US deportations raise 'serious concerns': UN rights chief
- U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned about the Trump administration's use of the Salvadoran megaprison, CECOT, for detaining immigrants without due process, potentially for life.
- The Trump administration's agreement with El Salvador to detain immigrants is facing legal challenges in both countries, especially concerning due process rights.
- Families of detainees reported feelings of powerlessness, as many have been labeled as terrorists without trial or legal representation.
- Individuals deported to CECOT lack access to legal counsel and have no clear path to regain their freedom, leading to potential human rights violations.
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After Trump’s deportations, Venezuelan families struggle to bring their loved ones home from El Salvador
“My brother has never committed a crime in Venezuela or elsewhere. His only mistake has been to enter the United States as a migrant. He has been labeled as a Tren de Aragua member just because of his tattoos.”
Letter: Immigration crackdown fractures U.S. rule of law | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The Trump administration is arresting people without notice and flying them to El Salvador, whose government is paid to imprison these alleged criminals in a notoriously brutal prison. The fiction that the U.S. is not responsible is nonsense. When you pay someone to perform an act and participate in its performance, you are responsible.
They fear that the number of deportees will skyrocket in July
Although there have been no mass deportations from the United States, this scenario is expected to change after July, when the Congress of that country approves more resources for its migration policy, said the Washington Office for Latin American Affairs (WOLA).
U.S. Lining Up More Countries to Take Its Deportees
New York Times: “The expansion of the administration’s third-country deportation program appears to have two aims in the service of its overarching goal to remove millions of immigrants from the United States, including both undocumented immigrants and those who have legal status but are viewed as undesirable by the administration.” “The first seems largely tactical: It creates a process to remove migrants whose countries of origin don’t want th…
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