"Half of America fetishizes and perseverates in its discontent over these sleights. How dare they make a movie where the fictional mermaid is a black girl! ...

This avalanche of trauma was piled onto him because the luckiest people in the history of the world were convinced that the immigrant down the street might eat their cat."

Video link is below.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySsBj3OOg0

Miller writes,

"It’s hard not to contrast Andry’s mercy and forbearance with the small, sad grievances that dominate America’s political life today. Our current regime is powered by anger at a hundred perceived sleights: too many brown people at Harvard; a book with gay penguins; a swimmer who didn’t get the 4th place trophy she felt she deserved; having less than the Joneses."

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Meanwhile, a comparison of the documents covering #ElSalvador shows the #Trump admin downplaying the country’s history of #prison #violence, emphasizing that there has been a reduction overall while stating that purported deaths were under govt review. Trump has expressed fondness for El Salvador’s president, Nayib #Bukele, & hosted him in the Oval Office earlier this year after the admin secured an agreement to deport people to the country’s notorious #CECOT megaprison.

The #State Department’s previous report for #ElSalvador, documenting 2023, identified “significant #HumanRights issues” there — including government-sanctioned #killings, instances of #torture, & “harsh & life-threatening #prison conditions.”

Several #Venezuelans whom the #Trump admin sent to [#CECOT] the Salvadoran prison said they were subjected to repeated beatings.

"We found a dozen or so had criminal records abroad and included those in our comprehensive database, too.

Nearly half, 118 of the more than 230 men, including [Juan José Ramos] Ramos, came to the U.S. legally and were deported in the middle of their immigration cases."

A video linked below is included in Pro Publica's report.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ

Pro Publica reports on the men the US government sent to CECOT hell:

"Our reporting, a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case examination, shows how the government knew a majority of them had not been convicted of a crime in the U.S. — and only a few had serious convictions such as assault and gun possession."

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https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelans-cecot-el-salvador-trump-families-video

"So too did members of Congress in both parties. News organizations reported on conditions at the prison within days. We all knew what would happen to these men. ...

What do we owe him, and the 250 others who were thrown into that hellhole? The question is not just should he be apologized to and compensated for being a victim of this national shame, but how, and by whom?"

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"It became clear not long after the Trump administration deported more than 250 Venezuelans in March to an El Salvador megaprison that they would be abused, tortured, or worse. The White House surely knew it. So did administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who staged a repugnant photo op at the prison."

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The report adds,

"The Post has found that many of the detainees had entered the United States legally and were actively complying with U.S. immigration rules."

Adrian Carrasquillo asks what we owe Andry Hernández and the other prisoners.

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-do-we-owe-andry-cecot-el-salvador-venezuela

"Others emerged from the dark isolation room covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another returned to his cell in tears, telling fellow detainees he’d just been sexually assaulted.

'Let’s hit him like a piñata,' guards shouted amid the beatings, detainees recalled, the blows echoing against the metal walls."

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A Washington Post team interviews 16 Venezuelans the US sent to El Salvador's CECOT hell-hole, including gay makeup artist Andry Hernández. What the reporters hear about these men's CECOT experience is grim: daily beatings, broken teeth, dislocated arms, sexual assault.

"One detainee was beaten unconscious."

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/31/venezuelans-deported-us-el-salvador-prison-cecot/

The matching firsthand accounts across multiple interviews offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the mega prison, where inmates are denied access to lawyers & almost all contact with the outside world — & where about 14,000 Salvadorans remain incarcerated. Few detainees have ever left #CECOT, & fewer have spoken publicly of their experience there.

They called it “La Isla” — The Island — the cell where #Venezuelans *deported* from the #US by the #Trump admin said they suffered some of the worst #abuse of their 125 days in #ElSalvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or #CECOT.