Well, hey, looks like those illegals sent to El Salvador had some value after all, and get to be repatriated
El Salvador releases hundreds of US deportees from notorious prison in US-Venezuela swap
The Trump administration completed a large-scale prisoner swap with Venezuela on Friday, sending about 250 Venezuelans who had been deported and imprisoned in El Salvador back to their home country in exchange for 10 US nationals, officials said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on social media the Americans, the last known to be detained in Venezuela, were now “on their way to freedom.”
“Until today, more Americans were wrongfully held in Venezuela than any other country in the world,” Rubio said in a statement. “Every wrongfully detained American in Venezuela is now free and back in our homeland.”
Among the Americans released were Jorge Marcelo Vargas, Lucas Hunter and Wilbert Joseph Castaneda, a US official confirmed.
The sister of Hunter, 37, previously told CNN he had vacationed in the region in late 2024 to kite surf. The nonprofit Global Reach said he was “kidnapped by Venezuelan border guards” from inside Colombia in January.
The planes with the Venezuelans, reportedly TDA gang members, were landing Friday night.
Venezuelan officials on Friday afternoon announced the arrival of a separate flight from Texas delivering its citizens, including several children who had been separated from their families and kept in US care. “On this flight, there can be good news for Venezuelans,” interior minister Diosdado Cabello said, adding, “more movement” and additional arrivals are expected today.
Time for them to all go home. If any want to become Americans they can do it through the normal naturalization process.
The families of Americans wrongfully detained in Venezuela met virtually with senior national security official Seb Gorka earlier this year, participants and a White House official told CNN.
Following that meeting, an American Air Force veteran was released from imprisonment in Venezuela in May, CNN reported. Joseph St. Clair was released to US special envoy Richard Grenell, the family statement said. St. Clair had been detained since November and was one of nine Americans declared wrongfully detained in Venezuela.
What did Biden do to get our citizens back? Hate Trump if you want, he puts Americans first.
Our distinguished host concluded:
Let’s hope it works out that way, because Nicolas Maduro is just as likely to ship those 250 Tren de Artichoke gang members back to the US. If he does, at least they’ll have previous deportation action against them, and re-entry would be a felony, and they could be locked up as soon as they get caught again.
… No.
Fixed it for you.
We have enough foreigners. We don’t need any more. Many of the ones we have need to go home.
Early foreigners killed some 50-100 million Native Americans. We are descendants of those foreigners. So maybe, lighten up a bit.
In fact, we do need foreigners, regardless of your bigotry.
So, you just admitted that you’re for foreigners coming here and killing Americans — in other words, an invasion.
We’ll be sure to steer them to your house.
fp,
Yes, dumbass, that’s what I’m for. As are you. After all, you ‘are for’ ICE thugs loitering in courthouses kidnapping children and mothers, while ignoring violent criminals.
So, you just admitted you ‘are for’ murder, pollution, ignorance, lies, deporting American children, murdering Palestinians and Ukrainians, diseases, rape, unemployment, national debt, war, inflation and starvation.
Most Americans killed are killed by American men.
Wow, you got all that — kidnapping, murder, pollution, ignorance, lies, etc. — from 27 little words in one post? Care to explain how you made that leap, or are you just making stuff up again — and not even being original! How dull — to try to distract from the fact that, once again, you’ve been cornered and you’ve got nothing?
BTW, if you’re going to resort to childish name-calling, would it be too much to ask for you to be more creative than “dumbass”? You’ve used this one several times and it’s getting old. You know, variety being the spice of life and all.
FP,
We’ll consider your request, dumbass.
Yes, if you’re a MAGAt, you ‘are for’ murder, pollution, ignorance, lies, deporting American children, murdering Palestinians and Ukrainians, diseases, rape, unemployment, national debt, war, inflation and starvation.
Still can’t explain how you made the leap, can you? Must’ve been too much to ask of an unimaginative dullard, especially one that openly admits he hates America and wants it invaded by hostile foreigners.
Like I’ve said before, you’re free to leave. But you never take the offer. So American conservatives and Trump supporters must be nowhere near as bad as you make them out to be.
MAGAts, exemplified by FP, cannot understand that most Americans love the nation more than they detest trump and MAGAtism.
I’m staying. You’re the MAGAt that wants to change America. You leave. Buh bye!
Child, Trump won. By a majority. It’s because of those who love this nation that Trump’s approval ratings are much higher than that of the Democrat party.
So stamp your feet and scream all the louder in your impotent denialism — just makes the juxtaposition between you and those who build things all the more stark. Meanwhile, the rest of us are at work, Making America Great Again.
Grumpy,
Mr trump won, but just barely, and without a majority of voters. Over 50% of voters qualifies as a majority.
