This is a really sickening story. Several former MS-13 gang members living in the U.S. served as informants to the FBI and DOJ for the past several years. They provided a lot of valuable intel for combatting MS-13.
However, in an agreement with El Salvador's corrupt president Nayib Bukele, Rubio has started sending these MS-13 informants back to El Salvador so that they can rot to death in the CECOT prison down there or be executed by Bukele.
Now, why would Bukele want these MS-13 informants?.....because
Bukele's corrupt El Salvador government works with MS-13.
Yes, Trump and his stooges really care about combatting the drug trade and the drug cartels....they care so much that they send their most reliable sources of intel to El Salvador to die.
From the Washington Post. --
The deal would give Bukele possession of individuals who threatened to expose the alleged deals his government made with MS-13 to help achieve El Salvador’s historic drop in violence, officials said. For the Salvadoran president, a return of the informants was viewed as critical to preserving his tough-on-crime reputation. It was also a key step in hindering an ongoing U.S. investigation into his government’s relationship with MS-13, a gang famous for displays of excessive violence in the United States and elsewhere.
But in promising to terminate the informant arrangements, current and former Justice Department officials say Rubio threatened to undercut years of work by U.S. law enforcement to apprehend and secure the cooperation of high-ranking members of one of the world’s most deadly gangs.
“The deal is a deep betrayal of U.S. law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members,” said Douglas Farah, a U.S. contractor who worked with federal officials to investigate and help dismantle the MS-13 gang.
Nixing the agreements also threatens to damage the credibility of the Justice Department, which routinely relies on informants to build cases against high-level criminals, officials said. Informant agreements are based on assurances the cooperators will be protected by the United States. Reneging on promises made in exchange for information could hinder the ability of U.S. law enforcement to develop relationships with potential cooperators in the future.
“Who would ever trust the word of U.S. law enforcement or prosecutors again?” Farah said.
