Democrats Suddenly Care About 'Informants' When It's Not For Their Own Wars
The Hill highlighted Democrats' alarm over an alleged deal by Sen. Marco Rubio to deport MS-13 informants to El Salvador, expressing concern for their safety. This sudden moral clarity ignores a critical detail: MS-13, a gang formed in Los Angeles, grew exponentially after the U.S. deported thousands of Salvadoran refugees and U.S. residents – many with criminal records – back to a war-torn
country scarred by U.S.-backed proxy wars in the 1980s. President Reagan's administration, for example, heavily funded the Salvadoran military during a brutal civil war (Washington Post, 'A History of Violence,' 2017), contributing directly to the conditions that made El Salvador a breeding ground for such gangs. One might wonder where this selective concern for 'informant safety' was when the
U.S. funded death squads or trained Latin American militaries in counter-insurgency tactics. It appears the Democrats' outrage is less about human rights and more about controlling—or at least appearing to control—the narrative on who gets to make problematic foreign policy decisions. The cycle continues: the U.S. creates a problem, then selectively 'demands answers' when it becomes politically
inconvenient.