The Emergency Is Here | The Ezra Klein Show
April 17, 2025
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as posted by the channelThe president of the United States is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists: a prison built for disappearance, a prison where there is no education or remediation or recreation, a prison where the only way out, according to El Salvador’s justice minister, is in a coffin.
The president says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.
This is the emergency. Like it or not, it’s here.
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