A previously undisclosed State Department report and interviews reveal accusations that U.S. Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson shielded Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforcement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ambassador-ronald-johnson-nayib-bukele-trump-el-salvador?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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JFC!
#MarcoRubio promised to betray #US #informants to get #Trump the #ElSalvador prison #CECOT for #deportations
To secure Washington’s access to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, the secretary of state made an extraordinary offer to President Nayib Bukele.
#law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #immigration #judiciary
https://wapo.st/4nbNiM4
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Sworn declarations submitted overnight from #Venezuelans deported by #Trump to #ElSalvador prove innocent & legal #immigrants were sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center forced labor facility.
Here is one from a professional soccer player imprisoned in #CECOT & forced into hard labor on the basis of soccer-related tattoos & a single, innocent hand gesture.
#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #Judiciary #ConstitutionalCrisis #AbuseOfPower #Trump
![Initially, Reyes Barrios was placed in maximum security at Otay Mesa & accused of being a Tren de Aragua gang member. The accusation is based on 2 things. First, he has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary & the word "Dies." OHS alleges that this tattoo is proof of gang membership. In reality, he chose this tattoo, because it is similar to the logo for his favorite soccer team Real Madrid. See logo below. [pictures of the tattoo & the pictures of the logo]. Second, OHS reviewed his social media posts & found a photo of Reyes Barrios making a hand gesture that they allege is proof of gang membership. After submitting a police clearance from Venezuela indicating no criminal record, multiple employment letters, a declaration from the tattoo artist who rendered the tattoo, & various online images showing similar soccer ball/crown tattoos & explaining the meaning of the hand gesture, Reyes Barrios was transferred out of maximum security. Nevertheless on March 10th or 11th, he was transferred from Otay Mesa to Texas without notice. Then, on March 15, 2025, he was deported to El Salvador. Counsel & family have lost all contact with him have no information regarding his whereabouts or condition.](/proxy/post_attachment/654365/b41b7c47fc.png "Initially, Reyes Barrios was placed in maximum security at Otay Mesa & accused of being a Tren de Aragua gang member. The accusation is based on 2 things. First, he has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary & the word \"Dies.\" OHS alleges that this tattoo is proof of gang membership. In reality, he chose this tattoo, because it is similar to the logo for his favorite soccer team Real Madrid. See logo below. [pictures of the tattoo & the pictures of the logo]. Second, OHS reviewed his social media posts & found a photo of Reyes Barrios making a hand gesture that they allege is proof of gang membership. After submitting a police clearance from Venezuela indicating no criminal record, multiple employment letters, a declaration from the tattoo artist who rendered the tattoo, & various online images showing similar soccer ball/crown tattoos & explaining the meaning of the hand gesture, Reyes Barrios was transferred out of maximum security. Nevertheless on March 10th or 11th, he was transferred from Otay Mesa to Texas without notice. Then, on March 15, 2025, he was deported to El Salvador. Counsel & family have lost all contact with him have no information regarding his whereabouts or condition.")
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A federal appeals court on Tues said the #Trump admin did not have to comply for now with a judge’s order to give #DueProcess to scores of #Venezuelan #immigrants who were deported to #ElSalvador under a wartime #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct.
The ruling, by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, came one day before the admin was supposed to outline for a lower-court judge how to allow nearly 140 deported #Venezuelans to challenge their expulsion.
#immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/politics/trump-venezuelans-deportations-el-salvador-boasberg.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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#Trump Admin Knew Vast Majority of #Venezuelans Sent to #ElSalvador Prison Had Not Been Convicted of US Crimes
#DHS records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having NO #criminal record in the US & had only violated #immigration laws.
#law #AlienEnemiesAct #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #judiciary #FactCheck #TrumpLies #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/30/trump-el-salvador-deportees-criminal-convictions-cecot-venezuela
https://youtu.be/15k3paCFDYg
⛔️🇺🇸Failing to learn from History - How America Falls Into A Fascist Dictatorship: Trump Breaks America, Voters Yawn? (w/ Anne Applebaum) | Focus Group (The Bulwark VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #Germany #France #Italy #PACE #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #America #Fascism #Dictators #ElSalvador #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
Today was a very good news day. Two federal judges moving towards holding administration people in contempt. A senator goes to #ElSalvador and learns information helpful to the #Garcia case.
