“The Salvadoran president offered to turn the CECOT into an extension of the U.S. prison system in exchange for a payment of $20,000 per individual per year.” The two presidents are basically slave traders in drag. english.elpais.com/internationa... - ThreadSky

tribelaw.bsky.social • 2 days ago

“The Salvadoran president offered to turn the CECOT into an extension of the U.S. prison system in exchange for a payment of $20,000 per individual per year.”

The two presidents are basically slave traders in drag.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-19/how-bukele-benefits-from-accepting-us-deportation-flights-20000-per-inmate-a-year-and-trumps-favor.html

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sylvestermarcus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just wait until the U.S. prison CEOs realize what this will do to their bottom line. “Wait, they’re stealing our prisoners!”

melancholyhammer.bsky.social•2 days ago

I keep imagining Bukele saying "oops one died, send another."

ejbarnesart.bsky.social•2 days ago

Either that, or hiding the deaths to keep collecting.

oeishik.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bukele needs to bring Garcia home. https://youtu.be/nM-Bz9bAiRw

ilbassfisherman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Congress and Supreme Court better wake up! Trump wouldn't blink to send any of them there if they don't align 100%. No one is immune. Need to stop this immediately.

rxdavid.bsky.social•2 days ago

As Robert Reich said, “Remember this as we hear about "wasteful government spending."”

rxdavid.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3lmmqnw7uot2j

anton49.bsky.social•2 days ago

human trafficking

jmal52.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hey Congress... are you budgeting for this? For enslavement & torture? Seems like a truly bad investment.
@doggett.house.gov @aoc.bsky.social @jasmineforus.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov Anyone??

chrisjustice01.bsky.social•2 days ago

SCOTUS is allowing this violation of rights

somapsycheyogi.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sending US dollars abroad instead of taking care of Americans at home.

ejbarnesart.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's about jobs that Americans aren't willing to do (or rather can't, for legal reasons).

kimthoman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Shame and despicable.

funnybunny1956.bsky.social•2 days ago

So Trump is selling slaves to El Salvador

tenoannie.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is horrific

calliy2.bsky.social•1 day ago

This would be a huge error for trump. Having them in a US territory would mean he would have to comply with civil rights and humanitarian regs. No more hiding behind a foreign soveriegn nation defense.

eighthoften.bsky.social•2 days ago

So grotesque I can hardly believe I am reading this in 2025, in America!! What has happened to our humanity?

mnirisheyes22.bsky.social•2 days ago

Where are the international Courts? Can they do anything?

honumac.bsky.social•2 days ago

POTUS is a gangster.

gloidkwtf.bsky.social•2 days ago

Today it’s brown people. Tomorrow could be any one of us other flavors. THIS is authoritarianism. Oh and for you stupids in the back, that’s bad

digitmusic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not a bad deal. Remember, each of these inmates receives a 2’ x 2’ square (sumptuous) living quarter.

falcon44.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump is a terrorist....Full stop

triron.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yep

geoflix.bsky.social•2 days ago

I thought GOP was opposed to offshoring our industries

resist33.bsky.social•2 days ago

Human trafficking!!!!!!!!

laurieboy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Both Presidents profiteering from propaganda. Neither of them caring about the human cost.

rest108.bsky.social•12 hours ago

This is all about money. So, no reason why they can't return a single individual. International relations, sovereignty are not involved. This is a transactional relationship. The United States can pay for his return. We should be doing everything 24/7 for his speedy and safe return.

victorytwin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Meanwhile in El Salvador….

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/erik-prince-trump-immigration-enforcement

auntiem1.bsky.social•2 days ago

So what do you suppose the profit margin is?

jjcornflower.bsky.social•2 days ago

with everything else that’s wrong with this…

- Why would the US pay to house aliens instead of simply deporting them?

- Will the US get health updates so we know when to stop paying the annual fee for an individual?

So many things don’t add up.

