Posted on 02/09/2023 8:58:10 AM PST by BenLurkin
More than 200 political prisoners were released by Nicaragua this morning. The 222 prisoners were put on an early morning flight to Washington and will arrive in the next few hours.
On state television a judge said the government had decided to "deport" the prisoners, saying they had been declared traitors and can never again serve public office.
A U.S. State Department spokesperson said Nicaragua made the decision "unilaterally," but that the United States had "facilitated the transportation" and the political prisoners would be admitted into the United States for "humanitarian reasons."
Ever since anti-government protests erupted in Nicaragua in 2018, President Daniel Ortega has unleashed violent repression. He has consolidated his power, thrown his political opponents in prison and hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled.
Lawyers and family members of the prisoners say they were kept in horrific conditions. Some had spent many years in jail. Others were arrested in the run-up to the 2021 presidential elections.
Probably common thugs, like Mariel.
And why would we want them?! NO! Send them back, let them go to a neighboring country, anywhere but the US.
And in return we won’t deport 100,000 Nicaraguans that walked across our borders the past two years.
What a friggin’ outrage. I hope you guys make it ‘til 24. This coup is bound, bent and determined to put you under.
If these truly are political prisoners, which they likely are not. They may be the only true asylum seekers in the lot.
What is trying to be intimated here at least at the beginning is that Trump let these people suffer in jail in Nicaragua while Good ‘Ol Lunch Pail head Joe has freed many political prisoners. A Jimmy Carter stunt redux.
“And why would we want them?!”
Probably so the CIA can train them, arm them, and send them back.
Political repression similar to that which is coming to our country very soon.
Keep ‘em. We don’t need ‘em. We’ve already got tons of “political prisoner asylum refugees” coming out our ears!
Where’s that picture of rim shot Kerry loving up Ortega…
WHat is the line about it is not great to be the enemy of the U.S., but it is much worse to be her friend. Kissinger???
Ortega told Biden they were political prisoners and Biden believed him.
The people he's shipping over here are most likely violent psychos, hardened by prison, possessing no skills and 80 IQs.
Ortega is no idiot. Biden is.
It’s already here. Hopefully the J6 political prisoners will be freed.
Funny. If that were the case, we already have plenty of Nicaraguans here in the US that could be trained, armed, and sent home.
Nicaragua is a Communist country that has arrested hundreds of people including more than a half-dozen potential presidential candidates last year who opposed Daniel Ortega’s rule.
These folks aren’t criminals just political opponents of an old school Castroite, Chavista thug.
These people were victims of Communist oppression but of course this country isn’t exactly a beacon of liberty nowadays no matter how Biden spins it.
How much fentanyl and other illegal narcotics that are killing Americans are they bringing with?
joe, of course, agreed to take them. He is by far the worst president ever.
Liberals, libertarians, demoRATS, Rinos. The banes of civilization.
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