us-deportees

People arrested by police wait in zip tie handcuffs in the back of a truck to be transferred to a prison at the Police Delegation of San Bartolo in Soyapango, El Salvador, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022.

Human Rights Watch · Mar 13El Salvador’s prisons are no place for US deporteesEl Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to house in Salvadoran prisons U.S.-deported immigrants of any nationality — even U.S. citizens with criminal convictions. The offer is a recipe for violence and abuse that the U.S. should unequivocally reject.

**BensGreenGamingAc** @green_bens · Mar 17

Mar 17

BensGreenGamingAc @green_bens

@davidallengreen They’ve started as they mean to go on. Laws are guidelines now for the US Gov.

**Ed Davies** @edavies@functional.cafe · Mar 17

Mar 17

Ed Davies @edavies@functional.cafe

@davidallengreen Fascinating how narrowly they interpret the extra-territorial reach of US law in this case, compared to many others.

Not even to a (presumably) US-flagged aircraft on a flight originating in the US.

**Mark** @MarkAB@mastodon.world · Mar 18

Mar 18

Mark @MarkAB@mastodon.world

@edavies @davidallengreen Makes you wonder who the flight crew and the guards report to once they are in international space.

**Steven Heywood** @Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 17

Mar 17

Steven Heywood @Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk

@davidallengreen
For this cohort laws, like consequences, are for other people.

**Paul Martin** @nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk · Mar 17

Mar 17

Paul Martin @nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk

@davidallengreen@mastodon.green It is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission, especially if you don't care whether you need forgiving.

**GadgetGav** @gadgetgav@mas.to · Mar 17

Mar 17

GadgetGav @gadgetgav@mas.to

@davidallengreen And now they’re twisting logic to say “we didn’t ignore a court order and if we did ignore it, it had no legal basis”.

**Caleb James DeLisle** @cjd@pkteerium.xyz · Mar 17

Mar 17

Caleb James DeLisle @cjd@pkteerium.xyz

> Americans now thereby face a federal government practically free from constitutional checks and balances in the exercise of its brute, coercive force.

now?

Have you been sleeping for the past... umm..... 90 years?

**You Will (Not) Escape** @ubernigga@wizard.casa · Mar 17

Mar 17

You Will (Not) Escape @ubernigga@wizard.casa

@cjd @davidallengreen The Biden admin also ignored court orders. This is nothing new. The Constitution is broken, we've known this since a few decades after it was written. Desperately needs a redraft.

**of nothing** @apropos@fsebugoutzone.org · Mar 17

Mar 17

of nothing @apropos@fsebugoutzone.org

@cjd @davidallengreen I wrote this post,
>My take on the most effective Trump skepticism is generally: you're right about how bad this all is, but you're accusing the mortician of the murder.
paused on it, decided to see what's new, and it's your post.

Yeah, the constitutional crisis is
1. leftists deliberately fill the judiciary with insane ideologues
2. leftists deliberately encourage insane ideologues to jam up the Executive with lawless orders
3. insane ideologues start making obviously illegitimate orders, sometimes not even attempting to argue them or anticipate any kind of challenge
4. Executive starts ignoring these obviously bad decisions
the constitutional crisis happened several steps before #4.