This should absolutely scare the shit out of literally everybody.

You can literally be disappeared into an El Salvadoran prison, with no charge or due process, and even on the off chance that there is someone willing to fight on your behalf while you rot in a foreign prison, the courts are literally powerless to do anything about it. The Trump administration is literally saying that yeah, they may send some people who aren’t actually gang members down there, but if there’s a mistake, that’s your problem.

And even if Trump does ask for your return (spoiler alert: This will happen exactly zero times), the Salvador government may not even play ball. They may not even know which one of the tens of thousands of prisoners there he even is. And that’s assuming you haven’t been killed by one of the literally 79 other cellmates you have or you haven’t died of some kind of disease due to the conditions there in the process.

If you for one second think that this won’t eventually apply to US citizens or Trump’s enemies, you haven’t been paying attention.

The courts are doing nothing to stop it. The GOP have bent the knee. And what’s worst is that a not-insignificant portion of the population is welcoming this with thunderous applause. But this is the world we live in now. Cross Trump, and he will find someone to say that you’re a Venezuelan gang member and have you shipped off to El Salvador where you will never return no matter what kind of money and resources you have. This is the United States.

The rest of the free world needs to start cutting ties with the US. Because it’s only going to get much, much worse from here.