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Maryland Man Abrego Garcia is reportedly headed to Uganda. His lawyers (he seems to have a bottomless supply of funds for attorneys' fees and/or big firm pro bono access) persuaded a well-chosen federal judge to block the onset of the lifetime safari that ICE has booked for him. As I understand it, the grounds for the (statutorily groundless) block by a district court are that it would be ever so mean not to take the deportee’s feelings into account, and therefore he should get another chance to take the option to go to Costa Rica that he had previously rejected. A rather weak ruling. So, if the law matters, soon it will be Uganda for Maryland's own.
The bumbling of the administration--let's review: 1. The failure to simply go back to the silly 2019 bar against returning him to his home country, armed with the actual facts of the gang issue before an administrative judge to undo the block; 2. The initial screwup of flying him to El Salvador into custody there; and 3. The ham-fisted Tennessee prosecution so tenuous that the judge had to grant bail. This has all been matched by a judicial circus and by the utterly bizarre spectacle of elderly white people mobilized in support of alien criminals, cheering for a man who looks more like the poster boy for the Trump enforcement policy than an appealing victim.
I think Netflix should get involved ASAP. Maryland Man in Uganda could be a fantastic reality series. With his gang experience, Uganda could open major opportunities. That nation has the second-highest criminal activity rating in East Africa and the seventh overall out of 54 African nations. There is a horrifically large volume of human trafficking (Abrego has that on his resume), gang violence (check) and smuggling on grand scale.
But there is no dominant organized crime gang in Uganda, just lots of independent players. A sharp young man with existing contacts with an actual major criminal enterprise (and not just the Democratic Party, and connected big law firms) could be running the place in no time. Don Corleone was only 25 when he shot Fanucci and began his rise. Abrego is only 29. Apparently the entire Ugandan government is on the take, so a film crew documenting the rise of a rising major player in crime carries no risk of arrest and offers the prospect of potentially huge ratings.
And I dare you to argue that my suggestion of a Ugandan Netflix series is any more insane than is the existing Maryland man saga.
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Sometimes I think these sagas are Providential in that the Lord wants us to be absolutely clear in the knowledge of what we have. We still make our own choices.
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Dunno why he rejected Costa Rica. A quick search on Ricochet for "Costa Rica" adjacent posts indicates it's something of a paradise. Indeed, it's where my stepdaughter and her new husband (1999) spent their honeymoon, birding, swimming, drinking, and otherwise relaxing.
Well, OK, that didn't work out, about twelve years down the road, but I don't think that was Costa Rica's fault.
CR is still on my own bucket list, actually. For the birds, if nothing else.
As for the Maryland Man, by all means send him to Uganda.
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Wonderful post.
With his gang experience, Uganda could open major opportunities. That nation has the second highest criminal activity rating in east Africa and the seventh overall out of 54 African nations. There is a horrifically large volume of human trafficking (Abrego has that on his resume), gang violence (check) and smuggling on grand scale.
Wonderful.
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He had to plead guilty to transporting illegals and serve his sentence before he could be removed to Costa Rica.
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