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[quote=Anonymous]The photographer who witnessed US residents from Venezuela being sent to prison in El Salvador explains what it looked like as they entered the country. These men are the folks Trump sent to a notorious prison for what could be a lifetime sentence, in violation of orders from a judge who told the Justice Dept to turn around any planes in the air. 
Trump and Vance used a 1798 law that's only been used in wartime to deny these people the chance to defend themselves in court. 
Politically, Trump was brilliant - he said they were gang members. None of us wants a gang member in the country. But DOJ refused to even tell the judge their names, much less offer any proof that they are gang members. 
And the Post says: Robert Cena, an acting ICE field director, wrote in a court filing that  “many” of those deported under the act do not have criminal records in the US.
[i]From the Time essay by the photojournalist: [/i]
For a Venezuelan plucked from America, it must have appeared dystopian—police and soldiers for miles and miles in woodland darkness....
The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.” I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster.
Inside the intake room, a sea of trustees descended on the men with electric shavers, stripping heads of hair with haste. The guy who claimed to be a barber began to whimper, folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell. He was slapped. The man asked for his mother, then buried his face in his chained hands and cried as he was slapped again.
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https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/[/b]

and The Washington Post story about 4 Texans without criminal records who were taken: [b]https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/18/trump-migrants-venezuelans-deportation-bukele/[/b][/quote]

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