56,816 people are now being detained by ICE,
both in the United States and in El Salvador and other countries where there’s little or no control over the conditions in which they’re being detained.
Over 70 percent have not been convicted of any crime.
Many were abducted by ICE agents in plain clothes and wearing masks to prevent identification, from their places of work, court houses, or their homes and apartments.
Families have been broken up and family members “disappeared.”
We have no way of ensuring that they are being held in humanitarian conditions. Venezuela’s Attorney General has announced that Venezuelan migrants held in El Salvador recently returned to Venezuela suffered torture and abuse while imprisoned in CECOT.
Because there’s been no due process — no independent verification of who these people are or even that they have been in the United States illegally — it is entirely possible that some detainees are American citizens.
This story continues to worsen.
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