When will Mr trump start Making America Great Again?
He had a chance 2017 to 2021 and failed. He tried to steal the 2020 election and should be in prison – today he wants to get his corrupt DOJ ot prosecute Obama and Clinton for opposing him.
We actual patriots understand that America is the greatest nation but is not perfect. The MAGAts deny America’s greatness, believing that our Constitution is fatally flawed and christian, caucasian, conservative beliefs should rule.
Mr FP should look up the meaning of fascism.
This is all unlikely to end without blood.
Trump won, bigly. No amount of foot-stomping denialism on your part will change that fact. If you think your mere words can change reality, which is apparently what the Democrat party and their media sycophants believe, then you deserve to lose elections and be relegated to the dustbin of history.
On Friday, Newsweek published an article headlined, “Donald Trump ‘Is Most Successful President After Six Months’ Since FDR.” If you picked up a paper every now and then, you’d know this rather than wallowing in ignorance.
If this ends in blood, it will be because the the left will do what it always does: Go for the gun, egged on by the Democrat base baying for blood and elected Democrat officials inciting violence.
Patriotic Americans don’t call for the blood of their fellow countrymen, ED. Your Democrat party, with their constant hateful rhetoric and incitement of violence, has you whipped into such a frenzy that you don’t even know which way is up anymore.
Why were these non-Venezuelans in Venezuela in the first place? Doesn’t Venezuela have the right to detain illegals they find there? The American citizen illegals were arrested by Venezuelan ICE. Who vacations in Venezuela (Venezuela has the highest Travel Advisory level – Level 4: Do Not Travel).
Joseph St. Clair, 33, released in May from Venezuela, was denied a visit to the White House for having pending drug and DWI charges. St. Clair served in Afghanistan and was there to get treatment for his PTSD and for work. Uh huh, of course.
Mr teach typed that the 250 or so Venezuelans were “reportedly TDA gang members”. “Reported” by the corrupt Salvadoran Prez Bukele.
A senior US administration official said dozens of Venezuelan political prisoners were released, 10 of which were Americans.
Mr teach typed:
President Biden brought home some 70 Americans detained outside the U.S.
Here are the ‘Americans’ Mr trump rescued: WJ Castaneda, Jorge Marcelo Vargas, Lucas Hunter, Jonathan Pagan Gonzalez, Ronald Oribio Quintana, Erick Oribio Quintana, Fabian Buglione Reyes, Renzo Humanchumo Castillo, Juan Jose Faria Bricen and Danud Hanid Ortiz,
fp,
You’re the one who lied saying that Mr trump won a majority.
Newsweek pointed out that Mr trump and the MAGAGOP Congress has been successful in getting his stuff passed:
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Trump’s agenda has emphasized themes such as:
Imposing tariffs.
Engaging in peace negotiations (e.g., between Russia and Ukraine).
Cracking down on border security.
Implementing tax cuts.
Also from the Newsweek article…LOL
1. FDR
2. DJT47
3. Biden!!
Finally, it’s your hero Mr trump sending the United States military to stop protesters. Speaking of violence, was the MAGA-GOP storming of the the United States Capitol Building violent?
Rimjob, President Donald Trump won a relative majority if you really want to parse words, dipshit.
Oh Porter,
You mean a plurality. Trump won but did not have a majority, just as I said.
What makes you think I have something against Porter Good??
You keep posting his picture when replying to me, dumbfuck.
You know I ain’t him and he ain’t me,
Rimjob.
ED, the majority of the electoral vote (which is the only vote that matters in a presidential election) and the majority of the popular vote is… wait for it: A majority. Of the votes cast. Your spinning and tilting at windmills, while amusing if not pathetic, doesn’t erase the fact that Trump won and is the president.
I know. Trump’s victory hurts you somethin’ fierce and you’ve been throwing tantrums ever since.
Poor baby.
Mr trump won in 2024, true. He lost in 2020, right?
He did not win a majority of the popular vote either time.
You just like to argue – without making even one argument.
Usually, an elected president is expected to be president for all Americans. Not just a minority that voted for him.
So? As I’ve had to remind you before due to your Constitutional ignorance, the popular vote doesn’t matter — it’s the electoral college, stupid, and there Trump walked all over Harris. He won decisively, with a mandate, and there ain’t a dang thing you can do about it. So you can bleat all you want about the popular vote, but until the Constitution is amended, the Electoral College is the only mechanism by which a president is elected.
ED whined:
The pathetic mewlings of a sore loser. Get over yourself. Learn to embrace reality.
Rimjob can’t embrace reality because he is a mewling quim himself.
Look it up. LOL.