After spending four months incarcerated in El Salvador’s notoriously brutal prison system after President Donald Trump’s administration wrongfully sent them there, recently freed Venezuelan migrant men are speaking out about the abuse and torture they endured in the foreign gulag. The over 250 Venezuelan migrants the Trump administration deported to …
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In early June, a career journalist in El Salvador received a call from a government source. Their name was on a list of more than a dozen individuals the administration of President Nayib Bukele planned to have arrested. “I left the country the next morning,” they tell Rolling Stone. “I …
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It’s been nearly two months since the Supreme Court ordered Donald Trump to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom his administration illegally deported to the notorious prison system in El Salvador. On Friday, the Trump administration finally complied with this directive, returning Abrego Garcia to the United …
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El Salvador’s National Civil Police have arrested Ruth Eleonora López, a renowned human rights and anti-corruption attorney who has become one of the nation’s most prominent critics of President Nayib Bukele’s regime. According to representatives from Cristosal, the human rights group where López serves as Chief Legal Officer for Anti-Corruption; …
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen defended the Constitution and fired back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fellow Democrat, who said that the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident, to El Salvador was “the distraction of the day.” “I don’t think it’s ever wrong to fight for the …
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) traveled to El Salvador this week to get answers about the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man Donald Trump’s administration illegally sent to a mega-prison in the Central American nation and is now refusing to bring back to the U.S. despite a Supreme …
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Donald Trump’s deportation agenda has drawn its focus around Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man the administration illegally shipped to an infamous torture prison in El Salvador — an action they admitted was a mistake, citing an “administrative error.” The Supreme Court has since ruled that the administration must bring …
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President Donald Trump welcomed El Salvador’s president and self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele to the White House on Monday amid a backdrop of controversy and court battles over his administration’s shipment of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador’s notorious prison system without due process. While taking questions from the …
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President Donald Trump and his administration are acting like they don’t need to listen to the Supreme Court — even going so far as to publicly pretend the high court told them they have no obligation to send back a man they illegally shipped to El Salvador’s infamous torture prison. …
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Days after the Supreme Court ordered Donald Trump to “facilitate” the return of a man his administration illegally shipped to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador — allegedly the result of an “administrative error” — Trump’s administration is saying it has no responsibility to actually bring him home. Trump said …
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