It should horrify you that it took a major media organization publishing a full investigation into the forced disappearance of a Venezuelan man for DHS to admit where it sent him and what his current location is. - ThreadSky

reichlinmelnick.bsky.social • 12 hours ago

It should horrify you that it took a major media organization publishing a full investigation into the forced disappearance of a Venezuelan man for DHS to admit where it sent him and what his current location is.

Reposted from Feral Human Rights Lawyer

“For me, it’s a forced disappearance, because he’s not communicating with anyone, they’re not permitting him a right to anything … ” Alejandro said.

Alejandro is right. Lawyers, journalists, and academics need to start using the correct language.

www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Comments

screenname.bsky.social•11 hours ago

This is a crime against humanity and should be prosecuted at The Hague.

writer4life.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It does. I'm horrified by this and wonder how many others have disappeared but have nobody fighting for their due process or return.

cagirlinsf.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I’m actually surprised it was NBC and not Pro Publica.

vivek925.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Aka kidnapping

jeanrhode.bsky.social•5 hours ago

It horrifies me and I want to know what we can do to force the government to bring him back!

thisuserisdumb.bsky.social•12 hours ago

This is exactly the situation that our Founding Fathers were trying to prevent when they wrote the 6th Amendment: Right to a Public Trial

birdingfella.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Gotta give James Madison credit here. He knew what could happen without these protections

thisuserisdumb.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I took a college course on the constitutional convention. Our Founding Fathers were very wise.

birdingfella.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Yes I mean they had first hand experience with George III didn't they?

ladyevenstarbpe.bsky.social•12 hours ago

👍

buu7.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It's especially bad when you consider that the term "disappearance" was originally a euphemism used by right-wing dictatorships when they imprisoned and murdered people in secret to try avoiding accountability.

chippyplay.bsky.social•12 hours ago

So according to Tricia McLaughlin, the evidence we require in order to imprison someone can be hidden as intelligence reports.

That’s a bold claim - they need to be pushed hard on that.

freethinker65.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Sounds like Adrian, after due process (which he didn't get), might have been denied asylum (came to earn money to send back to Venezuela to buy a house?) and subjected to deportation to his home country,Venezuela. No indication of why he should ever have been sent to a jail in El Salvador for life.

cmozog.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I think there was a deal that the US would send "x" bodies for "x" price and they didn't care who they were. Why else was a woman sent as well?

swmseattle.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Rendition.

deebell.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The US is officially a third world country run by a mob.

eberhardt1.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It's kidnapping and human trafficking

300ps.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Federal judges can't even get answers. Imagine being a rando calling around trying to find a family member.

tcampb.bsky.social•10 hours ago

This meets all of the requirements for human trafficking.

hedahunter.bsky.social•12 hours ago

it does!

bramacosta.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The first Trump administration separated migrant children from their families, many of whom have not yet been found and reunited

anonmrbear.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It’s horrifying that deportation means prison in a foreign country. Deportation does not mean complete loss of rights and imprisonment. There is no due process and automatic sentencing.

stathiosb.bsky.social•3 hours ago

And to think how much hand-wringing went on last year lest Trump be convicted in any of his multiple cases. The thought made mainstream media weep.

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pegbush.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I just hate this regime, it has come to that.
Hate is a horrible feeling

enlightenme.bsky.social•1 hour ago

~ ~ I agree. I don't like to hate, and I don't even like the word. I usually use dislike instead.
Why? Why do we have to have this horrible man for president? I'm glad I'm near the end of my life actually!

margieisblue.bsky.social•59 minutes ago

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Please advocate for all the men sent to El Salvador every day until they are returned. They weren't deported. They were kidnapped and sent to a gulag. Don't sane wash this.

shootfaryall.bsky.social•12 hours ago

At length I’ll bet that it is proven beyond cavil that a healthy percentage of “the disappeared” had zero connection with any “terrorist gang”.

A mere tattoo is thin evidence.

Damn thin.

dooblontonder.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Even if someone was connected to a gang, the government can’t put them in prison without a full criminal trial. The fact that the prison is in another country doesn’t erase the right of due process. These aren’t normal deportations, it’s imprisonment on foreign soil at the request of the USA.

bunideme.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Adrián, 27, came to US in ‘23 by appt through CBP One app. Alejandro provided NBC News a photo of a printout confirming his brother’s 6/12/23 appt.

Adrián also applied for TPS per 12/1/24 document from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a part of DHS that handles immigration benefits.

grobielauren.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Why wasn't the media talking about this one before and why isn't the term HUMAN TRAFFICKING being used with all of them?

gamecat235.bsky.social•12 hours ago

But so far all they have admitted to is that he was removed, right?

They haven’t shared any evidence, adjudication, or anything else have they?

anna0612.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Where are the females that have been detained. No sightings, no records, no media sightings? Where are the females who are part of these ongoing terrorist groups abductions?
We Demand to know the names of every single person that is being extorted

anna0612.bsky.social•4 hours ago

In this disgusting, obvious public display of human rights abuse, terrorism, hate crimes, racial profiling, human trafficking scheme led by the corrupt criminals that are leading the way, Donald J Trump and the trump regime are selling, trading,

anna0612.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Misplacing, abusing, violating human rights, violating international trafficking and harm laws. Where are the women, who have been kidnapped from our communities. They are not accepted into El Salvador so where are you hiding them and the children? We Demand answers now.

anna0612.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Never forget the forced sterilizations and hysterectomy s Donald Trump and his terroristic team forced upon detainees in at least 2 detention centers in the U.S. during his 1st term. The children stored on cages to be lost , unaccounted for over the years

rkdowner.bsky.social•1 hour ago

The fact that so many mothers voted for him anyway, knowing this, shows you how racist they are. I am alarmed - absolutely stunned - by the number of racists in this country. I wonder how people can be racist in this day and age.

anna0612.bsky.social•4 hours ago

We need answers , and we need them NOW. This is much bigger than what is shared publicly, so inhumane beyond any of our reality @nilc.org @nipnlg.bsky.social @immigcoalition.bsky.social