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The matching firsthand accounts across multiple interviews offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the mega prison, where inmates are denied access to lawyers & almost all contact with the outside world — & where about 14,000 Salvadorans remain incarcerated. Few detainees have ever left #CECOT, & fewer have spoken publicly of their experience there.

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‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the mega prison where the US *deported* #immigrants

Interviews with 16 former detainees of #ElSalvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions at the notorious prison.

#Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #law #immigration #rendition #CECOT #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #HumanRightsLaw
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The Washington Post · ‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrantsBy Samantha Schmidt
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Building the facility in the #Everglades & naming it after a notorious federal prison were meant as deterrents, #DeSantis & other #Republican ofcls have said.

The #Trump admin has delighted in the area’s remoteness & the fact that it is teeming w/ pythons & alligators. It hopes to convey a message to detainees & the rest of the world that repercussions will be severe if the #immigration laws of the #US are not followed.

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“I think you’re going to see the numbers go up dramatically,” #DeSantis said during a news conference near the #Florida #detention center.

Ofcls said that 2 or 3 flights have departed from the site so far, but they didn’t say where those flights headed.

Critics have condemned the facility as #cruel & #inhumane. DeSantis & other #Republican ofcls have defended it as part of the state’s aggressive push to support #Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

By deporting foreign nationals to often unstable third countries, the Trump administration is not only creating a novel class of exiles with little hope of returning to either the United States or their country of origin, but also explicitly using these vulnerable populations as bargaining chips in a wider strategy of diplomatic and geopolitical deal making.
#authoritarianism #Trumpism #migrants #legal #rendition #crime #USpolitics
nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear PeopleBy Jeff Crisp
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…Justice Sonia #Sotomayor pushed back against the practice of third-country *#deportations* in her dissent from the #SCOTUS ruling.

“What the government wants to do, concretely, is send the eight noncitizens it illegally removed from the United States from Djibouti to South Sudan, where they will be turned over to the local authorities without regard for the likelihood that they will face torture or death,” she wrote.

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#Eswatini, formerly known as #Swaziland, is a nation of about 6,700 square miles surrounded on 3 sides by #SouthAfrica. NYT previously reported negotiations w/ Eswatini in an investigation detailing how the #Trump admin had been looking to get >50 countries to take immigrants from other places.

#SCOTUS #law #Rendition #immigration #HumanRights
nytimes.com/2025/06/25/us/poli

The New York Times · Inside the Global Deal-Making Behind Trump’s Mass DeportationsBy Edward Wong
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“NEW: a *safe* third country *#deportation* flight to #Eswatini in Southern #Africa has landed — This flight took individuals so uniquely *barbaric* that their home countries refused to take them back,” wrote Tricia McLaughlin, a #DHS propagandist. She added that the men had been convicted of crimes including murder, assault & robbery.

#Trump#SCOTUS#law

#Rendition

The #Trump admin sent 5 immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen & Cuba to #Eswatini, a small African nation, on Tuesday, resuming the practice of so-called third-country *#deportations* after #SCOTUS cleared the practice earlier this month, #DHS ofcls said.

The *deportations* were announced on social media by the agency on Tues evening.

#law #immigration #HumanRights
nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/poli

The New York Times · Trump Administration Resumes Deportation Flights, Sending Migrants to EswatiniBy Hamed Aleaziz
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Among those who could be targeted are thousands of #immigrants with final removal orders who have not been deported to their native countries because a #judge found that they might face #danger there. Others are those with deportation orders to countries such as #China or #Cuba that do not always cooperate with #deportations because of their frosty relationship to the #US.

#Trump #law #SCOTUS #rendition #immigration #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower

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People being sent to countries where officials have not provided any “diplomatic assurances” that #immigrants will be safe will be informed 24 hours in advance — & in “exigent” circumstances, just 6. Those being flown to places that have offered those *assurances* could be deported with NO advance notice.

#ICE memo outlines plan to #deport #immigrants to countries where they are not #citizens
The shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

Federal #immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as 6 hours notice to countries not their own even if ofcls have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from #persecution or #torture….

#Trump #law #rendition
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The Washington Post · ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizensBy Maria Sacchetti

How #ElSalvador Is Reaping Rewards From #Trump #Deportations

In exchange for jailing more than 200 deportees, El Salvador’s president, Nayib #Bukele, has become a favorite of the Trump admin.

While the exact terms of the agreement have not been made public, leaders around the world may be watching, experts & #immigration lawyers say, especially as the Trump admin searches for countries willing to take expelled migrants of other nationalities.

#law #rendition
nytimes.com/2025/07/10/world/a

The New York Times · How El Salvador Is Reaping Rewards From Trump’s Deportation AgendaBy Annie Correal