Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
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tRump and the administration that did this to these people will never suffer enough to pay for the crimes they committed against these people!
aug 24, 2025, 1:58 pm • 4 0 • view
There is not a hell deep enough for the republican party.
aug 24, 2025, 5:04 pm • 3 0 • view
There's not a hell deep enough for the American citizens who voted for this.
aug 24, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
They are traumatized. Who wouldn't be. The US should be better than this. We used to be.
aug 24, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey don’t forget guys! We’re also making extemists/radicals whose only driving force will be the equal suffering of America, probably some American people too. I’m sure that won’t BLOWBACK in our faces AND I’m sure we won’t be doing that intentionally! That’d be crazy!
aug 24, 2025, 2:04 pm • 2 0 • view
This is my thought too… a new generation of ISIS type terrorists.
aug 24, 2025, 3:10 pm • 1 0 • view
They’re betting on it. What a wet dream for defense hawks! turn that southern border into a warzone finally.
aug 24, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Jez, you’re right! 💔
aug 24, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
What Trump is doing to our country is a sin and he needs to pay for it.
aug 24, 2025, 2:26 pm • 4 0 • view
aug 25, 2025, 5:14 am • 2 0 • view
These prisons are hell holes! Of course this trauma has forever changed their lives for the worse. I cannot believe the government of my country did this. We used to change people's lives for the better before Trump.
aug 24, 2025, 2:08 pm • 2 0 • view
My arthritic hip gave out and I fell down the stairs & broke my wrist a month ago. I’m still terrified to go outside or use stairs. I can’t imagine what these people are experiencing- it’s PTSD! May the perpetrators of this movement suffer equally for the pain they are inflicting upon others.
aug 24, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Fascist bastards.
aug 24, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
😢🤬
aug 24, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
It has to be traumatizing to he kidnapped and human trafficked out of your home!
aug 24, 2025, 4:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Pretty sure this was Stephen Miller's intent. And that became tRump's intent to keep brown people out of the U.S.
aug 24, 2025, 1:29 pm • 11 0 • view
Stephen Miller and others in admin also profiting from Palantir Technologies which has contracts with the concentration camps in US
aug 24, 2025, 3:46 pm • 5 1 • view
Goddamn we are great again!!! Praise Jesus, I keep hearing….
aug 24, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
If faces of US immigrants resemble those of Palestinians/warring Ukrainians seem similar, it’s bc of the atrocities trump/putin/netanyahu have allowed. Shipping US immigrants to warring countries like El Salvador to avoid being caught torturing them will NOT provide a loophole. He is guilty.
aug 24, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
The Geneva conventions clearly cover how the word/act of torture is defined. Our military is well-aware, but for leaders like putin/trump, leadership is fear-based. Trump has allowed abuse/beatings/child abuse into immigrants’ lives and PTSD is just 1 result. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
aug 24, 2025, 7:18 pm • 4 1 • view
Absolutely heartbreaking, this will never be forgotten💔💔💔💔
aug 24, 2025, 2:27 pm • 4 0 • view
They want to cause PSTD for all hispanic population
aug 27, 2025, 2:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Are people still sent to CECOT, do we know?
aug 24, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Scarred for life, for seeking a better future in the US. Trump, the DHS and Rubio and others are to blame, I’m not religious but most of them are and according to the scriptures, they will not see the pearly gates of heaven.
aug 24, 2025, 2:10 pm • 4 0 • view
The U.S. is now one of the world’s worst human rights violators. What a disgrace Trump and Miller are.
aug 24, 2025, 3:53 pm • 1 0 • view
These poor souls have PTSD. Delivered courtesy of the #MelonFelon and all his sycophantic appointees!
aug 24, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
That petty dictator needs to be dragged in front of the Hague.
aug 24, 2025, 2:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Traumatized and tortured at the command of Stephen Miller and his mob boss.
aug 24, 2025, 9:57 pm • 2 0 • view
I am worried and so sorry for those men. So many long time emotional, pychological struggles ahead. With no financial resources available. We are all complicent in this f*cking mess when we look the other way.
