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According to new court documents filed on Wednesday as part of a lawsuit his wife brought against the Trump administration, Mr Ábrego García and 20 other detainees were repeatedly beaten when they arrived at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Centre, or Cecot.
Once there, according to the documents, Mr Ábrego García and 20 other deported inmates “were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation”.
Mr Ábrego García has also alleged that he and the other prisoners were “forced to kneel” from 9 PM to 6 AM, “with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion”.
At one point, guards allegedly threatened to confine him with gang members who would “tear” him apart.
His mistreatment led to him losing 30lbs (14kg) within the first two weeks of his incarceration in El Salvador, according to the complaint.
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Daily reminder to all ICE agents. By signing up for ICE, you have signed yourself up for a lifetime of fear and criminal liability. There are Nazi concentration camp guards that were tried for their crimes in their 90s. There is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. Your names are recorded; your deeds are known. And you will face justice for your crimes. And do not count on a blanket pardon saving you. Crimes against humanity are violations of international law that cannot be pardoned.
It would be nice to imagine ICE hunters, years from now, hunting those traitors to humanity down, one after the other, no matter where they escape.
I think there are a whole lot of young US citizens right now watching their own relatives being deported, sometimes leaving them as orphans. ICE is creating a generation of ICE hunters that will chase them down to the ends of the Earth.
At its peak, there were 8.5 million members of the Nazi party. Less than 7000 Nazis ever faced convictions for their actions.
Just in case you thought we lived in some fairy tale world where evil people always see consequences for their actions, rather than the real world we live in where the overwhelming majority of them don’t.
The most likely outcome is that ICE agents are going to live long lives, with upper-middle, or even lower-upper, class incomes and pensions, and will never lose a moment of sleep over what they do.
Joining ICE isn’t joining the Republican party. Joining ICE is joining the SS. But still, you’re right, the vast majority will go unpunished.
You’re not wrong, but I think their point is that once the trials start, these people never know if they’re going to get away with it or not until they die.
Exactly. The prosecutions of people in their 90s were mostly low-level guards in concentration camps. So there is no comfort in knowing you were just a rank-and-file ICE agent. And it’s not like they can argue they don’t know what they’re doing is wrong. If you’re covering your face while working in law enforcement, you know damn well what you’re doing is morally unforgivable. These people are not going to be able to plead ignorance. They know what they’re doing is wrong.
And they need to feel fear every day of their lives. Just like the people they are terrorizing now, they need to live in fear that any day, a knock on their door might come that will tear their whole live apart. They need to know the fear they took so much glee in instilling in others.
I mean, yeah. I’m glad he’s suing, this is bullshit and never should have happened at all; this would be grounds for impeachment and worse in a sane world. That said, we all kind of knew this, right? Donald even bragged about it at one point; the cruelty is the whole point.
This is exactly why they tried not to bring him back, and I really thought he might end up dead rather than coming home. People who come back talk about the crimes going on down there.
