Summary
A 60 Minutes investigation revealed that 75% of the 238 Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s Cecot prison have no criminal records.
Only 22% had non-violent offenses, and about a dozen face serious charges.
The administration used wartime authority under the Alien Enemies Act to justify the move, despite a federal judge calling the action “bad faith.”
DHS defended the deportations, claiming many migrants are uncharged criminals. Critics, including the ACLU, warn the process bypasses due process and sets a dangerous legal precedent.
That’s exactly it. The right wing base sees due process as a barrier to prosecuting criminals, because they don’t understand that, in reality, you cannot legitimately call someone a criminal without following the agreed-upon process to define them that way in the first place. It’s too much work to think before acting.
Just normalizing the typical fascist mindset, collapsing the logic: “They deserve deportation because
they’re a criminal, and they’re a criminal becauseI said so.”