El Salvador offers to take American prisoners

[UNCjigga]

Alarm bells ought to be ringing. “Concentration camps” in Guantanamo were bad enough—but this is so much worse. El Salvador’s El Presidente is offering to "house in his jails dangerous American criminals" and accept deportees of any nationality.

Surely, we’re not talking about Americans, are we?

"We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee. The fee would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable."

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/04/rubio-us-el-salvador-bukele-jail-americans-immigrants

Now don’t get me wrong—I’m all for shipping MS-13 gang members out to CECOT—but disappearing US citizens in foreign jails is a slippery slope kind of thing. It’s the kind of thing you’d setup for political prisoners.

 

[HomerJS]

The great purge is underway.

Who is still left that still insists we are not operating under fascism?

 

[Braznor]

Where can I invest in stocks of El Salvador prison industry?

 

[uallas5]

Well considering we're already spending 20X the $$$ using military flights vs civilian ones for these deportations, what's a few million more to house them there? Gubmint efficiency am I right?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Now don’t get me wrong—I’m all for shipping MS-13 gang members out to CECOT—but disappearing US citizens in foreign jails is a slippery slope kind of thing. It’s the kind of thing you’d setup for political prisoners.

Nope, not even them. You cannot give an inch or more will be taken. Everyone in the US and everyone the US interacts with should be treated with decency whenever possible.

 

[KMFJD]

fuel for bukelel's bitcoin server farms

 

[gothuevos]

but disappearing US citizens in foreign jails is a slippery slope kind of thing.

It's way worse than that.