aug 25, 2025, 8:14 am • 2 0 • view
do you feel like DT, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem are today's rapist sub-cult? they are raping and pillaging the american people
aug 24, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Without due process & for expediency, they were wrongfully imprisoned, will it be any wonder that a lot of people will end up hating America?
aug 24, 2025, 1:04 pm • 22 0 • view
Hating America is the only moral position.
aug 25, 2025, 4:26 am • 0 0 • view
Good people can differentiate between an evil administration (& their minions) and those who oppose it, even when they live in the same country. Misinfo & confusion from the top keeping people from coalescing for decency. It's a world wide problem. WE must fight it that way.
aug 25, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree. I'm speaking about nation state, not the people subject to it. America is a colony built on genocide and slavery. Fascism is it's logical end-game.
aug 25, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't agree. The ideals put forth in the Constitution are worthy. Just because a group is wrong does NOT mean they/their kids can't recover & do the right thing. Ignorant mean loudmouths are more evident-nature of the beast...There are more nice people everywhere that are trying to find their way.
aug 25, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Their ideals are evident by their actions. If they believed all people were created equal, they would have acted like it. The US has been an anti-democratic, white supremacist project from the jump.
aug 25, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I think a majority of the people would agree that there were and have been problems in the US from the start. No country will ever be perfect. The best ideals in the Constitution, not MAGAs, are worth working toward.
aug 25, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
CECOT is a morally wrong punishment in a universal sense.
aug 25, 2025, 1:36 am • 3 0 • view
It’s almost like the GOP wants enemies at our borders so that they can force us to live like Israel. Israel is their model. Mark my words. They want a police state.
aug 24, 2025, 1:40 pm • 36 3 • view
I'd like to see charges brought against the Tramp Admin (ALL those involved) in the Int'l Court at The Hague!!!
aug 24, 2025, 2:53 pm • 14 0 • view
Fascism depends on cruelty. And empathy is what kills it.
aug 24, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
We're creating generations of Latin Americans with PTSD, and it's absolutely unnecessary. None of ICE's actions have been necessary, lawful, or helpful.
aug 24, 2025, 1:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Here is the saddest quote: “Many Venezuelans supported President Donald Trump’s policies, especially after his first term. I don’t know how much this episode will change their views, but it has undoubtedly been a sobering moment for many.”
aug 24, 2025, 2:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Get armed, protect yourself and your neighbors from the ICE gestapo and the cops who back them up. We're sitting idle while fascists round people up and we all cooperate, acting like docile lambs to the slaughter.
aug 24, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Please don't ever forget that Stephen Miller and trump have already caused the same form of ptsd in thousands of little children through the evil child separation policy. 1200 are still missing. We couldn't even get small reparations out of the most empathetic President we've ever had.
aug 24, 2025, 10:38 pm • 3 0 • view
💔💔💔
aug 24, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
And Trump might get the Nobel Peace Prize.
aug 24, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
This is so sad. Remembering Noem and her Rolex filming in front of the El Salvador prison when these men gave up everything to seek the bare minimum to help their families.
aug 24, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Hurt people hurt people. The consequences for the actions of this administration will be felt for decades. They’ve created future radicals, terrorists, rapists, felons, & child molesters…or if you’re GOP or Christian…future priests & presidents.
aug 24, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
This drumpf pic perfectly displays his evil, rotting innards.
aug 24, 2025, 3:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Heartbreaking 💔
aug 24, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
That's what Americans voted for
aug 24, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
It is not. Trump himself has admitted that the muskrats fixed the election.
aug 24, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
It goes without saying: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I mean, how not?
aug 24, 2025, 6:32 pm • 4 0 • view
😔🤬
aug 24, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
We can't even begin to know the horrors they endured.
aug 24, 2025, 2:21 pm • 7 0 • view
This was a crime against humanity … what they did to these people. America has fallen so far, I don’t recognize my own country any longer. My heart aches for these men.
aug 24, 2025, 8:12 pm • 3 0 • view
I also think of the many men still in that hell, bc no one deserves that. No one.
