incredible article with many helpful links within. Places current situation in broader context of a history of US violence and hostility in Latin America. It's no mistake that the notorious prison where migrants were sent is in El Salvador.

Op-Ed:
Trump’s Revival of the Alien Enemies Act Is at the Heart of the New McCarthyism:
Trump is showing flagrant disregard for due process and constitutional protections against racial discrimination.

by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo

From her bio at the end:

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo is former executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; member of the leadership team at Witness at the Border; a fellow at the Institute for the Geography of Peace in Juárez, Mexico/El Paso, Texas, and at the University of Bergen, Norway’s, Global Research Programme on Inequality; co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild’s Task Force on the Americas; professor of law and ethnic studies at St. Mary’s College of California; visiting chair professor of human rights at National Taiwan University’s College of Law; and co-founder of the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement.
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link to article:

https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-revival-of-the-alien-enemies-act-is-at-the-heart-of-the-new-mccarthyism/

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The labeling of these gangs as “terrorists” — and the imprisonment of people they accuse, without any evidence, of being members in a prison designated for those who supposedly fall into this category — exemplifies crucial continuities.

These can be traced through the guiding threads of the methodologies of state terror that characterized U.S. strategies and affinities during the Cold War, and which have persisted as the emphasis of U.S. hegemony has shifted to the so-called “drug war” and “anti-terror” paradigms. The elites who benefit and the victims continue to be essentially the same as they were in the 1980s.

Another 101 Venezuelans who were transported on these flights, according to the administration, were subject to “regular” orders of deportation. But “deportation” normally refers to a process where a person is returned to their country of origin.

Deportations to Venezuela from the U.S. have been intermittent, complicated by tensions between the two countries, including the breaking of diplomatic relations during the first Trump administration in March 2019. Venezuela announced on March 22 that it would resume deportation flights, but there is no indication so far that this will resolve the status of the 238 Venezuelans already sent to El Salvador.
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