US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back

My first thought seeing this headline: "Please don't tell me he got sent to CECOT."

> Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) admitted to mistakenly sending Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador’s notoriously brutal CECOT prison.

:O

If you haven't heard of CECOT, go watch one of the recent YouTube videos on it. I'm glad that El Salvador has taken control over gang activity but, man, CECOT is one of the last places on earth you want to end up.

I just hope that the images we get are for show and that normally they let human beings actually walk upright and don't slap them around willy-nilly.

Sounds like the perfect place to send people when you want to scare people into feigning support for you and to fear you. You know, like a fascist dictator would do.

> I'm glad that El Salvador has taken control over gang activity

> Abrego Garcia’s family has had no contact with him since he was sent to the megaprison in El Salvador, known as the CECOT. His wife spotted her husband in news photographs released by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on the morning of March 16, after a U.S. District Judge had told the Trump administration to halt the flights. “Oopsie,” Bukele wrote on social media, taunting the judge.

The man is nothing more than a tyrant with a smile, and now his concentration camp will be used to house whoever pays him or gets in his way, not just alleged gang members. He's already in power unconstitutionally: https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-elections-bukele-demo...

Now it may take decades for Salvadorans to rid themselves of this dictatorship.