aug 24, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
😢
aug 24, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
PTSD for the rest of their lives. 😔
aug 24, 2025, 1:29 pm • 29 3 • view
a very large portion of the world right now has PTSD
aug 25, 2025, 12:20 am • 2 0 • view
Wow... you are absolutely right about that, unfortunately. 😔 His hate, chaos and destruction are impacting us all.
aug 25, 2025, 11:05 am • 1 0 • view
Where's all the LAWYERS because we're going to Need EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM⁉️ We have laws to prevent this from happening 🤷♀️ AMERICAN CITIZENS are being swept up into this BULL SHIT⁉️ We need AMERICAN MILITARY FORCES to stand down immediately they're following UNLAWFUL ORDERS⁉️ GET OFF OUR STREETS 💙
aug 25, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 1 • view
Exactly. 😔
aug 24, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately, I am sure all their loved ones have it, too. What they witnessed and suffered through will impact them for life. They have to be scared all the time. 😔
aug 24, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1 0 • view
He's a traitor. Trials for him as well.
aug 25, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
Put Trump in a cage.
aug 24, 2025, 3:40 pm • 4 0 • view
with his posse
aug 24, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1 0 • view
#NotInMyName this is not how any civilized society operates or allows its officials to behave
aug 24, 2025, 2:12 pm • 4 1 • view
That’s exactly what Miller intended.
aug 24, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 24, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
This is heartbreaking.
aug 24, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Hell yeah, they have PTSD….why WOULDN’T THEY..?
aug 24, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
ALL of these Men are owed a HUGE compensatory package from the current REGIME. It will never make up for what they've been through but it may offer a little bit of relief for them & their Families to move forward. I wish peace & retribution for ALL of them! The BASTARDS must pay for their CRIMES!
aug 24, 2025, 2:43 pm • 2 0 • view
And treatment for PTSD at the least.
aug 24, 2025, 5:08 pm • 3 0 • view
They’re not on American soil anymore. Not likely they’ll get any relief from any government.
aug 24, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Once again thank you for doing this reporting.
aug 24, 2025, 1:35 pm • 2 0 • view
These people certainly could be experiencing Trauma. & Donald J.Trump's Administration/ Cabinet are Accountable for committing Crimes Against Humanity.
aug 24, 2025, 1:42 pm • 2 0 • view
I hope some day tRump and his magat followers know that fear.
aug 24, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
PTSD. Really, is this surprising? I’m sure many of the people they snatched have PTSD. Concentration camps in the us are awful as well.
aug 24, 2025, 2:03 pm • 11 0 • view
Sad and infuriating 😣🤬
aug 25, 2025, 6:17 am • 1 0 • view
I know hundreds of people who support sending people whose only crime was staying too long or coming in illegally to the US, to foreign torture prisons. We are not the same.
aug 24, 2025, 1:10 pm • 61 1 • view
They fill the pews every Sunday. One day we will figure out why our founders left their god out of our founding documents. It will be too late, but the enemy is now obvious to all.
aug 24, 2025, 2:36 pm • 3 0 • view
it's so disturbing. the fact that this didn't put an end to all of it was what makes me feel that we're in freefall now and I really don't know how bad it's going to get
aug 24, 2025, 1:43 pm • 27 0 • view
« some day everyone will have been against this « Document. Never forget. They will try to deny it one day
aug 24, 2025, 8:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you for a very good article & photos. This brought me to tears.
aug 24, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
The only purpose of sending innocent men to CECOT was to terrify everyone with their power.
aug 24, 2025, 2:44 pm • 7 1 • view
At least now we know the point of the, at the time, seemingly insane tariffs. Too bad these countries didn't have Intel stock to trade instead of their consciences. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
aug 24, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 24, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Noem must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law! Oh edit, just send her to CECOT!
aug 24, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m so sorry that this country, a once great democracy, has become a sadistic authoritarian regime that’s so racist that it targets ANY brown ppl, no matter their innocent or guilt, & destroys their lives because they are BROWN! How can anyone do this to another person? They’re PEOPLE! It must STOP!
