
The Trump administration has spent $ 6 million to the hundreds of people intentionally disappear in a foreign prison where they are being done, without pay, in solid circumstances.
The outer surface of the terrorist detention center arrives when the Minister of Internal Security, Christie Nom, arrived in Ticoloca, El Salvador, on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
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After the deportation of 238 Venezuelan immigrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador-possible In violation of court orders – the Trump administration raised Unprecedented confrontation With the judicial branch to defend its ability to deport migrants without providing any evidence in court. call The secrets of the state are a privilege– Who allows the government to block evidence to protect national security interests Judge James Boasberg Temporary restrictions (TRO).
This deportation effort is a clear attack on civil freedoms and legal procedures rights. It also represents a darker teacher: the United States government is now working in the field of smuggling migrants in the global market.
On March 15, the Trump administration struck An agreement worth $ 6 million With the President of El Salvadori Naeb, the government, where the government was circulating 238 people to store it for a year at Centro De Confinamiento del Terrorismo – Cecot – the.The jewel of the crownFrom the local security platform in Bukele and where the prison sentences are And according to what was not namedWith no possibility to issue. Despite continuous legal intervention, the administration has multiplied since then. On March 26, the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice sought to the ruling of the Federal Appeal Court to allow them to do so Resuming deportation to El SalvadorThe Minister of Internal Security, Christie, visited the country to take a tour of Cecot and deepen the administration’s relationship with Bukele. In another operation overnight at the end of last week, the United States 17 other people have been deported To El Salvador, using a different legal mechanism to wander in TRO Judge Boasberg.
The country’s partnership with El Salvador is designed to record cheap political points and marginal financial gains, at the tremendous moral cost to reduce people to trading commodities in the global market. Even after admitting this They illegally deported the father of Maryland Who has already been granted a protected position by a migration judge, the Trump administration said it could not return it to the home because now in foreign reservation – however, the executive branch gives priority to its commercial relationship with Alafador on compliance with American law.
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Play BUKELE, Trump and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio Horrible videos Among the men who drive from American aircraft with chains linking their ankles and wrists, some of whom press each of the armed guards on both their necks. Upon arrival at CECOT, their heads were shaved and forced to get the white prison costume. Now, they are Spend 23.5 hours a day In crowded cages this number from about 80 to 100 people, as they sleep on metal sidewalks without ranks. They will be recruited soon in the expression of El Salvador.Zero“The program, a mysterious work system requires More than 40,000 Persons imprisoned for building infrastructure and manufacturing commercial goods and agricultural products.
There is a familiar word for forced imprisonment: slavery. The Trump administration has spent millions of dollars in taxes to disappear hundreds of people on purpose – No criminal record and Most likely there is no gang affiliation– In a foreign prison where they are working, without pay, in Talted circumstances For explicit economic benefit Dictator is self -defeated. Bukele recently boasted that the deal would help make his country Shahira brutal Prison system “Self -sustainable“Acknowledging that he sees these new arrivals as more than one bodies capable of his vast machines.
By supporting and filling a modern punitive colony, Trump revived the international slave trade. The United States will benefit from this deal as well. It costs the United States Almost $ 60,000 For one person in the local migrant detention center for a year but much less in Cecot, where the price reaches about $ 25,000 per person. In general, the federal government is expected to provide $ 8.3 million with this deal, with the additional reward of isolating people geographically from Critical legal protection Which – which It has passed Trump’s deportation on local soil. By renting the dissolved infrastructure from a foreign country, Trump can replace Physical restrictions From the ability of American detention. As Nayyim Declare When she visits Cecot, “This attachment is one of the tools in the group of our tools that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people,” which indicates a clear desire to pursue arrangements for similar normal formations.
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To maintain its rapid expansion under this new authoritarian regime, the American bomber has now spread outside the borders of the country itself.
This is the culmination of long and shameful history, as the American criminal legal system has always been a site for the economic exploitation approved by the state and the capitalism. We do not need to look further than the rise Supported from private stocksPrison -making for profit. This includes everything from Special prison operators (Those who are now running immigration detention centers in the first place) to More than 4000 companies That uses slave workers in prison in their supply chain or contract with Carceral facilities to benefit from its captive market, including selling new monitoring and monitoring technologies that can be worn to track biological and site measurement data.
US It is already issued by its sacrifice logicCultures and materially – The world, starting with Military police tactics To very profitable 230 billion dollars Arms trade. But this exchange with El Salvador offers a new market in the globalized sacrifice economy: the imprisoned migrant trade.
It is difficult not to read the deal with El Salvador as part of a larger agenda to use state violence to transform free workers, especially migrants, into market commodities. Trump’s collective deportation plans are already threatening The American economy disrupted By targeting immigrants who work largely Low wage jobs Which forms the backbone of the construction, agriculture and hospitality sectors. Immigrants were forced to leave the free labor market by arresting ice, and instead in private detention centers – and now in El Salvadouri Prison – to fulfill their new economic role: as Prisoner workers To obtain corporate profit, or as criminal bodies that can be held and deported to make financial gains. Since industries-including workers born in the United States-are playing the consequences of this deportation system, companies are likely to be Lack of labor With forced prison work.
Persons imprisoned are already forced to fill the current work gaps in dangerous circumstances, including Fight forest fires and Hurricane management and other natural disasters; During the Covid-19s, this extended to Manufacturing personal protection equipment and collective graves. Criminal population prison, including immigrants, is Millions of dollars industry– TROMP collective deportations simply introduce a much darker chapter in the story of American capitalism.
Although Trump tries the flame of the global economy by imposing a customs tariff and abandoning foreign aid of poor and warm countries, he allowed the humanitarian exclusion of his international trade policy.
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It remains to see whether the other countries will be stimulated to follow their example by providing their own facilities on the occasion of the victims of the Trump deportation system – although it is worrying to be a criminal program for his collective agent. I was already affected Other Latin American leaders. We are still waiting for the last word of the courts on whether these men will be returned home.
But this is what we know now: Two weeks ago, the United States government sold 238 Venezuelan immigrants to punitive slavery. On Sunday, 17 other immigrants joined them, who were deported in light of unnecessary allegations – including a Prosecutor leadership In a lawsuit against the Ministry of Internal Security. These are men parents. Some factory workers Or entertainment football players. One is an asylum for gay and Make -up artist. Another, a barber. And one until a Professional goalkeeper. Their families cannot understand the reason they take them and call them desperate.
Trump and a representative wants to disappear these men from our public awareness and reduce them to criminals, goods and slaves. But we have a commitment to get to know their humanity, and to ask for their return and freedom. Because if we do not do that, who will come after that?