—> US Sends Immigrants to Salvadoran Prison

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Unusual for Trump to publicly back away from anything but he seems to be framing Rubio as the loser in this case.
 
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“… Around 2 a.m., the convoy of 22 buses, flanked by armored vehicles and police, moved out of the airport. Soldiers and police lined the 25-mile route to the prison, with thick patrols at every bridge and intersection. For the few Salvadorans, it was a familiar landscape. But for a Venezuelan plucked from America, it must have appeared dystopian—police and soldiers for miles and miles in woodland darkness.

The Terrorism Confinement Center, a notorious maximum-security prison known as CECOT, sits in an old farm field at the foot of an ancient volcano, brightly lit against the night sky. I’ve spent considerable time there and know the place intimately. As we entered the intake yard, the head of prisons was giving orders to an assembly of hundreds of guards. He told them the Venezuelans had tried to overthrow their plane, so the guards must be extremely vigilant. He told them plainly: Show them they are not in control.

The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.” I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster.

The men were pulled from the buses so fast the guards couldn’t keep pace. Chained at their ankles and wrists, they stumbled and fell, some guards falling to the ground with them. With each fall came a kick, a slap, a shove. The guards grabbed necks and pushed bodies into the sides of the buses as they forced the detainees forward. There was no blood, but the violence had rhythm, like a theater of fear. …”
 
nycfan said:
“… Around 2 a.m., the convoy of 22 buses, flanked by armored vehicles and police, moved out of the airport. Soldiers and police lined the 25-mile route to the prison, with thick patrols at every bridge and intersection. For the few Salvadorans, it was a familiar landscape. But for a Venezuelan plucked from America, it must have appeared dystopian—police and soldiers for miles and miles in woodland darkness.

The Terrorism Confinement Center, a notorious maximum-security prison known as CECOT, sits in an old farm field at the foot of an ancient volcano, brightly lit against the night sky. I’ve spent considerable time there and know the place intimately. As we entered the intake yard, the head of prisons was giving orders to an assembly of hundreds of guards. He told them the Venezuelans had tried to overthrow their plane, so the guards must be extremely vigilant. He told them plainly: Show them they are not in control.

The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.” I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster.

The men were pulled from the buses so fast the guards couldn’t keep pace. Chained at their ankles and wrists, they stumbled and fell, some guards falling to the ground with them. With each fall came a kick, a slap, a shove. The guards grabbed necks and pushed bodies into the sides of the buses as they forced the detainees forward. There was no blood, but the violence had rhythm, like a theater of fear. …”
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“… After being shaved, the detainees were stripped naked. More of them began to whimper; the hard faces I saw on the plane had evaporated. It was like looking at men who passed through a time machine. In two hours, they aged 10 years. Their nice clothes were not gathered or catalogued but simply thrust into black garbage bags to be thrown out with their hair.

After being shaved, the detainees were stripped naked. More of them began to whimper; the hard faces I saw on the plane had evaporated. It was like looking at men who passed through a time machine. In two hours, they aged 10 years. Their nice clothes were not gathered or catalogued but simply thrust into black garbage bags to be thrown out with their hair.“

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Zero due process. Swept into a torture prison in a country they are not from. A lot of them may be gang member who should be convicted and deported. But we don’t know because all we have is the word of an Administration that lies regularly….
 
Again, why in the world would the Trump Administration be doing this if they didn't want to deliberately isolate us from the rest of the world? Crap like this is receiving major publicity internationally and is certainly going to hurt our tourism industry, perhaps severely if it continues, so there is no economic sense or reason for it whatsoever. Either they're doing it out of pure spite with no thought about the repercussions on the American economy, or this is a deliberate attempt to turn the rest of the world against us and leave us weaker and more isolated. If there are other reasons I'd love to hear them.
 
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“… At an immigration detention facility in Texas that morning, many of the men knew they were about to be deported but thought they were headed home to Venezuela. Some told family members they were even happy that their ordeal in America appeared to be over.

“He was relieved because he was ready to leave the hole where he had been,” Eirisneb Rodríguez said, recounting a call last Friday from her husband, Obed Navas, a barber who lived in Sherman, Texas.

The next night, the Venezuelans stepped off planes to learn they had landed in El Salvador. There, President Nayib Bukele’s government met them with hundreds of soldiers and police officers in riot gear to film their handover and lock them up in the Terrorism Confinement Center, or Cecot, known as the world’s largest prison and home to the country’s most violent gang members.

… The White House signaled that the use of wartime powers to send deportees to a Salvadoran prison and broadcasting their treatment were meant to serve as a deterrent. The Trump administration is “encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport, to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. She described the deportees as “heinous monsters” and gang members who had invaded the U.S. from Venezuela intent on committing violent crimes.

… The Wall Street Journal spoke with the families of seven of the deported Venezuelan migrants who had all left their homes between late 2023 and last year for the U.S., where they applied for political asylum.

Many of the men, who worked as barbers and at other jobs, are married with small children. They were detained in the days after Trump took office in January, accused of being affiliated with TdA and sent to detention centers in Texas.

… Roughly half the 261 deportees were removed under Trump’s wartime authority, according to the White House. Another 101 were removed under Title 8, or regular immigration proceedings, and 23 were members of El Salvador’s MS-13 gang.

… Among those detained was César Francisco Tovar, 23 years old, who had come to the U.S. with his family in October 2023, claimed political asylum and started work in a barbershop. His wife, Yulainy Herrera, said police on Jan. 27 pulled him over in San Antonio, where they had been living, and asked to see his driver’s license.
 
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