MSNBC Host Argues the Deportation of Suspected MS-13 Gang Member Will Lead to the Deportation of Black American Citizens

MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend argued on Saturday that the deportation of Salvadoran National and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia is a slippery slope eventually leading to the deportation of Black American citizens.

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“We’ve been talking about this all week, but Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, she penned an op-ed in The Nation this week,” Sanders stated. {snip}

“And she says that what we are seeing now with the lawlessness from this administration are really the canaries in the coal mine gasping for air,” she continued. “I’m paraphrasing here. But to me, that is why Kilmar Abrego-Garcia’s specific case, the case of the gentleman who’s a make-up artist out of California who was also sent to that prison, that’s what the more – the 75% of the folks who have been sent, the men who have been sent there that don’t have criminal records – that is why this is so important.”

“If they can do it to them, if they can snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any of us,” Sanders-Townsend added. “To be very clear, it’s going to be the people of color, and vulnerable communities that are next in line.”

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