Comment by justin66
1 day ago
Even calling it "deportation" is far too charitable towards what they've done. Deportation involves sending them back to their home countries or, if that's unsafe, to another country. These people were rendered to a prison where they're meant to spend the rest of their lives, without any of the due process even a foreigner who had committed a crime would normally be accorded in the United States under our constitution.
Great point and I'll add, by "would normally be accorded" you of course mean "is legally entitled to by our nation's foundational document."
> These people were rendered to a prison where they're meant to spend the rest of their lives
These men were never intended to spend the rest of their lives at CECOT, nor did they. All were released in July 2025 to their home country of Venezuela, and they were in El Salvador for a total of 125 days.
> These men were never intended to spend the rest of their lives at CECOT
Kristi Noem indicated publicly that they should stay there "the rest of their lives."
> nor did they. All were released in July 2025 to their home country of Venezuela, and they were in El Salvador for a total of 125 days.
No kidding. Things did not play out that way because the intention was just for a few months of torture for those people before they'd eventually be deported to Venezuela anyway, it was because of the legal and political uproar over what had been done.
Just to clarify - a prison without due process is more accurately called a "concentration camp".
"Prison" is for people convicted of crimes.