No. of Recommendations: 11
Fine. Drive his a$$ over a border or two to Guatemala or something.
But they can't. Because they didn't afford him any opportunity to point out that what the government was actually doing violated the terms of the prior rulings....which were issued because deporting him to El Salvador would have violated federal law.
So because they didn't bother to allow any process that would have caught the violation before deporting him, they now have no way of correcting it. He's out of our jurisdiction. Which, again, is why just countries don't do this.
This case should make you more worried about what's going on here, not less. Because this was the easiest mistake to avoid. The prior ruling was in his file; there's no evidence that the ruling was lost or misplaced or not recorded. Even the simplest, most cursory review of his records would have indicated that he should not have been put on that plane - but they did it anyway. The easiest mistake not to make.
So this should make you less comfortable that the government got the harder judgment calls right - that all those people who were disappeared based on eyeballing their tattoos or informants or whatever were all correctly identified. This mistake should make you worry that this operation was not overly concerned with getting the details right, but prioritized speed and numbers over being accurate. If these guys can't be trusted to get the answer right in a case where the answer is written down for them in the file, you shouldn't trust them to have gotten all their gang identifications right, either.
Which, again, is why we have the rule of law and due process - so that someone is checking their work to make sure mistakes don't happen. The fact that they made a mistake on an easier case, rather than the other types of cases that people are very worried about, shouldn't make you more comfortable. It should make you angry and upset at your government.
