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.
uncharged criminals
Yeah, that term sends a chill down my spine. Expect to hear it more and more in a “guilty until proven innocent” kind of way.
So right now it’s non-criminal foreigners, soon it’ll be criminal US citizens, then any US citizen with a wrong opinion.
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.”
Yep, that’s exactly what Trump wants.
Reporter: The president of El Salvador said he would be willing to take American citizens in federal prison population.
Trump: I love that
Only 22% had non-violent offenses, and about a dozen face serious charges.
This makes it sound like most of them had violent offenses. To clarify from the article:
75% had no criminal record
22% had “a criminal history—mostly for non-violent offenses like theft, shoplifting, and trespassing”
3% had “unclear records”
“A dozen of the 238 migrants were accused of murder, rape, assault, and kidnapping.”
“A dozen of the 238 migrants were accused of murder, rape, assault, and kidnapping.”
Emphases mine. They were accused of those crimes, but not tried or convicted. Anyone can accuse anyone of anything at any time.
Glad he is being called out.
What’s the point? CBS has made a mint off of promoting trump. 60 minutes has had a decade to expose his russian ties, his mob ties, his frauds, his rapes.
So charge them and try them.
and about a dozen face serious charges
clearly they don’t face ANY charges. that implies due process, which they did not receive.
CBS in front of congress in 3…2…
