Nicaragua sends 222 political prisoners to the U.S.



Nicaragua unexpectedly released over 200 political prisoners in the biggest prisoner release the U.S. government has ever negotiated. The detainees were held by authoritarian leader Daniel Ortega who has been targeting political opponents and critics. NBCโ€™s Allie Raffa has the details.

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24 comments

  1. Wow… … … Ja… Ja… Ja. Do we need "politicians from a leftist country"?.

  2. Plz dear god send them backโ—

  3. President zelensky locked up all his competition they're political prisoners when are we going to release them Uncle Joe. You're not going to do squat about that because olinsky is your homeboy and you and him are making tons of cash๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿคฃ and if anybody gets in the way of your money Uncle Joe then their terrorist an insurrectionist you're such a freaking hypocrite Joe

  4. Biden will give each of them, $6,000 a month Social Security. I'm retired, and Dems PROMISED 3 years ago, to Raise minimum Social Security to the Poverty Level… BUT,,, THAT WAS A LIE !
    I'm still Only Getting $705 a MONTH !
    Dems Value Foreigners,,, MORE THAN CITIZENS !

  5. Socialist doing what they do best…

  6. Trump is jealous of Ortega… he could not pull off the same imprisonment of his political challengers, though he gave it his best shot.

  7. Good for these people. Ortega is awful.

  8. Biden working hard for that Latino vote I see.

  9. These aren't Americans they released right? These are Nicaraguan citizens

  10. What I love about Biden Ad.Minis+RatEons over Mr. RishiTrump's Border Policy!

    #HuMinsItGetsIt #HumanRightIsntFruitPickingJob

  11. ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿคธ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿคธ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿ‘ฌ๐Ÿ‘ฌ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿ‘ญ๐Ÿคฐ๐Ÿคฐ๐Ÿคฐ๐Ÿคฐ๐Ÿคฐ

  12. Why keep sending non Americans to America

  13. Welcome ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฎ

  14. Send them to Martha's vineyard

  15. Political prisoners like Marcus Garvey, Geronimo Pratt, Mutulu Shakur? Naw, probably just european sycophants.

  16. Great… 222 more CIA pieces of trash to deal with on the homefront.

  17. biden is showing signs of facial drooping and trouble speaking… he is 80…. a stroke could happen any second

  18. I hope Putin is watching and will release his political prisoners as well.

  19. People leave countries as we take over social assets they have. Companies should own resources not the people

  20. Wow, that's quite a number. What did we give them?

  21. Everybody is here anyways