🚨"3 Salvadoran men sent to #CECOT by the Trump admin are still being held incommunicado there.

They haven't been able to talk to their families or attorneys since arriving in Mar."
-K Bush-Joseph

Inter-Am Comm on #HumanRights:🚨called on the govt of SLVr to protect three Salvadoran men deported by the US in a decision pub Tues that said they'd been held w/o the ability to communicate with their ATTYs or relatives since arriving.

#Deportations #DHS #DOJ #Torture #USPol
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-bukele-us-deportees-gangs-8783a2e31a558c070aa0f423bf2ec5eb

🚨"3 Salvadoran men sent to #CECOT by the Trump admin are still being held incommunicado there.

They haven't been able to talk to their families or attorneys since arriving in Mar."
-K Bush-Joseph

Inter-Am Comm on #HumanRights:🚨called on the govt of SLVr to protect three Salvadoran men deported by the US in a decision pub Tues that said they'd been held w/o the ability to communicate with their ATTYs or relatives since arriving.

#Deportations #DHS #DOJ #Torture #USPol
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-bukele-us-deportees-gangs-8783a2e31a558c070aa0f423bf2ec5eb

#HRW & #Cristosal also found detainees were subject to “constant beatings & other forms of ill-treatment,” including #SexualViolence. They noted guards withholding #food & #medicine. “Many of these abuses constitute #torture under international human rights #law,” the report says.

The #HumanRights orgs determined the #abuse was the result of “systematic violations,” rather than independent actions by guards & other ofcls at #CECOT.

#Trump #immigration #Rendition #InternationalLaw

…They described routine beatings & humiliations, medical neglect, & severe punishments in an isolation cell referred to as la isla, or the island, according to MJ reporting. “What they did there was #torture us,” one of the men said.

#HRW & #Cristosal found similar evidence of abuse. They concluded that the #Venezuelans sent to #CECOT “were subjected to what amounts to arbitrary detention & enforced disappearance under international human rights law.”

#Trump #law #immigration #HumanRights

Based on the testimonies of 40 men who were detained at #CECOT, as well as interviews with 150 other people—including lawyers & relatives in #Venezuela, #Colombia, & the US—it paints a damning picture of the abuses inflicted at CECOT.

The #Venezuelans were released in July and returned to their country of origin as part of a prisoner swap deal. Shortly after their release, 3 of the men told MJ that they faced severe #abuse.

#Trump #law #immigration #Rendition #HumanRights #DueProcess #torture

In early 2025, the #Trump admin flew Venezuelan immigrants to Salvadoran President #Bukele’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center [ #CECOT], where they were held for 4 months without communication w/ their families & lawyers. The US govt had accused the men of being members of the transnational gang Tren de Aragua & removed most of them from the #US under the #AlienEnemiesAct—an 18th-century #law that Trump has invoked for only the 4th time in US history.

#immigration #HumanRights #DueProcess

#Beatings. #SexualAssault. #PsychologicalAbuse. These are some of the horrors endured by the >250 men the #UnitedStates sent to #ElSalvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, acc/to a new comprehensive report released on Wednesday by #HRW & #Cristosal, a #HumanRights group focused on #CentralAmerica.

#Trump #law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CECOT #DueProcess #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity
https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/11/12/you-have-arrived-in-hell/torture-and-other-abuses-against-venezuelans-in-el

JFC!

#MarcoRubio promised to betray #US #informants to get #Trump the #ElSalvador prison #CECOT for #deportations
To secure Washington’s access to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, the secretary of state made an extraordinary offer to President Nayib Bukele.

#GiftArticle

#law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #immigration #judiciary
https://wapo.st/4nbNiM4

In the days before the #Trump admin deported hundreds of #Venezuelan immigrants to #CECOT, a notorious prison in #ElSalvador, the president of that country demanded something: the return of 9 MS13 gang leaders in US custody. Secy of #State #MarcoRubio, in a March 13 phone call with Salvadoran President Nayib #Bukele, promised the request would be fulfilled….But there was one obstacle: Some of the MS-13 members Bukele wanted were “ #informants” under the #protection of the US govt, Rubio told him.

JFC!

#MarcoRubio promised to betray #US #informants to get #Trump the #ElSalvador prison #CECOT for #deportations
To secure Washington’s access to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, the secretary of state made an extraordinary offer to President Nayib Bukele.

#GiftArticle

#law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #immigration #judiciary
https://wapo.st/4nbNiM4

If you haven't listened to one of the interviews with Andry Hernandez Romero yet, you owe it to yourself to do so. Andry is one of the men sent by the Trump gang to the #CECOT gulag in El Salvador, where they experienced constant physical and psychological abuse. Most of them did not have a criminal record.

They were only freed because the Trump gangsters recently found them to be useful pawns in an exchange with Venezuela.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5hdTHigTc

“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
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For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, they open up about the harm they experienced.

https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelans-cecot-el-salvador-trump-families-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Trump#Immigration#CECOT #ElSalvador#Immigrants#Deportation#ICE

"Half of America fetishizes and perseverates in its discontent over these sleights. How dare they make a movie where the fictional mermaid is a black girl! ...

This avalanche of trauma was piled onto him because the luckiest people in the history of the world were convinced that the immigrant down the street might eat their cat."

Video link is below.

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#CECOT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySsBj3OOg0

Miller writes,

"It’s hard not to contrast Andry’s mercy and forbearance with the small, sad grievances that dominate America’s political life today. Our current regime is powered by anger at a hundred perceived sleights: too many brown people at Harvard; a book with gay penguins; a swimmer who didn’t get the 4th place trophy she felt she deserved; having less than the Joneses."

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#CECOT
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Tim Miller offers a video clip of a conversation he had with Andry Hernández Romero, the gay Venezuelan makeup artist consigned by the Trump administration to torture and sexual abuse at CECOT.

Miller notes the grace and forbearance Andry is able to show even his tormentors, contrasting that with the outlook and behavior of Americans for whom Trump is a savior.

~ Tim Miller

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#CECOT
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/can-we-ever-repair-this-moral-rot-andry-romero-salvador-cecot-venezuela-deportation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySsBj3OOg0

“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
—

For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, they open up about the harm they experienced.

https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelans-cecot-el-salvador-trump-families-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Trump#Immigration#CECOT #ElSalvador#Immigrants#Deportation#ICE

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in #CECOT
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We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT in #ElSalvador by the #Trump administration.

Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw.

All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.

#News #HumanRights#Prison#Immigration#Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump