In one more disgusting show within the Oval Workplace, President Donald Trump stated he needs to ship U.S. residents to El Salvador’s notoriously violent jail the place he is at the moment sending immigrants with out due course of and towards court docket orders.
Throughout his Monday assembly with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, Trump was caught on digicam saying that “homegrowns are next” to be despatched to CECOT, the Salvadoran jail the place individuals 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 build about five more places. It’s not big enough,” Trump advised Bukele, apparently referring to U.S. residents who he needs 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 are criminals, and if they hit people with baseball bats over the head, if they rape 87-year-old women, yeah. Yeah. That includes them. I’m 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 USA, people who find themselves incarcerated are nonetheless protected by the Structure. The eighth Modification prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment,” and the 14th Modification says that states can not “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
In keeping with Human Rights Watch, CECOT’s situations are abhorrent, with members having witnessed “cases of torture, ill-treatment, incommunicado detention, severe violations of due process and inhumane conditions, such as lack of access to adequate healthcare and food.”
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 physical abuse.”
“Prison conditions before the state of exception were harsh and life threatening due to gross overcrowding; inadequate sanitary conditions; insufficient food and water shortages; a lack of medical services in prison facilities; and physical attacks. The addition of 72,000 detainees under the state of exception exacerbated the problem. Human rights organizations reported that as of August 22, more than 70 detainees died in prisons from violence, insufficient medical care, and chronic health conditions,” the State Division’s report stated.
Trump and his MAGA minions have taken perverse pleasure in sending tons of 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 USA.
And regardless of the Supreme Court docket upholding a decrease court docket’s order for Trump to convey 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.
“This is sickening. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was here legally. Trump illegally sent him to a prison in El Salvador, and the administration admitted it was a mistake. The Supreme Court ORDERED his return, but Trump has refused. If they can do this to him, they can do it to anyone,” Democratic Rep. Linda Sanchez of California wrote on X.
If Trump is refusing to adjust to court docket orders to return immigrants from El Salvador, who’s to say he gained’t ship journalists or political adversaries there subsequent?
