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- Sending someone to a foreign prison is not deportation, it's imprisonment. Deportation is when we send people back to where they came from where they are free people who are able to resume their lives, just not inside the U.S.

- The constitution does not allow the president to send anyone to prison. That is the job of the courts, who are being bypassed, likely because the whole point of this is to establish precedent for extrajudicial imprisonment of anyone that the state finds inconvenient. They are starting to do it with pro-Palestine protesters already, and as Trump has already stated, he would like to do to U.S. citizens as well.

- Extra-judicial prisons are a new and dangerous precedent, and trying to establish that this prison in El Salvador is one is exactly why they won't bring that man back despite acknowledging that he was sent there by mistake. If they bring him back, then they will be expected to bring back anyone that the courts ask them to bring back. They don't want that precedent and so they'd rather let an innocent man rot in prison.

- "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech" doesn't mean "unless it only applies to non-citizens" or "unless it abridges the freedom of speech by proxy." Thus, either the law doesn't allow deporting people because of their speech, or the law is invalid because the first amendment forbids the law from being created. There's no room between those options to allow deporting non-citizens because of their speech. Any law that might be interpreted to allow any action against anyone because of their speech is a law that must also be interpreted as invalid because the first amendment forbids it. You can't claim a law doesn't abridge the freedom of speech when evaluating the legality of it and then say that it allows taking any action against someone because of their speech when applying it.

- No due process for illegal immigrants or gang members means no due process for anyone. You cannot prove you are a legal citizen nor can you disprove that you are a gang member if you aren't given due process. Nor can you disprove any other argument that might be used to explain why you can be deported without due process. Either due process exists for everyone, or you do not have it.

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