Trump’s Arrests Take Dark, Unnerving Turn, and MAGA Rage Melts Down
THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
The New Republic
4.4 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:31.5 | I'm your host, Greg Sargent. By now you may have heard that the Trump administration deported a Salvadoran man in error. |
| 0:47.7 | The administration is refusing to bring him back, and this particular case has extremely |
| 0:52.5 | dark implications that are going to continue |
| 0:55.1 | reverberating. J.D. Vance addressed this on Twitter, and he face-planted in a spectacular way that |
| 1:02.2 | would have been funny if it weren't so repulsive. He claimed that the man was a convicted MS-13 member, |
| 1:09.0 | even though that's a severe distortion. And the broader story here is that |
| 1:13.5 | Vance and Trump are perfectly fine with, quote, unquote, accidentally removing people, |
| 1:19.2 | because they want immigrants to be afraid that they're going to be next. Today we're talking about |
| 1:25.3 | this with one of our favorite observers of immigration issues, |
| 1:28.7 | longtime veteran advocate, Douglas Rivlin. |
| 1:32.2 | Doug, it's great to have you on again, man. |
| 1:35.1 | Hey, Greg, good to see you. |
| 1:36.4 | So the deported man, Kilmar Abrago Garcia, is a Salvadoran who was removed to El Salvador along with dozens of others. |
| 1:46.2 | He was sent to that prison for terrorists that was all over the news recently. He's the father of an autistic child who lives in Maryland and his |
| 1:52.0 | wife is a U.S. citizen. The government had tried to remove him to El Salvador in 2019, but he was actually |
| 1:58.3 | granted a form of status called withholding from removal based on the |
| 2:03.0 | fact that he'd face serious harm if you were sent back. Doug, can you give us the rundown here? |
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