Bukele, the President of El Salvador, has indefinitely jailed without trial 8% of the young male population. He promised that he would give everyone a trial, but that was over a year ago, and still no one has gotten a trial.
Several thousand of them had more than enough evidence, so the question became why no trial. These were the obvious criminals, who had more than enough evidence against them. But at least they are being held in prison... or are they?
Elmer Canales Rivera, who was supposedly being held in El Salvador, was caught free as a bird in Mexico. That got American law enforcement thinking that the real criminals supposedly in El Salvadoran prisons might be free, or still running their criminal enterprises from prison. As it turns out, Bukele made an agreement with the gangs to just deal drugs to the USA, and to have hidden, non-public murders. This did reduce the street crime in El Salvador, but also increased the drugs coming into the USA.
So US law enforcement was beginning to get a grip on this, when trump was elected. Now that investigation has been completely shutdown. All criminals held in the USA will be freed to El Salvador. Supposedly El Salvador will hold them in prison, but El Salvador already promised they were in prison. So far 23 El Salvadoran drug smugglers have been released, and several dozen witnesses against the drug dealers have been deported to death squads.
Now we are hearing about over a hundred family of Mexican gang members, and even Mexican gang members, being allowed entry into the USA to help them do business. And no search days at border crossings being announced ahead of time.
This is a bad situation getting worse.
Several thousand of them had more than enough evidence, so the question became why no trial. These were the obvious criminals, who had more than enough evidence against them. But at least they are being held in prison... or are they?
Elmer Canales Rivera, who was supposedly being held in El Salvador, was caught free as a bird in Mexico. That got American law enforcement thinking that the real criminals supposedly in El Salvadoran prisons might be free, or still running their criminal enterprises from prison. As it turns out, Bukele made an agreement with the gangs to just deal drugs to the USA, and to have hidden, non-public murders. This did reduce the street crime in El Salvador, but also increased the drugs coming into the USA.
So US law enforcement was beginning to get a grip on this, when trump was elected. Now that investigation has been completely shutdown. All criminals held in the USA will be freed to El Salvador. Supposedly El Salvador will hold them in prison, but El Salvador already promised they were in prison. So far 23 El Salvadoran drug smugglers have been released, and several dozen witnesses against the drug dealers have been deported to death squads.
Now we are hearing about over a hundred family of Mexican gang members, and even Mexican gang members, being allowed entry into the USA to help them do business. And no search days at border crossings being announced ahead of time.
This is a bad situation getting worse.