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Database Records, Detainees, Due Process -- All "Disappeared," per Donald's Orders [1]
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Date: 2025-03-25
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News-cycles will change, with each new chaos-ridden day.
Yet some things — some Trump-ordered acts — have a way of becoming “frozen in time” ...
Immigrants disappear from US detainee tracking system after deportation flights
apnews.com — Mar 19, 2025
Franco Caraballo called his wife Friday night, crying and panicked. Hours earlier, the 26-year-old barber and dozens of other Venezuelan migrants at a federal detention facility in Texas were dressed in white clothes, handcuffed and taken onto a plane. He had no idea where he was going. Twenty-four hours later, Caraballo’s name disappeared from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s online detainee locator .
[...] Ali David Navas Vizcaya had been in U.S. detention since early 2024, when he was stopped at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing where he had an appointment to talk to immigration officers . He called her late Friday and said he thought he was being deported to Venezuela or Mexico. [...] His name is no longer in ICE’s system. She said he has no criminal record and suspects he may have been mistakenly identified as a Tren de Aragua member because of several tattoos.
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abcnews.go.com — Mar 18, 2025
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Many of the noncitizens who were deported pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act on Saturday did not have criminal records in the United States, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said in a sworn filing overnight. In a sworn declaration, ICE Acting Field Office Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations Robert Cerna argued that "the lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose" and "demonstrates that they are terrorists with regard to whom we lack a complete profile."
[...] The admission that many of the men lacked criminal records – and were deported on the assumption that they might be terrorists – comes as top Trump administration officials insist that the men were violent criminals, with President Donald Trump labeling them "monsters."
What to know about Tom Homan, the former ICE head returning as Trump's 'border czar'
www.npr.org — Nov 11, 2024
Homan was behind Trump's controversial family separation policy [Tom] Homan was the face of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration during his tenure as acting director of ICE from January 2017 to June 2018. During that time, he often appeared at White House press briefings to defend his agents' arrests of undocumented immigrants and call for stronger enforcement, according to CNN, and applauded Trump for "taking the shackles off" ICE by allowing agents to make a broader range of arrests. Notably, Homan was one of the architects behind its controversial family separation policy. More than 5,500 children of immigrants were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018 under the administration's short-lived "Zero Tolerance" policy. According to the Department of Homeland Security, as of April, there were still 1,401 children without confirmed reunification.
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They have a knack at making human rights “go away” … never to be heard from again. Meet Homan’s updated version of “Kid in Cages” ...
www.aclu-nm.org — Mar 17, 2025
SANTA FE, NM — At a press conference held at the State Capitol today, a coalition of immigrants' rights advocates announced the submission of a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security challenging the "disappearance" of 48 New Mexico residents. The coalition also called on New Mexico legislators to urgently advance two bills that would help protect immigrant New Mexicans: HB 9 (Immigrant Safety Act) and SB 250 (No State & Local Resources for Immigration Enforcement Act). New Mexicans were apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during operations last week in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Roswell. According to an ICE press release, the majority had no criminal record . The complaint submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico noted that ICE has not disclosed their identities, whereabouts, detention conditions, or whether they have access to legal counsel or are being afforded due process — effectively causing them to vanish from public knowledge.
[...] "When I was detained, my family had no idea where I was for days,” said Edwin Jesus Garcia Castillo, who was formerly detained at the Torrance County Detention Facility. “ That feeling of being erased from the world — it’s terrifying. These 48 people and their families are going through that right now. No one should face this kind of treatment in America."
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ICE has their methods ...
They were arrested during routine ICE check-ins. Then they disappeared.
www.washingtonpost.com — Mar 22, 2025
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Well, “disappeared” — to the Trump regime — appears to be a relative term … Because they know exactly where those Planes have illegally sent them:
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The Center for Terrorism Confinement, to give it its full name, is considered the largest prison in the Americas – with a capacity of 40,000 inmates – and has been the biggest symbol in the Latin American country’s controversial crackdown on domestic crime. It is now home to some of the country’s most hardened criminals, including mass murderers and gang members billed as the “worst of the worst” and is notorious for the spartan conditions in which they are kept. In a recent visit, CNN’s David Culver and his team described cells “built to hold 80 or so inmates” where men are held for 23.5 hours a day and “the only furniture is tiered metal bunks, with no sheets, pillows or mattresses … an open toilet, a cement basin and plastic bucket for washing and a large jug for drinking water.”
[...] www.cnn.com — Mar 17, 2025
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The arrival of the immigrants, alleged by the U.S. to be members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, took place under an agreement for which the Trump administration will pay the [El Salvadorian] government of President Nayib Bukele $6 million for one year of services.
[...] The facility has eight sprawling pavilions and can hold up to 40,000 inmates. Each cell can fit 65 to 70 prisoners. CECOT prisoners do not receive visits and are never allowed outdoors. The prison does not offer workshops or educational programs to prepare them to return to society after their sentences.
[...] [Human rights organization] Cristosal reported last year that at least 261 people had died in El Salvador’s prisons during the gang crackdown. The group and others have cited cases of abuse, torture and lack of medical attention. apnews.com — Mar 16, 2025
Trump and company must consider $6 million a small price to pay — to have the evidence of their human rights abuses, and their total abandonment of Due Process — simply “disappear” far beyond the reach of U.S. laws, Constitutional edicts on search and seizures; and far beyond anyone holding them accountability.
In other words, par for the Trump course. Where “the law” is whatever he says it is.
Where the MAGA-cowards in Congress, who have enabled this abandonment of Due Process — have no excuse for turning another blind eye … to these human right abuses. Done in America’s name.
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PS. Even though the Trump-induced lawless News-cycle, moves on from day to day — I’ve been unable to “move on” from those other images, of days prior — of what it really means to be:
Declared Guilty by the Trump regime — with No trial, No evidence, No due process.
And now apparently no record they — the Disappeared — ever existed, according to recently deleted ICE database records.
If that isn’t indication of their complicity in this reckless law-breaking, I don’t know what is …
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CECOT Prisoners, photographed by CNN in late <i>2024</i>, are kept in group cells for 23.5 hours a day.
Privacy has no meaning, in the place meant for “worst of the worst.”
Whether guilty, or not — no matter. If the price is right … your rights have just vanished.
No place for anyone — NOT proven Guilty of any crime, in any Court of Law.
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