Comment Re:Understand the NYT's and the ex-agent's agenda (Score 3, Informative) 33
Your understanding of what happened is very wrong. The people the US sent to El Salvador to be tortured were Venezuelan.
While no US citizens were involved in this particular atrocity, Trump and Miller:
- Sent 238 people to the CECOT concentration camp
- Ignored any due process to send them
- Ignored court orders that were issued while the planes were still on the ground
- Pretended we were in a "war" in order to use the Alien Enemies Act
- Sent people who were in the US legally (about 75% of them were)
- Sent people who had absolutely no criminal record (at least 50 documented cases)
- Never reported their names; the US literally disappeared them
- Paid El Salvador to take them
- Made proposals to send US citizens to be tortured
- Freed a convicted murderer as part of the exchange that Venezuela arranged for its citizens
The people sent to the CECOT concentration were repeatedly beaten, tortured, and sexually abused
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The US is still deporting people to third countries, i.e. countries that the deportees have no history with or ties to. Deportees like these have been killed, arrested, and tortured.
https://refugees.org/tcdtracke...