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Trump Sent Men to Torture in El Salvador, Report Confirms

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Beatings. Sexual assault. Psychological abuse. These are some of the horrors endured by the more than 250 men the United States sent to El Salvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, according to a new comprehensive report released on Wednesday by Human Rights Watch and Cristosal, a human rights group focused on Central America. In […]

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“What They Did There Was Torture Us”

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After a few hours in the air, Neri Alvarado Borges and the other Venezuelans on a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight landed in Honduras. Alvarado was hopeful. He had been detained by ICE in Texas in early February. Told he could face years in detention, he agreed to be deported. It was March […]

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“We Were Kidnapped”

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On Friday, María Daniela learned that her younger brother, Neri Alvarado Borges, and more than 200 other Venezuelans sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador were being released after spending more than four months in an infamous prison. “Now it’s done,” María Daniela said in a call from Venezuela. “Now we can say we […]

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Supreme Court Again Halts Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Deportations

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In a 7-2 ruling on Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court once again barred the Trump administration from removing Venezuelans held at Texas immigration detention centers under the Alien Enemies Act, which gives the government extraordinary powers to summarily deport noncitizens during a “declared war” or “invasion.” The justices found that the federal government violated the […]

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“A Mockery of Due Process”: The Men Who Could Be Sent to El Salvador Next

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As the bus drove away from the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, in Anson, Texas, on April 18, Stiven Prieto Viera feared he was headed to El Salvador. Prieto, a Venezuelan barber detained last month by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, knew that the Trump administration had already sent hundreds of his compatriots to that country’s infamous […]

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“He’s So Scared”: More Venezuelans Face Imminent Deportation Under the Alien Enemies Act

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On Friday, Omar Cárdenas Martínez called a relative from the Bluebonnet detention center in Texas to say that he had just been given a notice. Cárdenas had arrived there earlier this week, after being transferred from another US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, Prairieland, about three hours away in Alvarado. The document stated that […]

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US and El Salvador Celebrate Their Refusal to Return Man Wrongly Deported to “Gulag”

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On Monday, a month after the United States government shipped more than 230 Venezuelans and other migrants to a mega-prison in El Salvador with seemingly no chance of return, President Trump extended the red carpet to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. It was a brazen show of solidarity between the two leaders. The White House meeting […]

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