El Salvador best not use OUR PROTECTED POPULATION as trading objects with Venezuela.

El Salvador opened it's torturous prison to innocent people according to USA standards of law. THEY ARE OURS. We apologize for the illegal activity of the Trump Administration. They are way outside the law and the entire incident should not have happened.  These men have families and employers waiting for them. They need to be returned promptly from El Salvador to the USA.

Enough. Stop the humiliation of men that deserve respect!

Some Americans take the issue of death of very viable lives seriously. Others, like Trump believe the life of others are disposable. That is not at all the case in the beliefs of most Americans. These men are not dangerous to us. They were provided a chance of asylum and made their lives count for GOOD. They weren't bad people. We wish they were back on USA soil already.

I am sure there are diplomats from the previous administration that would be happy to work with El Salvador to bring their own people home without any prisoner exchange with Venezuela. I am confident talks between El Salvador and Venezuela are possible. I betcha diplomats from NATO would also be interested in intervening if possible. They need to be asked. The idea of countries with conflicts talking to each other is a good idea. Diplomats from the Free World would love to resolve dilemmas all over the world. They need to be asked from earnest parties.

Food for thought. The companies leaving the USA may be looking for new homes for foreign investment to employ the people there and improve quality of life. I would love for countries like El Salvador to be at the top of such a list. That and countries in Africa. Africa needs sincere investment and not just medical and pharmaceuticals. Africa is missing that important component of growth that provides a country with assets to improve living conditions for it's people. Wall Street needs to think about where in the world there lacks profound investment to change the way the world ends suffering.

May 1, 2025
By Jay Weaver

A federal judge in Texas (click here) ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration cannot use an 18th Century law — meant to be deployed against members of a hostile foreign nation during a declared war or military invasion — as a basis to deport undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who supposedly belong to a violent Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua. 

The judge’s ruling permanently prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from removing immigrants detained under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in the Southern District of Texas, which includes Houston. His decision represents a major setback for the Trump administration’s effort to deport suspected members of the Venezuelan gang under the archaic law to a notorious mega prison in El Salvador....