Matt Gaetz was given a tour of the facility, which human rights groups have described as a ‘tropical gulag’ rife with abuses
Matt Gaetz visited the El Salvador mega-prison last summer and pitched the idea of sending migrants there to Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, according to a report.
Trump’s failed nominee to lead the Justice Department was invited on a diplomatic visit by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in July 2024, TIME reports.
Bukele made Gaetz an offer during a dinner that he would be willing to imprison migrants that Trump wanted removed from the U.S. inside El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, according to the outlet. The next day, Gaetz was given a tour of the facility, which human rights groups have described as a “tropical gulag” rife with abuses.
Perhaps we should send powerful politicians who sexually abuse children there.
Has anyone checked in on Nestor lately?
The best thing about being atheist is there is no hell. the worst thing about being atheist is there is no hell.
The optimist says we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears that the optimist is right.
He was very familiar with that “drained of hope” look because many of his ex-girlfriends had that same look
The oddest part of that comment is the idea that the owner of the most punchable face in (ex)politics had/has girlfriends… Besides, of course, any “girlfriends” that he paid handsomely for…
🙄 🤡 🖕
If they look, act, and quack like psychopaths…
why does it seem that Republicans are in particularly horrible human beings?
Because they are just after power and those lot are typically the worst of us.
All of these pieces of shit are treating it like a fucking zoo for the rich. I bet Trump floats Millionaire+ class asshats start paying for a visit, and Bukele abides.
I don’t know why I thought that was going to be a different ending, where it was him going there now and seeing things and being appalled. Turns out it was his idea. Sigh.
The US has a history of using death/suffering as a “deterrent” for illegal border crossings. It doesn’t really work that way, though.
Excerpts from Immigration and Naturalization Service “Border Patrol Strategic Plan 1994 and Beyond”:
The Border Patrol will improve control of the border by implementing a strategy of “prevention through deterrence.” The Border Patrol will achieve the goals of its strategy by bringing a decisive number of enforcement resources to bear in each major entry corridor. The Border Patrol will increase the number of agents on the line and make effective use of technology, raising the risk of apprehension high enough to be an effective deterrent.
The prediction is that with traditional entry and smuggling routes disrupted, illegal traffic will be deterred, or forced over more hostile terrain, less suited for crossing and more suited for enforcement. Mobility of enforcement resources will be essential in tracking illegal traffic to prevent local “hot spots” from becoming long-term problem areas.
They targetted safer passageways and funneled migrants through the Sonoran Desert, which promptly led to increased migrant deaths but an unchanged quantity of crossing attempts. It’s not like the migrants can afford to turn around and go home.
It makes sense that the logical next step in the death-making company is to buy a death machine since it’s “cheaper” than processing inviduals and sending them home to their deaths.
