14 h. ago First video of deported Tren de Aragua gang members in notorious El Salvador mega prison

Footage has been shared of the new El Salvador Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism, where a violation of human rights is believed to be in order, due to the harsh conditions of the massive penitentiary

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34 h. ago Deported 'Tren de Aragua gangsters' scream in distress in first video from inside El Salvador prison

The scene unfolded as US representatives toured the brutal facility with the country's president, Nayib Bukele.

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3 w. ago How all of Trump’s gang claims against wrongfully deported man boil down to one unnamed informant

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, languishing in El Salvador mega-prison, accused of being MS-13 member but evidence to substantiate claim is thin, court records reveal

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3 w. ago Donald Trump blasted in blistering court order about wrongly deported Kilmar Ábrego García

Kilmar Ábrego García is currently in an El Salvador mega prison, notorious for housing gang members, but the US government had admitted his deportation was as a result of an "administrative error"

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3 w. ago Trump’s gilded Oval Office was the perfect setting for his and Bukele’s grotesque spectacle | Julia Carrie Wong

The president’s penchant for the gaudy has been mocked but the menace beneath was clear when he met El Salvador’s leaderThe Oval Office meeting of Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele on Monday was a grotesque spectacle. Both men, elected to lead nominally democratic countries, have described themselves as dictators, and they exuded that sense of smug impunity. While reporters sought answers on the fate of Kilmar Ábrego García, a 29-year-old father of three who was wrongly deported to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot mega-prison, Trump and Bukele disclaimed responsibility, joked about further deportations, and engaged in casual slander of Ábrego García, who is not, and has never been alleged to be, a terrorist.And then there was the gold. So much gold. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’

Jennifer Vasquez Sura criticizes DHS’s attempt to smear her wrongly deported husband over 2021 civil protective orderWho is Kilmar Ábrego García, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador?The wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man unlawfully deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s attempt to smear his character, saying a temporary restraining order against him was “out of caution” and that “he is a loving partner and father” who is being denied justice.Jennifer Vasquez Sura said she “acted out of caution after a disagreement with Kilmar” when she got the civil protective order in 2021, according to a statement emailed to the Baltimore Sun. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Home growns are next’: Trump tells El Salvador president to build more jails for U.S. citizens

Trump says he’s ‘all for’ jailing American citizens in El Salvador’s notorious mega prison

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3 w. ago The Trump administration trapped a wrongly deported man in a catch

The US says it can’t aid in his return as he’s in El Salvador; El Salvador says to help would be like ‘smuggling’ him backIt is difficult to find a term more fitting for the fate of the Maryland father Kilmar Abrego García than Kafkaesque.Abrego García is one of hundreds of foreign-born men deported under the Trump administration to the Cecot mega-prison in El Salvador as part of a macabre partnership with the self-declared “world’s coolest dictator”, Nayib Bukele. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Trump’s already skirting due process. Now he’s musing about deporting citizens | Moira Donegan

Amid a series of sadistic expulsions, the White House says Trump has reflected kicking Americans out of the countryThey’re rounding people up, and you could be next. The Trump administration has largely dispensed with due process rights in deporting immigrants, who are now being targeted for their protected speech, having their visas or green cards summarily cancelled without process and sometimes without notice, and getting kidnapped off the streets and hustled into vans so that they can be shipped to “detention centers” too far away for their loved ones, or their lawyers, to visit them.Some immigrants are being targeted for disappearance because they oppose Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, an opinion that it is now physically dangerous, instead of merely unpopular, to hold. But others the government seems to be seizing almost at random. More than 200 Venezuelan nationals have been seized and deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, rendered outside of US jurisdiction in...

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