It’s a practice run for sending citizens.

ltlging.bsky.social•2 days ago

Profiting off human suffering, just like here in the US.

rbsnst.bsky.social•2 days ago

Does the President have the authority to make a drastic change of our criminal justice system?

attikusfinch.bsky.social•2 days ago

ginalolabridgetta.bsky.social•2 days ago

I worked for a co. called Prison Health Services in the late 80’s and 90’s as a provider

Private prisons are a business, the commodity they trade in is human beings
The more humans they hold on to the more money they make

They hold meetings to discuss ways to KEEP folks not release folks

Money

dcastanedamccarty.bsky.social•2 days ago

Scenes from this prison are ghastly and repellent. Dehumanizing. Our country is degraded by or association with El Salvador's prisons.

sunraa.bsky.social•1 day ago

America is a nuclear armed El Salvador

jeanmoulin4ever.bsky.social•2 days ago

Here’s the message…
Do republican want to go down in history as the saviors of our democracy or the ones who helped it die!

mkwilson27.bsky.social•2 days ago

We need a democratic hopeful for 2028 to announce SEVERE consequences for El Salvador in 2029.

marcashrsn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Be aware, the practice of monetizing inmate detention through per-inmate per-day fees is widespread in US correctional facilities as well. That doesn't make it right, but it's not uncommon.

trumplies.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cruel and unusual punishment! Period!

mguindani.bsky.social•2 days ago

How is it an extension of the US prison system if people can be brought in, there is no due process, and if a mistake is made, it looks like they are lost forever? It looks like the US is simply paying money for foreign concentration camps.

thenag.bsky.social•2 days ago

This prison should not even exist. These conditions are exactly what my USA used to fight against. I am sickened.

pampalmeresq.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly!

kahboyd.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't get it. If these people are Venezuelen, then deport them back to to V. To send them to a brutal prison seems unmerited - unless being cruel gives Trump & Co an adreniline power rush ?

ilbassfisherman.bsky.social•2 days ago

They are trying to scare people. Scared people stay quiet, and don't fight back. They are trying to scare immigrants to self deport and stop new immigrants from coming into the country. Then they also are planning for the rest of us that fight back.

stop-look-read.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's what he needs all the money for that his second in command Musk is finding (or at least he says he is.)

wegowayback.bsky.social•2 days ago

Do they have to verify they are still alive every year or do we just take their word for it

donalddrumpf2025.bsky.social•2 days ago

When MAGA said they wanted to take things back to an earlier time when America was great, I didn't realize they meant the days of the slave trade

rkveteran.bsky.social•2 days ago

ITS REPORTED THAT TRUMP HAS SENT HUNDREDS DOWN THERE SO FAR. THEN FOR 200 PRISONERS EL SALVADOR WOULD GET FROM THE U.S. $4 MILLION A YEAR. THAT WON'T HELP THE BUDGET! MAYBE WE COULD SEND MUSK DOWN THERE TO LOOK FOR EFFICIENCY AND CUTS!

pacifcmigrant.bsky.social•2 days ago

And the private contractors running immigrant detention centers in the US get paid for each inmate by the day. There is zero motivation for them to let anyone out, ever, regardless of legal status.

pamballard3.bsky.social•2 days ago

And does this $$$ go into DUMPS pocket? We should ask, these all these men should be brought back to the U.S. and given due process.

olympicdane.bsky.social•2 days ago

Did the 8th Amendment get eliminated?

massdisillusion.bsky.social•2 days ago

slave traitors.

greyhoundx.bsky.social•2 days ago

k9rescue.bsky.social•2 days ago

Irony is officially dead

goosname.bsky.social•2 days ago

hmm, what’s the biggest clue that this is ai slop?

the way the person gesticulating and holding the file isn’t the one who got the word balloon?

or the way each person has a different number of fingers on their right and left hands?

megl24.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is human trafficking. Appalling. Illegal. Can't wait for these subhuman 'presidents' to be prosecuted.

pbrstreetgang702.bsky.social•2 days ago

Disgusting

in-the-blue.bsky.social•2 days ago

Human trafficking.

mrgordonfraser.bsky.social•2 days ago

This cruelty is unbearable. Of all the chaos and disruption, I find this the most difficult to endure. It makes me feel physically unwell. No human should be treated in this way or reduced to a base $ value.

