In one more disgusting show within the Oval Workplace, President Donald Trump stated he desires to ship U.S. residents to El Salvador’s notoriously violent jail the place he is at present sending immigrants with out due course of and in opposition to courtroom orders.
Throughout his Monday assembly with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, Trump was caught on digicam saying that “homegrowns are subsequent” to be despatched to CECOT, the Salvadoran jail the place persons are housed in inhumane situations, together with with out mattresses, pillows, correct vitamin, time outdoors, and entry to household or attorneys.
“The homegrowns. You gotta construct about 5 extra locations. It is not large enough,” Trump informed Bukele, apparently referring to U.S. residents who he desires to ship to CECOT.
When Trump was later requested if he would ship U.S. residents to CECOT, he didn’t hesitate to say sure.
“If they’re criminals, and in the event that they hit folks with baseball bats over the pinnacle, in the event that they rape 87-year-old girls, yeah. Yeah. That features them. I am all for it,” he stated.
Sending anybody to a notoriously brutal international jail is horrific. However the truth that he’s now considering of sending U.S. residents to CECOT ought to ship shivers down the backbone of each American.
In the US, people who find themselves incarcerated are nonetheless protected by the Structure. The eighth Modification prohibits “merciless and strange punishment,” and the 14th Modification says that states can’t “deprive any individual of life, liberty, or property, with out due strategy of legislation.”
In keeping with Human Rights Watch, CECOT’s situations are abhorrent, with members having witnessed “circumstances of torture, ill-treatment, incommunicado detention, extreme violations of due course of and inhumane situations, reminiscent of lack of entry to enough healthcare and meals.”
Even the U.S. State Division detailed the human rights violations in El Salvador’s prisons in 2023, saying that they killed a number of detainees both from “medical neglect or bodily abuse.”
“Jail situations earlier than the state of exception have been harsh and life threatening as a consequence of gross overcrowding; insufficient sanitary situations; inadequate meals and water shortages; a scarcity of medical providers in jail amenities; and bodily assaults. The addition of 72,000 detainees beneath the state of exception exacerbated the issue. Human rights organizations reported that as of August 22, greater than 70 detainees died in prisons from violence, inadequate medical care, and persistent well being situations,” the State Division’s report stated.
Trump and his MAGA minions have taken perverse pleasure in sending a whole bunch of Venezuelan immigrants to CECOT, even celebrating video of immigrants being shuffled into the jail regardless of a federal choose ordering Trump to return them to the US.
And regardless of the Supreme Courtroom upholding a decrease courtroom’s order for Trump to deliver again a Maryland man who was despatched to the jail by mistake, Trump and Bukele are refusing to conform—sparking a full-on constitutional disaster.
“That is sickening. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was right here legally. Trump illegally despatched him to a jail in El Salvador, and the administration admitted it was a mistake. The Supreme Courtroom ORDERED his return, however Trump has refused. If they’ll do that to him, they’ll do it to anybody,” Democratic Rep. Linda Sanchez of California wrote on X.
If Trump is refusing to adjust to courtroom orders to return immigrants from El Salvador, who’s to say he received’t ship journalists or political adversaries there subsequent?
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