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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Arrests Take Dark, Unnerving Turn, and MAGA Rage Melts Down

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4800 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

By now you may have heard that the Trump administration deported a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in “error.” The administration is refusing to bring him back, and this case has extremely dark implications. JD Vance and press secretary Karoline Leavitt both mounted defenses of this that were both weirdly angry, and quickly went off the rails. Meanwhile, MAGA-friendly media have gone into justificatory overdrive. Here’s the real story: They’re all fine with “accidental” deportations, because they want immigrants to fear they’re going to be next. We talked to veteran immigration advocate Douglas Rivlin, who explains why it’s so appalling that the administration is washing its hands of any responsibility to rectify this “error,” and why it vaults us into new frontiers of lawlessness. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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