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  • He treated the situation as a civil war rather than a criminal matter. What do you do in war? You go after all enemy combatants, you don’t try to determine if one specific soldier killed any of yours. Anyone in enemy uniform is a legitimate target unless they surrender.

    El Salvador gangs do have specific ways of visually distinguishing themselves even if those are not traditional uniforms. Of course there are people wearing the same clothes and tattoos just because they think it’s cool, but that is unfortunately a darwin award case.

    In this context the captured are not in prison but in a POW camp. What he’s missing is an exit strategy. Eventually you have to establish a permanent peace and release the POWs under some conditions. Not to mention obey the Geneva Convention which enumerates some rights. That’s why he’s always framing it as being tough on criminals.














  • It’s easy to see how someone might fall into an anti-immigrant pipeline with news like this.

    • Thousands of immigrants are willing to risk death to reach the UK which they see as a promised land
    • I live in the UK and see nothing of this promised land, on the contrary my life is quite shitty, I’m barely making the ends meet
    • Therefore the good life opportunities are taken by the immigrants

    Of course what’s missing is the first-hand insight in the immigrant life, which is far from comfortable.

    Which makes me think what is driving those people to see specifically the UK as a promised land. Rather than any other country. Mass hysteria/cultural phenomenon? An extreme case of FOMO?