praire.bsky.social•2 days ago

Please allow me to feel physically unwell with you.I am sure most normal people would. It's shocking. This El Salvadorian President will come to the US next week. Our Government has evolved to a Police State currently!!
I dream that this will stop sooner than later.

mrgordonfraser.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ghastly …

azi7.bsky.social•2 days ago

So, that’s where our Medicaid & Medicare money is going.

justicelives.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Evangelicals in the US call them Christians, and God like!

scarleto64.bsky.social•2 days ago

I predicted that the US would outsource its prison system. Inmates will be gone and forgotten.

attikusfinch.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is slavery. It is slavery. 100000% slavery.

attikusfinch.bsky.social•2 days ago

We are paying for this?!?!?!? No. Fucking that has got to be illegal to use our funds like this without congressional approval

gwpda.bsky.social•2 days ago

I do believe this is how the Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama prison systems operate. Certainly it was how Joe Arpaio ran the County jail in Maricopa County and how the State of Arizona operates its Doug Ducey-sponsored private prisons. Profit is profit, after all.

qwistarbo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Now to simply get the Dissapearee to pay the $200,000 and save the government money.

iflysolo2016.bsky.social•2 days ago

Efficiency???

silencedogood2.bsky.social•2 days ago

☎️💬US Companies:
Do the right thing.
El Salvador:
AES,Citibank,Chevron, Hanesbrands, FedEx, Fruit of Loom, Google, Kimberly-Clark,Microsoft, PriceSmart,Walmart
✍️ 💬
FB Gustavo Villatoro MOJ
FB Nayib Bukele Pres

https://newsroom.hanesbrands.com/newsreleases/country/el-salvador/default.aspx

FOTL
https://www.fruit.com/

Google
https://m.youtube.com/watch

dogcatcher4.bsky.social•2 days ago

In the US, it costs more than $100,000 per prisoner annually.

He's offering a bargain!

I also read that they are considering expanding CECOT!

They say they have "lots of land available!"

pjmacwriter.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article303757151.html

Bukele will be at the White House on Monday. He could bring Garcia home! Easily!

savinghistory4us.bsky.social•2 days ago

and how does that fit into DOGE?

syk1331.bsky.social•2 days ago

Does the Frog, who is slowly being Boiled to Death, ever realize it before it's TO LATE?

suzannedspain.bsky.social•2 days ago

So angry about this!!!

marty888.bsky.social•2 days ago

Worse than human trafficking.

stand-up.bsky.social•2 days ago

the prisoners were sold for 20,000.oo THEY WILL NOT BE SET FREE after a year, nor will trump keep using OUR TAX DOLLARS TO PAY THE PRISON. after the first year, they are SLAVES owned by the nations that take them from trump. Slick slave trafficking scheme. They can't be set free, THEY ARE WITNESSES

stand-up.bsky.social•2 days ago

trump knows he can never set anyone free from there... BECAUSE THEY ARE WITNESSES TO THE CRIMES.

veritasnow.bsky.social•2 days ago

We are now closely aligned with dictators and fascists across the globe. What an embarrassment we have become, history will not be kind to the Rep Party. The USA is now a blatant anti-democracy, openly corrupt country.

jim0novak.bsky.social•2 days ago

A reminder to Americans:

Violations of law the USA tolerates abroad repeatedly tend to return to be applied to Americans at home.

sequoiapetite.bsky.social•2 days ago

I remember believing that slavery had been abolished after the civil war. It just went underground and re-emerges where we can see it from time to time. It never stopped.

vegan3.bsky.social•2 days ago

well if somebody ever gets rid of trump, the only answer is remove all the immigration laws. they have only existed the last 100 years and all stemmed from racism. there is no reason to have any laws. but will the dems do that?
NO. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US EITHER.

bekind37.bsky.social•2 days ago

We have got to fight against this!! Horrible! Sick! Against the law and Constitution!

cdb87.bsky.social•2 days ago

People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.”

