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pat_k

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27. +1 My thought exactly.

Fri May 22, 2026, 06:40 PM

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The wheels of justice are too f-ing slow. It seems to me the fact this was a vindictive prosecution was obvious from the day the charges were made public. Utter bullshit from start to finish.

I can't help but fear for the fates of the 250 or so who were "released" from El Salvador to the country they originally fled.

Found this one bit of good news:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/venezuelan-makeup-artist-cecot-spain-asylum

Venezuelan makeup artist who was deported to El Salvador seeks asylum in Spain: ‘I feel safe here’
Andry José Hernández Romero was deported from the US to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison before he was allowed to return to Venezuela

After torture at Cecot... no words.

I would love it if someone like Tom Steyer would finance a documentary to follow up on this group of people targeted, rounded up, and flown off in violation of court orders to be abused at CECOT in a corrupt and unconstitutional "deal" with El Salvador. The horror of this particular evil perpetrated in our name can't be allowed to fade into the background of the firehouse of shit.

Perhaps the worst is knowing that thousands of others who have been similarly targeted without rationale (beyond meeting a vile "quota" ) are suffering in hellish concentration camps inside our own borders right now.

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