And a friend of mine reports that #doomerism is all over Facebook. People saying it's all hopeless, none of this matters.
And one of my heroes here in the Fediverse, @GottaLaff , has been getting the same.
This is like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. 1/
#Trump says he could bring back #KilmarAbregoGarcia, an #immigrant his admin wrongly deported to the infamous #CECOT prison in #ElSalvador. But he won’t, despite #SCOTUS’ order to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia, who was deported unlawfully in the first place.
by Adam Serwer
#law #immigration #FactCheck #TrumpLies #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-abrego-garcia-smears/682773/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXUvK2gAhWVb3xi8qi5xPpA
The #Trump admin says Secy of #State #MarcoRubio is "personally handling" discussions with #ElSalvador over the return of wrongly deported migrants.
He has a "personal relationship" with #Bukele that dates to his time on #ForeignRelations Cmte.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483.290.1.pdf
#immigration #law #DueProcess #AlienEnemiesAct #CivilRights #HumanRights
Of the 238 men deported to the prison in El Salvador, DHS data shows:
• 130 had no U.S. criminal histories aside from immigration violations;
• 32 had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.;
• 6 of those were violent crimes.
#News #ElSalvador #Venezuela #Deportation #Trump #Immigration #Crime #Data
‘Keep Him Where He Is’: How #Trump Ofcls Were Sent Scrambling to Cover Their Asses in the #KilmarAbregoGarcia Case
A Maryland man’s deportation to #ElSalvador set off a fierce debate among ofcls of 3 cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.
The Trump admin had deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador, even though a judge had issued a ruling expressly prohibiting that from happening.
#law #immigration #Rendition
#GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I08.piTL.n27B6-Ia0Kk7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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“There’s no question that the Foreign Agents law is about silencing those who expose corruption, human rights violations, and secretive negotiations with gang leaders by the Bukele government.” #ElSalvador
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/23/el-salvador-foreign-agents-law-targets-civil-society-media
U.S. agents suspected Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders. Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.
#News #ElSalvador #Trump #Bukele #USAID #Politics #Government #Crime
A federal appeals court ordered the return of another man deported to #ElSalvador in violation of a #CourtOrder. Jordin Melgar-Salmeron was deported on May 7, 30 minutes after the court ruled.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25982192/melgarorder062425.pdf
#law #immigration #rendition #Trump #EmilBove #DOJ #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
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#DOJ has confirmed that once #KilmarAbregoGarcia is released, #ICE fully intends to begin removal proceedings to send him to a "third country," not #ElSalvador — the definition of #rendition.
There's no timeline for the process & the DOJ *lawyer* [those left are willing to go along w/ #EmilBove] claims it's not "imminent."
#law #immigration #Trump #judiciary
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-26-2025#00000197-ad66-d131-ab9f-bde6f1a00000
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#DOJ says it intends to try #KilmarAbregoGarcia on *smuggling*
#Trump’s *Justice* Dept said Thurs that it intends to try Garcia on federal smuggling charges in Tennessee before it moves to deport him to a country that is not his native #ElSalvador.
“This defendant has been charged with *horrific crimes*, including trafficking children, & will not walk free in our country again,” DOJ propagandist Chad Gilmartin told AP.
#immigration #law #propaganda #rendition
https://apnews.com/article/kilmar-abrego-garcia-maryland-tennessee-charges-deportation-c96844906793b35a80f9bbb4afa07e94?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-26-Breaking+News
Calling from a Texas detention center, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas told his wife to hit record:
“They detained me simply because of my tattoos. I am not a criminal.”
“Just in case something happens to me, so you can be aware.”
A month later, he was gone.
https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-deportees-trump-immigration-asylum-el-salvador?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #Trump #Deportation #ICE #ElSalvador #Venezuela
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away.
These are their stories.
https://projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-immigrants-trump-deported-cecot/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #CECOT #Immigration #Immigrants #Venezuela #ElSalvador #Trump #Deportation #ICE
After being released from Salvadoran prison CECOT, Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra says he was relieved to be home with his family but felt traumatized.
“There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-immigrant-cecot-release-story?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #Venezuela #ElSalvador #Immigrants #Deportation #ICE
Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in #CECOT
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We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT in #ElSalvador by the #Trump administration.
Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw.
All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.
#News #HumanRights #Prison #Immigration #Government
https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump