The Trump administration has spent $ 6 million on a conscious disappearance of hundreds of people in a foreign prison, where they are forced to work without payment in the winding conditions.

The appearance of the Center for Internal Affairs as Minister of Internal Security, Christ, arrives in Tekaluk, Salvador, Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
(Alex Brandon / Photo)
After deportation of 238 Venezuelan immigrants in the notorious mega-scratch in Salvador-feasible In violation of court rulings – Trump administration has caused unprecedented analysis To defend their abilities to deport immigrants with the judiciary without presenting any evidence in court. Causing State secrets of privilege– that allows the government to give up Judge James Basberg Temporary restraint (TRO).
These deportation efforts are a clear attack on civil liberties and proper processes. It also represents a darker milestone: the US government is now engaged in human trafficking in the world market.
March 15 Trump administration impressed Agreement of $ 6 million With Salvadoran’s President Naib Bokel, in which the government sells 238 people to during the year in the center of De Confinamiento del Terrismo – Cecot – “Crown value“From a deeply anti -democratic security platform and where there are prison terms Reportedly uncertainWithout the possibility of release. Despite the constant legal intervention, the administration has halved since then. March 26, when lawyers doj addressed by the decision of the Federal Appeal Court that will allow them restore deportations in SalvadorHome Security Secretary Christie Noah visited the country to go to CeCot and deepen the administration’s relations with Booker. And in another operation overnight last weekend, USA deported another 17 people For Salvador, using another legal mechanism to bypass three judges Basberg.
The country’s partnership with El Salvador is intended to assess cheap political points and marginal financial income, at a huge moral price of reducing people to commodity goods in the world market. Even after confessing to this They illegally deported one father Maryland An immigration judge, which has already been granted by an immigration judge, has stated that it could not bring it home because it is in custody of foreign care – means that the executive power prefers its trade communication with El Slavodor over the observance of US legislation.
BUKELE, Trump and Secretary of State Mark Rubio shared awful videos Men who lead from American planes, with chains that bind the ankles and wrists, some conceded when armed guards press each neck. Upon arrival, their heads were shaved, and they were forced into white prison clothes. Till they Spend 23.5 hours a day In overcrowded cells, which have about 80 to 100 people, where they sleep on metal moves without mattresses. They will soon be enrolled in Euphemist El Salvador “Zero negligence“The program, the incomprehensible mode of operation that requires More than 40 000 People who are in custody are for the construction of infrastructure, the production of commercial goods and the crop of agricultural products.
There is a familiar word for forced prison work: slavery. Trump administration has spent millions of taxpayers to deliberately disappear hundreds of people – many of whom are No criminal record and Probably no belonging to the gang– In a foreign prison where they make work without payment, in Turned conditions For the obvious economic benefit A dictator’s self -esteem. Boquel recently boasted that the deal would help make his country Famous brutal The prison system “independently stable“Recognizing that he sees a little more in these new arrivals than the capable bodies in his huge carcultural technique.
Effectively subsidizing and inhabited by a modern criminal colony, Trump returned international slave trade. The United States will also profit from this transaction. This is worth the US Approximately $ 60,000 To get rid of one person in the domestic immigrant detention center during the year, but much less in Cecot, where the price tag is about $ 25,000 per person. Overall the federal government is supposed critical legal protection which captured Trump deportation operation on the inner soil. And, by leaning a Certain Infrastructure from a foreign country, Trump can replace Physical restrictions American content potential. As noem declared At his visit to Cecot “This object is one of the instruments in our instrumental set that we will use when you commit crimes against the American people”, signaling the obvious desire to reach such mechanisms for handling.
In order to maintain rapid expansion within this new authoritarian regime, the American carcassed state has now metastasted outside the state itself.
This is the culmination of a long and shameful history in which the American criminal legal system has always been a place authorized by the state economic exploitation and capitalist income. We do not need to look further than the rise Attraction to private capitalNon -profit prison industry. It covers everything from Private prison operators (which are now primarily managed by immigration isolators) to More than 4000 companies used by prison slave work in their supply chain or contract with carcasses to profit from their captive market, including the sale Monitoring and observation technology Track biometric data and location.
US already exports its carcass logic–The cultural and significant – all over the world, starting from A militarized police tactic to an extremely profitable 230 billion dollars Weapons. But this exchange with El Salvador introduces a new market sector in a globalized charter economy: migrants in prison.
It is difficult not to read a deal with Salvador as part of a greater use of state violence to convert free workers, mostly immigrants, into market goods. Trump’s mass deportation plans are already threatening violate the US economy focusing on immigrants that are largely working Working with low payment This is the basis of the sectors of construction, agriculture and hospitality. Forced to get out of the free labor market at the expense of ICE arrest, immigrants are in prison instead in private detentions – and now, in Salvadoran’s prison – to fulfill their new economic role: how Travelers For corporate income or as criminalized bodies that may be arrested and deported for financial profit. And as branches, including American workers who were born in American descent-disconnecting the consequences of this deportation regime, corporations are likely to be Complete the labor deficit with forced prison work.
People who are in custody Fighting Forest Fires and Hurricane management and other natural disasters; During the COVID-19 pandemic it spread to Production PPPs and digging the main graves. Consist in the criminalized population, including immigrants, there are A multi -billion dollar industry– Trump’s mass deportation simply represents a new, much darker section in the history of American charming capitalism.
Even when Trump tries to set fire to the world economy, levying tariffs and giving up foreign aid to the poor and destroyed by the countries, he allowed human exclusion with his international trade policy.
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It remains to find out if other countries will stimulate to follow the example by offering their own chaotel rooms to accommodate Trump’s deportation regime – although it worries that the BCKE mass criminalization program has a BKK mass criminalization program already influenced Other Latin American leaders. And we are still waiting for the last word from the courts as to whether these people will return home.
But here’s what we know now: two weeks ago, the US government sold 238 Venezuelan immigrants into criminal slavery. On Sunday, another 17 immigrants joined them, deported under unreasonable charges – including A Leading plaintiff In the existing lawsuit against the Internal Security Department. These men have parents. Some of them are factory workers Or recreational football players. One – gay shelter and makeup artist. Another, a barber. And one – even a professional goalkeeper. Their families cannot understand why they were accepted and desperately urged.
Trump and Buke want to disappear these people from our public consciousness and reduce them to criminals, goods, and robbers. But we are obliged to recognize their humanity and demand their return and freedom. Because if we don’t do it, who else will come next?