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Walleye

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1. They really have muddled thinking. MS 13 is not an existential threat to the United States.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Apr 12, 2025, 01:43 PM

Apr 2025

I mean it’s not like they stormed to the Capitol or anything and tried to overturn a presidential election. They are guilty mainly of street crime as far as I can tell. We have jails and prisons and courts for that right here in this country we don’t have to prove to the rest world that we are as cruel as assholes as the worst

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DOJ Said Arrested Salvadoran Was The MS-13 Leader For The East Coast; Days Later It's Dropping Its Case [View all] Judi Lynn Apr 2025 OP

They really have muddled thinking. MS 13 is not an existential threat to the United States. Walleye Apr 2025 #1

And this is why the Supreme Court stated that you have to go through due process in this country Baitball Blogger Apr 2025 #2

They're dropping the case orangecrush Apr 2025 #3

I think you're exactly right n/t radical noodle Apr 2025 #4

This is basically human trafficking. It is barbaric. Dark n Stormy Knight Apr 2025 #6

It's ideology and/or idolatry with these appointees, but never competency. surfered Apr 2025 #5