The Trump administration has spent $6 million to deny hundreds of people to foreign prisons, where they are made to work without wages on conditions of torture.
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On Wednesday, March 26th, 2025, Homeland Security Secretary Christi Noem arrived in Tekolka, El Salvador, and the exterior of the terrorist confinement center.
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After deporting 238 Venezuelan immigrants to the infamous MegaPrison in El Salvador –probably The Trump administration caused it in violation of court orders An unprecedented showdown In the judicial department that advocates the ability to deport immigrants without presenting evidence in court. call State Secret Privileges-This allows the government to withhold evidence to protect its national security interests. Judge James Boasberg Temporary suppression order (TRO).
This deportation effort constitutes a clear attack on civil liberties and rights to legitimate processes. It also undoubtedly represents a dark milestone. The US government is currently operating migrant trafficking operations in global markets.
On March 15th, the Trump administration struck A $6 million contract “The government exchanged 238 people for the government to acquire a warehouse at Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo for a year,” he said, “Naive Buquere, President of Salvador, whom the government exchanged 238 people.Crown Jewel“Where is Bukel’s deep anti-ethnic domestic security platform and where is its prison sentence? It is reportedly indefinitelythere is no possibility of release. Despite ongoing legal intervention, the administration has doubled. On March 26, DOJ’s lawyers sought a federal court of appeals ruling. Resuming deportation to El SalvadorSecretary of Homeland Security Christie Noem visited the country and toured CECOT to deepen his administration’s ties with Bukere. And after another overnight surgery last weekend, the US Another 17 people were deported In El Salvador, use another legal mechanism to avoid Judge Boasberg’s Toro.
The country’s partnership with El Salvador is designed to acquire cheap political points and marginal financial benefits at the great moral cost of reducing people to tradeable goods in the global market. Even after admitting it They illegally deported their Maryland father The Trump administration, already granted a position protected by an immigration judge, said he cannot take him home because he is currently under foreign custody.
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To maintain rapid expansion under this new authoritarian regime, the American body state is currently translocating beyond the boundaries of the state itself.
This is the culmination of a long and shameful history in which the American criminal legal system was always a site of state-sanctioned economic exploitation and capitalist interests. We don’t need to look ahead of the rise of Private Equity Backfor-profit prison industry. This includes everything Private prison operator (Currently, we mainly operate immigration detention centres) Over 4,000 companies This contracts to benefit from the prison market, including using prison slave labor in the supply chain or using contracts with physical facilities to sell new wearable surveillance and surveillance technology to track biometric and location data.
US Already exporting calsal logic– Culturally and materially – Repeat the world of range Militarized policing tactics To be extremely profitable $23 billion Arms trade. However, this exchange with El Salvador introduces a new market sector into the globalized physical economy, the trade of imprisoned immigrants.
It is not difficult to read a deal with El Salvador as part of a larger agenda for using state violence to convert primarily migrant free workers into market commodities. Trump’s massive deportation plan is already under threat It will disrupt the US economy By targeting mostly working migrants Low wage jobs It forms the backbone of the construction, agriculture and hospitality sectors. The migrants who were kicked out of the free labor market due to ice arrests are instead jailed in a privately run detention center and now play a new economic role in a Salvador prison. Incarcerated workers As a criminal organization that may be detained or deported for the benefit of a corporation or for financial gain. And since industries that include American-born workers meet the outcome of this deportation regime, companies are likely to do so. Filling out labor shortages Forced prison labor.
Incarcerated people are forced to fill existing labor gaps in already dangerous situations. Fighting wildfires and Hurricanes and other natural disaster managementDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, this has been extended to PPE manufacturing and excavation mass graves. The imprisonment of criminals, including immigrants, is Billion dollar industry– Trump’s massive deportation simply introduces a new, much darker chapter in the story of American Calsal capitalism.
He has allowed human exceptions to international trade policy, despite Trump trying to torch the world economy by slaying tariffs and abandoning foreign aid to the poor and war-torn countries.
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It is still unclear whether other countries will be encouraged to follow the lawsuit by providing their own physical facilities to accommodate victims of Trump’s deportation regime, but I am concerned that Bukere’s mass crime program has Already affected Other Latin American leaders. And we are still waiting for the final words from the court as to whether these men can be brought home.
But here is what we know now. Two weeks ago, the US government sold 238 Venezuelan immigrants to prison slavery. On Sunday, a further 17 migrants joined them and were deported under unfounded allegations. Chief Plaintiff in existing lawsuits against the Department of Homeland Security. These guys are father. Some are factory workers Or recreational soccer player. One is gay asylum seekers and a Makeup artist. Another, a Barber. And even one Professional goalkeeper. Their family is unable to understand why they were taken and desperately calls for their return.
Trump and Bukel want to erase these men from our public consciousness and reduce them to criminals, commodities and slaves. But we are obligated to recognize their humanity and to demand their return and freedom. If not, who else will come?