OPINION:
I seem to remember that the deep state and the Democrats ruined the life of Michael Flynn for purported abuse of the Logan Act, which “criminalizes the negotiation of a dispute between the United States and a foreign government by an unauthorized American citizen.” Can someone please explain to me, then, how a U.S. senator and multiple members of Congress are daring to demand that El Salvador release from custody and return to the U.S. a suspected member of MS-13 who was here illegally (“Judge rules administration must produce evidence in Abrego Garcia deportation,” Web, April 22)?
MS-13 is designated as a terrorist organization under U.S. law and is one of the most notorious and violent criminal gangs in the Western Hemisphere. Two immigration judges have found the man in question, Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to be a member of the gang. What’s more, the Democratic lawmakers’ visits to El Salvador on Abrego Garcia’s behalf are clear violations of the Logan Act.
How is it that under our Constitution — with its defined separation of powers — we have both the judicial and legislative branches conducting foreign policy?
BOB KLAUS
Amissville, Virginia
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