Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he suffered severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation and psychological torture in the notorious El Salvador prison the Trump administration had deported him to in March, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
He said he was kicked and hit so often after arrival that by the following day, he had visible bruises and lumps all over his body. He said he and 20 others were forced to kneel all night long and guards hit anyone who fell.
I feel so bad for this man, because even if he’s acquitted of all the charges, the insane right wingers will never let him have peace. They’ll hound him and his family forever.
Heck, even if he is guilty and the jury determines as such, it’s still not an excuse to torture him to death either.
Too many Americans seriously believe failure to carry state documentation makes you legally a non-person. And being undocumented while brown flags you as part of an invading army.
He’s no better than an Arab, a Russian, or one of the dreaded Chinese and deserves to die in misery as an example to others
This is exactly why they didn’t want him to return, and charged him the minute he landed. This story will be testimony for the cruel and unusual punishment that the US has subjected 275+ migrants to with the deportations to CECOT. We just need them to get it in front of SCOTUS.
I also can’t imagine this will bode well for Bukele, given that El Salvador is a member of the ICC, and these actions are very clearly forbidden by the Rome Statute.
We just need them to get it in front of SCOTUS.
What do you think that would accomplish? Case gets to SCOTUS, SCOTUS rules the administration was 100% correct, they are all terrorists, and anyone who defended them is also able to be denaturalized and deported to CECOT.
Ten bucks nothing happens.
No thanks. I don’t need to waste my money.
Remember when Trump swore he was a member of “MS13” and our “news media” helped him out by publishing obviously photoshopped pictures of his hands with “MS13” tattooed on his knuckles?
Let’s get some follow-up pictures of his hands and see if that tattoo is still there.
It’s a torture camp, explicitly known for being a torture camp, and used by Trump’s administration for that purpose.
“Coming to the US? We might pay El Salvador to torture you.”
His own lawyer requested to keep him in jail because they fear the moment he is released he will be immediately deported again.
Our system is so broken that sitting in jail is preferable to being on release because of DHS.
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Not voting will surely help.
I’m doing my didn’t!
Voting didn’t. We ended up with a guy who invited an insurrection.
So “not voting” must surely be the answer.
Hey, jackass. I voted for Harris
The pound is that it wouldn’t have mattered because by that time the Dems had fucked up so bad they had to switch their candidate mid race
That’s what fucking happened.
Not voting happens in every election with the same fucking results. We just happened to have Hitler 2.0 to take advantage of it.
Think before you type
Hey, Jackass, then I’m not talking about you am I? 🙄
Its nice when people make it obvious you should just block them.
They’re so terrible at it that they’ll have to learn in the next 18 months. It’s gonna get worse.
That’s true. Unfortunately the Democrats have been practically useless but as I’m beginning to see they have always been kind of practically useless
it’s not just democrats; it’s americans in general. they have a difficult time accepting that they’ve been propagandized so thoroughly, they even deleted the comment you’re responding to for trolling even though it’s 100% the truth.
Yeah thats also a problem. Living in the Imperial core definitely has some disadvantages.
– but not for enough people to cause change.
I disagree. Plenty of people want change but just don’t know where to go.
I’m creating a local communist group to help with that. 😄
Cheers comrade
So many people will hopefully sue and get settlements down the line, i just wish the global community could punish the US for all this bullshit
If a Presidential candidate ran on the platform of “we’re going to join the Hauge, and give up our veto power at the UN” I would vote for them.
Eh… We just need to get rid of veto powers and have an actual enforcement arm.
Right? The Federation is a long shot but we’re not even getting the backstory from The Expanse at this point
Speedrun to getting assassinated by the CIA
This problem was made by the US for the US. World cannot save US from themselves. Just as US does not have any jurisdiction over El Salvador. They are just exploiting it for personal psychopathy. Which is a step beyond even Hitler.
Can’t sue. They were “official acts”. So, everyone in the federal government who is a Reich Winger has qualified immunity for anything they do.
The official acts ruling refers only to criminal charges, not civil suits. (afaik, idoanal, etc)
idoanal
😂
Qualified immunity applies to civil suits as well. Which is why we cannot sue cops.
You don’t have to be on the Left to not be on the Reich
I feel like a lot of people miss this point
I feel like anyone working in concert with a fascist state is a part of the fascist state. I feel like a lot of people miss this point.
Nuremberg
First has to be a WWIII…
The supreme court’s ruling about official acts only applies to the president. (The president does have pardon powers for others, but pardon powers aren’t new.)
So, we all know that the entire administration can get away with whatever they like, and only Donald as the arbitrator of what is legal then, right?
They can point to their made-up laws and/or their made-up following of the laws and say that they can get away with whatever they like, but that doesn’t mean we have to let them.
