Summary
A 60 Minutes investigation revealed that 75% of the 238 Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s Cecot prison have no criminal records.
Only 22% had non-violent offenses, and about a dozen face serious charges.
The administration used wartime authority under the Alien Enemies Act to justify the move, despite a federal judge calling the action “bad faith.”
DHS defended the deportations, claiming many migrants are uncharged criminals. Critics, including the ACLU, warn the process bypasses due process and sets a dangerous legal precedent.
I mean, there’s already the one guy they sent by “mistake” and "can’t get back."But frankly, without due process, everyone they’re sending are “non criminals”, which is weird way to say “people who should be presumed innocent until found guilty 8n a court of law by a jury of their peers.”
That’s exactly it. The right wing base sees due process as a barrier to prosecuting criminals, because they don’t understand that, in reality, you cannot legitimately call someone a criminal without following the agreed-upon process to define them that way in the first place. It’s too much work to think before acting.
Just normalizing the typical fascist mindset, collapsing the logic: “They deserve deportation because
they’re a criminal, and they’re a criminal becauseI said so.”