The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily paused a court-imposed midnight deadline to return to the US a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, agreeing to a request from President Donald Trump that will give the justices more time to consider the case.
  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    374·
    18 days ago

    I don’t know why this is being downvoted. There is a very real possibility that he’s already dead. He’s being housed in a cell with members of the very gang that he was fleeing from. Those people have nothing left to lose. They’re in there for the rest of their lives and could just kill this guy for funzies and their situation wouldn’t change at all. He’s not, to our knowledge, being held in any kind of segregated unit for his own protection, and there’s nobody who can check on his well being. Heck, either Trump or Bukele could just order him killed because he’s too much of a political liability. For all we know, we could be fighting for the freedom of a man who was killed by his cellmates last week.

      • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        23·
        18 days ago

        No, that’s a separate case. That said, I’ll agree that that guy is probably dead too.

        This guy fled El Salvador at roughly around the age of 16 and illegally entered the US. He’s married to a US citizen and has a daughter with special needs. He has not been charged with any crime in the US, and was granted an order protecting him from removal to El Salvador in 2019 on humanitarian grounds.

        That order was ignored.

        • cogman@lemmy.world
          14·
          18 days ago

          And, to be clear, 2019 was under the trump admin. I can’t stress enough how crystal clear and dire someone’s case would have had to have been for Trump’s immigration judges to grant asylum. They were giving that out to basically nobody during his first term. Except for I guess this guy.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
      81·
      18 days ago

      Just FYI, I very much doubt that there are segregated units there. CNN did a piece about this prison. It is designed to be degrading and inhumane.

      In a recent visit, CNN’s David Culver and his team described cells “built to hold 80 or so inmates” where men are held for 23.5 hours a day and “the only furniture is tiered metal bunks, with no sheets, pillows or mattresses … an open toilet, a cement basin and plastic bucket for washing and a large jug for drinking water.”

      …

      The CNN team that visited in late 2024 described the deprivation as “deliberate,” noting the men were allowed out of their crowded cells for just 30 minutes a day, that “there is no privacy here, no trace of comfort” and the lights are on 24/7.

      “They do not work. They are not allowed books or a deck of cards or letters from home. Plates of food are stacked outside the cells at mealtimes and pulled through the bars. No meat is ever served. The 30-minute daily respite is merely to leave the cell for the central hallway for group exercise or Bible readings,” wrote CNN’s David Culver and his team.

      Inmates are not allowed visits from family or friends and some of them must face the possibility that they will never be released.

      • CherryBullets@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        17 days ago

        1 open toilet for 80 men… 1… 1… 1… I cannot wrap my head around that singular inhumane fact. Everything about this is horrible, but this is devilry incarnate. The most basic human needs that you cannot control, the most disgusting ones that no one wishes to have be unhygienic and public… make no mistake, that toilet is never clean if it even works at all and 80 men definitely cannot all hold it 24/7 while someone else is using the damn thing. This is horror.

    • DBT@lemmy.world
      1·
      18 days ago

      Someone in the cell he’s in would have to recognize him tho. I don’t know how possible that is. And it doesn’t seem like inmates are able to really communicate. If he’s housed with a bunch of other inmates who were also deported from the US, I feel like (hope) he’s probably not going to be recognized.

      • Geetnerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        18 days ago

        He’s in one of, if not THE most dangerous prison in the world. They have over 300 deaths a year, committed by the inmates.

        If he gets out alive, it’ll be a miracle. And then there’s the PTSD.