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Note that the headline is misleading. Trump isn’t talking about “deportations” to a country of origin, but exile/sale to a brutal prison system in El Salvador.

Who has jurisdiction over these prisoners? Apparently, no one. The goal is to disappear them into a legal black hole.

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Calling CECOT a prison does a lot of heavy lifting. People are kept 20+ to a cell, without even basic amenities like running water or mattresses. The salvadoran government openly states that nobody will ever be released from the 'prison' [1]. These conditions are harsher than even the conditions nazis kept victims of the holocaust in. It is overtly a death camp, which the salvadoran government built as a backward way of getting rid of poor people by exterminating them rather than meaningful policy to improve the lives of it's citizens.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-81749d7c-d0a0-48d0-... 'El Salvador’s authorities have stated that they do not expect Cecot’s prisoners to ever be released.'

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