Why Trump fought so hard to stop Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return

Wednesday evening, the lawyers of Kilmar Abrego Garcia filed a proposed modified complaint which managed to be both a bomb and a confirmation of what we already knew: while in the Barbaric prison of Cecot d’El Salvador, Garcia was subjected to abuse and torture.

THE Modified complaint Details The arrival of Garcia in Cecot, where he and other prisoners were informed: “Welcome to Cecot. Anyone who enters here does not leave.”

Garcia was forced to undress and was struck and struck while he changed clothes, then hit wooden batons while walking towards his cell. He and 20 others were forced to kneel for 9 hours during the night, and the guards would hit anyone who fell. Garcia was denied access to the bathroom and forced to dirty himself. The lively lights stayed 24 hours a day to prevent prisoners from sleeping – not that there was a lot of chance of that because they were sleeping on metal berths without mattresses.

Cecot officials, knowing that Garcia was expelled in Salvador by mistake and that he was a target of MS-13 gang members, would threaten him to a cell with gang members who “tear it”.

Forced in stress positions, refused access to the bathrooms, prevented from sleeping, forced to undress, struck with batons, threatened with violence of other detainees – these are all things that occurred in Abu GhraibThe notoriously brutal Iraqi installation that the United States used as a military prison during the war.

Garcia’s modified complaint takes care to speak only for him because he was not detained In the same cellular block as the 200 Venezuelans who were expelled at the same time. That said, it is not a secret that the general conditions of Cecot are horrible and humiliating– And that’s the whole point.

The interior videos show berths and men without mattresses piled up in overcrowded cells and forced to bathe in open structures in front of guards and other prisoners. But it was not possible to verify the physical violence or the torture of people in the establishment because there is is not an access to detainees or anyone was released.

Human rights groups have documented torture, forced confessions and deprivation of necessities such as food, health care and hygiene in the two dozen other prisons in El Salvador, and the United States even have a Government report 2023 say the same thing.

While internal security secretary Kristi Noem can like to do hard cosplay Hits Media In front of the overcrowded cells of Cecot, she also insisted that the prisoners sent to Cecot receive tremendous care in a way. She said The Wall Street Journal which held “has mattresses, they have complete meals” and “receive time to exercise and regularly get medical checks”.

The Trump administration knew very well that if Garcia was freed from Cecot, he could freely speak of the abuses he suffered, proving that Noem was lying. Seeing Garcia’s allegations illuminates why the Trump administration went to such lengths Refusing to return Garcia – Even after admitting that sending El Salvador was an accident.

And it is not only that the Trump administration has overcome and pretends the inability to return Garcia, insisting absurdly so that he does not have the power to do so. He also sought to continue to characterize him as incredibly dangerous as a way to justify leaving him in Cecot.

The Ministry of Justice attempted to force the lawyer who was dealing with the case, Erez Rebeni, to support in court that Garcia was a terrorist. Rewarded refused, saying that there was no evidence of this, and when he later refused to sign a call from the same statement, he was dismissed.

Once the Trump administration reversed the course and brought Garcia back to home, he insisted that it did only because Garcia was now Face false criminal charges. Now, according to the Doj, Garcia was a kind of leading smugglers for MS-13, carrying violent gang members throughout the United States.

The Trump administration is also reward Their star witness against Garcia, Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, with a prison release and Deportation protection He can therefore testify against Garcia. Unlike Garcia, Reyes has undergone several crime convictions, notably for the smuggling of immigrants, and has returned several times to the United States without authorization.

While Garcia awaits his criminal trial, her lawyers had to take the unusual measure of ask the judge To keep their client incarcerated for the sake that, if Garcia was released, the Trump administration would immediately take him. The Trump administration has already said to court Whether it doesn’t matter the result of the criminal affair, Garcia will be expelled.

Wearing exaggerated criminal charges against Garcia is not content to undermine its credibility on the allegations that the government surely knew that it would be released from Cecot. Move things to the Criminal Tribunal also of Garcia boxes, which can now put this information if it testifies, which also exposes it to a cross-examination by the government.

The government will probably oppose Garcia’s request to modify its complaint, but it is up to the judge to decide to authorize it.

But Garcia’s allegations are already there, highlighting the worst corners of the Trump administration. And there is nothing that the administration can make this bell in a bell.

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