When the media uses the phrase "deported to El Salvador", a reader might assume "Well, that's just President Trump doing what he was elected to do !"
But, like you said, deportation isn't what's happening here.
1) Deportation involves process.
2) Deportation just removes you to your country of origin, where you can at least try rebuild your life there. Deportation doesn't send you straight to prison.
What is happening is these people are just being sent straight to CECOT, a mega prison known for its human rights abuses. CECOT is not a correctional center. My understanding is it was built in response to El Salvador's gang problem to permanently remove suspected gang members from society.
With respect to the people the US sends, as far as I know, no one the US has sent to CECOT has been convicted of any crime or received a sentence from a judge. Since no one the US has sent is actually serving a prison sentence, there isn't any legal process in place for these people to ever leave CECOT.
Unless something changes in the future, the people the US sends there are essentially receiving life sentences with zero due process.
And, finally, to add insult to injury, in cases where the administration has admitted it wrongfully sent people, it is refusing to correct its error and at least get the people released from prison if not returned to the US as ordered.
In my opinion, the idea that the administration is just locking people up for life without any sort of judicial process and then refusing to correct mistakes should horrify all Americans.
I came here to say the same thing.
When the media uses the phrase "deported to El Salvador", a reader might assume "Well, that's just President Trump doing what he was elected to do !"
But, like you said, deportation isn't what's happening here.
1) Deportation involves process.
2) Deportation just removes you to your country of origin, where you can at least try rebuild your life there. Deportation doesn't send you straight to prison.
What is happening is these people are just being sent straight to CECOT, a mega prison known for its human rights abuses. CECOT is not a correctional center. My understanding is it was built in response to El Salvador's gang problem to permanently remove suspected gang members from society.
With respect to the people the US sends, as far as I know, no one the US has sent to CECOT has been convicted of any crime or received a sentence from a judge. Since no one the US has sent is actually serving a prison sentence, there isn't any legal process in place for these people to ever leave CECOT.
Unless something changes in the future, the people the US sends there are essentially receiving life sentences with zero due process.
And, finally, to add insult to injury, in cases where the administration has admitted it wrongfully sent people, it is refusing to correct its error and at least get the people released from prison if not returned to the US as ordered.
In my opinion, the idea that the administration is just locking people up for life without any sort of judicial process and then refusing to correct mistakes should horrify all Americans.