Marco Rubio was going to secure a deal for President Donald Trump"even if it meant betraying U.S. informants.
The secretary of state made a secret agreement with the president of El Salvador to hand over legally protected U.S. "informants," so the Trump administration could deport hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a notorious prison in the country, a new Washington Post report revealed on Sunday.
The backroom deal, officials told the Post, undermined years of work from an ongoing U.S. investigation aimed at apprehending high-ranking members of MS-13, one of the world's most violent gangs, whose acts of brutality have been on display in the U.S. and beyond.
"The deal is a deep betrayal of U.S. law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members," Douglas Farah, a U.S. contractor who worked with federal officials to investigate and help dismantle the MS-13 gang, told the outlet.
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My wife and I participated in the 'No Kings' rally earlier today, in our case we were down in Laguna Hills (there was no rally in Irvine as they have a rally every Sunday in front of city hall).
There were probably 2,000 to 3,000 people there. It covered the sidewalks, on both sides of the street, for about three city blocks, plus down some of the side streets and in other places where people could gather.
There were a lot of people in costume, inspired I guess by what's been happening in Portland for the last week or so.
Note that it was totally peaceful and there were no counter-protestors.
And my 'Gulf of Mexico' T-shirt was a hit, with many people asking if they could take a picture.
OCU