― George Orwell, 1984

debiob.bsky.social•2 days ago

I can all too easily imagine Eric Blair leaning back in his chair saying “ I TOLD you”

gwpda.bsky.social•2 days ago

trump & musk arbitrarily assign individuals to the Social Security Administration Master Death File. Voila! Your'e dead!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/

faithlessgrace.bsky.social•2 days ago

Gee, and it was all immigrants. I’m sure they won’t use that to track them down and rendition them to El Salvador.

gwpda.bsky.social•2 days ago

The muskrats CLAIM they are illegally present in the United States. There is no evidence or documentation that is so.

faithlessgrace.bsky.social•2 days ago

Legal, illegal… who’s to say but Emperor Trump and his Minister of Deceit.

ogg921.bsky.social•2 days ago

The ABSENCE OF DUE PROCESS DESTROYS any illusion that this is about legal v illegal & ignores the cornerstone of our justice system, Innocent until PROVEN Guilty .
Without due process:
apprehension becomes ABDUCTION
deportation becomes HUMAN TRAFFICKING
THIS admin is violating human rights #TheHague

gobearcats.bsky.social•2 days ago

In the Trump administration, everyone is considered guilty without any due process. The Nazis had more rights in the 1940s than people in this country.

gobearcats.bsky.social•2 days ago

If they can do that to immigrants they can do it to American citizens as well

aramintas-legacy.bsky.social•2 days ago

And people here worried listening to Musky's lies abt fraud & abuse.
💅🏿
Well looka what we got here..
Modern day human trafficking, slave trade, gulag, unprotected labor workforce, the no-due process tribunals courtesy of ICE & the DOJ
#thisISamerica
#dejavu

joebug.bsky.social•1 day ago

Disgusting

raging-dee.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don’t know how this can be constitutional. How are we supposed to prevent cruel and unusual punishment if the prison is in another country? And isn’t sending people there cruel to begin with? It makes it all but impossible to have visitors, never mind good legal representation.

rainsend.bsky.social•2 days ago

20k per year. So do they expect these people to still be alive in a year? Fiscally rewarding but contrary to expectations.

bestdogmom.bsky.social•2 days ago

Think back 10 years. Did you ever think you’d post something like this about an American president, that you’d be moved to call him a “slave trader in drag?” I so respect you and am stunned we’ve gotten to a place where those words would need to be used to describe the president accurately. Sad.

oregonamis.bsky.social•2 days ago

albertodelion.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unconstitutional, by the administration’s own arguments. If El Salvador is not subject to US courts’ jurisdiction as the administration argues, then US courts cannot sanction Americans being sent to prisons that aren’t subject to US law.

modernnonna.bsky.social•2 days ago

So you agree the American prison system is slavery? #ADT

truth-still-matter.bsky.social•2 days ago

We will make sure that Trump, JD Vance and Pam Bondi will be on their knees the same way as on this picture ! and locked up for life !

charleeg.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don't forget Homan

truth-still-matter.bsky.social•2 days ago

True

praire.bsky.social•2 days ago

We have to make sure JD Vance never makes it to the Presidency. He's starting is financial Pac now

pampalmeresq.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s an Idiot.

cj-forward.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m beginning to think that Robert F Kennedy Jr, is not the only one with brain worms.

lbion.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m looking forward to the day when the two prisoners, forced onto their knees and into submission, are Bukele and Trump.

ogg921.bsky.social•2 days ago

The fact that they both engaged in human trafficking as leaders of their respective countries suggests they ought to be kneeling in The Hague. Trump has violated the US notion of justice under the LAW which ought to mean impeachment.
Thanks to the GOP, Trump is instead playing gold @ millions/round.

jimintexas.bsky.social•2 days ago

Absolutely, yes.

safetypup.bsky.social•2 days ago

Human trafficking

ncyankee.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is a live replication of the Stanford/Zimbardo prison experiment.

johnbgilman.bsky.social•2 days ago

All brought about by your prized student, Merrick Garland, and his willingness to protect Trump at the expense of American democracy and rule of law. And yet nary a word of condemnation of Garland from you Professor. The Ivory Tower is sometimes utterly despicable in its lack of moral compass...

7thkkid.bsky.social•2 days ago

And all the "law enforcement" is wearing masks. Seems to me if all these people were on the right side of history they wouldn't be afraid to show their faces.