On Tuesday, Democrat Representative Ritchie Torres appeared on CNN’s “The Situation Room” and claimed that under the Trump Administration, “any American” could be abducted, deported, and tortured.

CNN host Wolf Blitzer asked, “You are introducing a bill that would require the U.S. to secure the return of mistakenly deported individuals. Why is this necessary and will you have any Republican support?”

Torres replied, “I’m skeptical that we will have Republican support because the Republican party is fully captive to Donald Trump. But of all the abuses of Donald Trump’s presidency, there is no greater threat to liberty than his complete contempt for due process.”

He continued, “You know, without due process, what stops Donald Trump from wrongfully labeling any American as a non-citizen gang member and abducting them in the dead of night and rendering them to a foreign prison to be tortured? You know, Donald Trump’s actions set a dangerous precedent for our democracy.”

Torres  added, “If there is a foreign leader like the president of El Salvador who refuses to comply with an order from a federal court to release someone who’s been wrongfully deported, there should be geopolitical consequences, and those consequences should be swift and severe. It should include the suspension of relations with the United States and the termination of foreign assistance.”

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On Monday, CNN host Jake Tapper appeared on “The Lead” and accused the Trump administration of using “flimsy” evidence to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a migrant with ties to MS-13, who was sent to a prison in El Salvador.

Tapper declared, “Just a quick fact check on some of this and some important background on Garcia, who is married to a U.S. citizen. He has one child with her and two stepchildren. It is true that Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador, and it is true that he entered the United States illegally sometime around 2011. His attorneys say that he was initially fleeing gang violence in El Salvador. As for the allegation that he’s a member of MS-13, which he fervently denies, well, the evidence of that is much more flimsy. According to court documents, Garcia and three other men were arrested in 2019. He was asked if he was a gang member. He said no. Garcia had been deemed a gang member by the Prince George’s County Police Department in part because he was at the time wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie, and a confidential informant claimed that Garcia was an active member of MS-13, although he denied that at the time.

“Now, later that year, an immigration judge granted Garcia protective status, allowing him to stay in the United States legally, finding that even though Garcia was liable for deportation because he was in the country illegally, he should be protected from deportation, the judge said, to El Salvador because that would constitute a danger to him,” he ranted. “Here we are six years later, despite that protective order, and despite zero criminal convictions, Garcia is now back in El Salvador, and not just El Salvador in a notorious prison there. And while Trump’s officials claim and admit, rather, that it was an oversight that he was deported to begin with, they’re still clinging to this rather shoddily proven claim that he is, without question, an MS-13 member. And they’re doing that to justify the fact that he’s sitting in this prison in El Salvador.”

Tapper added, “Yeah, I think most people probably have more of an issue of him being deported to a notorious prison than they do have an issue with him being deported in general. But Trump is also suggesting he would like to send so-called homegrown violent criminals, American citizens, to prisons in El Salvador.”

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Yet, it was already determined in 2019 by two different courts that Garcia has ties to the gang. That was SIX years ago. Why do Democrats always defend criminals over the American people?

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Lots of folks on @X suggesting it was never proven in court that Abrego Garcia was a MS-13 member. FALSE!

The "Maryland man" did have his due process in 2019 from TWO courts. @TheJusticeDept has repeatedly made this point. So has @POTUS.

So ICYMI, I brought receipts.
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— Jay Town (@JayTownAlabama) April 15, 2025

In a new plan of desperation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is begging President Donald Trump to visit Ukraine and see the impact that war has had on the country, claiming that Trump and people in his administration can’t “understand” what is happening without seeing it first hand.

In an interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes published on Friday, Zelensky was asked if he would ever invite Trump Ukraine, to which he replied, “With pleasure. Please. I always wanted very much, that’s what I wanted to do, I did it… I always said that, we want you to come, to come and to see.”

He continued, “You think you understand what’s happening here, OK, we respect your position… everybody thinks they understand… but please. Before any kind of decisions, any kind of format of negotiations, come to see people — civilians, warriors, hospitals, churches, children destroyed or dead, wounded or just walking in the streets.”

Zelensky also recalled his visit to the Oval Office in February, in which things got heated between himself and Vice President JD Vance when he argued, “Have you ever been to Ukraine, have you seen what problems we have? Come once”.

Vance replied that foreign leaders who do visit are given a “propaganda tour” which is carefully curated. Clearly two months later, this is still a sore spot for Zelensky.

“We see this war differently,” he said, “I am in Ukraine and I understand what happened. But he does not understand at all. He speaks in the same language as the Russians… We will not prepare anything [for a VIP visit], it will not be theatre, with actors in the streets. We don’t do this, we don’t need it. You can go where you want in any city that has been under attack”.

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