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Dennis Donovan

(30,666 posts) Wed Apr 30, 2025, 11:41 AM Wednesday

The Bulwark: Jeffries Wants Dems to Put an End to the El Salvador Trips

The Bulwark - Jeffries Wants Dems to Put an End to the El Salvador Trips

Cory Booker and the Hispanic Caucus were planning on going. But Democratic leadership seems to want El Salvador trips to stop for a while.

Adrian Carrasquillo
Apr 30, 2025

HOUSE MINORITY LEADER Hakeem Jeffries was asked Monday whether Democrats should continue to advocate for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the other men wrongly shipped to El Salvador, by making the trip to the country to put a spotlight on the issue.

“Our reaction is that Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president in modern American history,” Jeffries responded.

But while Jeffries may be publicly agnostic on El Salvador trips like the one Reps. Robert Garcia, Yassamin Ansari, Maxwell Frost, and Maxine Dexter recently took, privately he sees the trips as having run their course. Two Democratic aides and a lawmaker who spoke to The Bulwark said that the minority leader has discouraged further excursions to the country even as pressure mounts within the party to turn up the heat on Trump for sending 238 men to a notorious prison system known for human rights abuses.

“They want to let the El Salvador stuff slow down,” a senior House staffer said.

Jeffries’s office declined to comment.

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The Bulwark: Jeffries Wants Dems to Put an End to the El Salvador Trips (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Wednesday OP

Incredible how he reads those polls and the correlation with El Salvador. Passages Wednesday #1

Of course he does. Hassin Bin Sober Wednesday #2

It is not about the prisoners, usedtobedemgurl Wednesday #3

How is it possible for them to be so blind? Or are they? Biophilic Wednesday #4

Sources unamed uponit7771 Wednesday #5

Is this the "Sacrifice few to save many" tactic or "The ends justify the means? Ping Tung Wednesday #6

This message was self-deleted by its author republianmushroom Wednesday #7

Passages

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1. Incredible how he reads those polls and the correlation with El Salvador.

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Wed Apr 30, 2025, 11:44 AM

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I have no words left for this guy.

Hassin Bin Sober

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2. Of course he does.

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Wed Apr 30, 2025, 11:46 AM

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usedtobedemgurl

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3. It is not about the prisoners,

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Wed Apr 30, 2025, 11:50 AM

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As much it is about our rights being destroyed including those in El Salvador. But let's not put up too much of a fight, it is just the constitution!!!!!!!!!

Biophilic

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4. How is it possible for them to be so blind? Or are they?

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Wed Apr 30, 2025, 11:52 AM

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The El Salvador story needs to keep being pushed and pushed hard. It angers people and makes them think. Especially right now before the economic woes really begin. We need something that touches people's emotions. The more intellectual we are the less people listen. Screw the gentle intellectual approach. We need emotions. And it would be incredible if we some how or other managed to get the guy back.

We need a victory and that's the only one that looks feasible. We also need to look like we are doing something, anything. No, Mr. Jeffries we need to keep pushing the El Salvador story not hush it up.