During the military coup in Argentina in the 1970s, the government routinely imprisoned and sometimes executed individuals without as much as charging them with a crime, let alone giving them due process. Many people reacted to such atrocities by blindly trusting the authoritarians in power and saying: “If the government did this, that person probably deserves it…”.

It’s hard to think of a more twisted reaction to such a clear violation of individual rights. It rings profoundly un-American to us in the U.S.

Yet that’s what many people are arguing when it comes to the case of Kilmar Abrego García, the man wrongfully transferred to a Salvadoran prison and now the protagonist of an unprecedented saga with the federal government, as explained recently in these pages. Some are sure the

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