aug 24, 2025, 10:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Exile Assuming, one day, the USA becomes a functioning Democracy, then all the people who defied the constitution, broke the law, and carried out illegal orders must be punished. If not, we have no justice. I vote for permanent exile. I do not want to pay tax dollars for imprisoning traitors.
aug 24, 2025, 2:30 pm • 3 0 • view
I vote we fire them out of cannons into the Gulf of Mexico.
aug 24, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Permanent exile means burdening the citizens of other countries with them.
aug 30, 2025, 11:09 am • 0 0 • view
only if someone will have them my plan: strip citizenship, strip the passport, put them on a boat and say, goodbye, never return, you are not welcome. May tha t prison in El Salvador would like them 🤷🏻♂️
aug 30, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Send them to Mexican prisons.
aug 24, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Romania took care of their tyrants. JS
aug 24, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
How small must you be if you need to be this evil and cruel to feel strong?
aug 24, 2025, 3:22 pm • 1 0 • view
The current government needs to be sued into oblivion.
aug 24, 2025, 6:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Cruelty is the point.
aug 24, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
This was the point that the camp was set up to create permanent fear
aug 24, 2025, 2:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Sadness
aug 24, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Good story Thank you
aug 24, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Heartbreaking: “She told me that she couldn’t sleep unless her 1-year-old grandson Jared was with her, the two of them nestled together, with a picture of José Manuel as a child hanging above the bed. The two were identical as children, and she clung to her grandson to feel near to her own son.”
aug 24, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I encourage people to look up their local groups and organize against this depravity. This American government has no right to exist and must be opposed vigorously. They're coming for everyone different from their vision of a racist and corporate hierarchy. Make. Them. Angry. Find your allies.
aug 25, 2025, 1:38 am • 2 0 • view
Comment for algorithm. Heck this is sad.
aug 24, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Bluesky doesn’t work like this. Comment when you like, but your replies aren’t boosting anything. If you want more people to see a post, repost it to your followers.
aug 24, 2025, 1:20 pm • 9 0 • view
Is this what America does?? Ship you off to countries that you don’t even speak the language, to a prison, When your only crime is to want a better life for your family??
aug 24, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump’s cruelty succeeded in making USians miserable!
aug 24, 2025, 10:42 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 24, 2025, 3:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Don't forget that daddy was doing business with Hitler prior to WWII...
aug 24, 2025, 5:04 pm • 2 0 • view
So we’re creating more urgent needs for trauma informed mental health practitioners. Meanwhile, the states, clutching to ancient processes and unwieldy databases are holding up the verification and credentialing of practitioners. This archaic BS is how Republicans are made.
aug 24, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Right up there with extended solitary confinement - it's cruelty beyond measure.
aug 24, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
“Highway” and “Elite” are two nonbelievers that invaded a church I attended solely to abuse their church members they have a fiduciary responsibility to protect and serve and protect their private information. Please hold this criminal organization accountable as they are a shell company
aug 24, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
that has no integrity whatsoever in this country and will kill anyone who tries to take away their freedoms to illegal activities
aug 24, 2025, 1:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I look forward to the war crimes accusations and trials of FORMER US politicians if we survive this period of governmental lawlessness.
aug 24, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Was/is this human an American citizen? If not,every illegal must fathom this can be a probability...I will waste no empathy on law breakers,and I know these are good humans but I want a world where humans obey proper laws and they did not.In my world his original country would be livable,and no need
aug 24, 2025, 7:32 pm • 1 0 • view
read: "I'm an idiot and equate laws with justice and will casually ignore multiple terrible regimes passed laws saying their terrible actions were legal"
aug 25, 2025, 1:21 am • 1 0 • view
Are you trying to justify a misdemeanor with a death sentence ? Do you advocate maiming the hungry for stealing a loaf of bread ?
aug 24, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
As a taxpayer, I know the cost will be borne by us, but I hope these people sue the absolute shit out of the US government. And they should personally sue Noem & that fat fuck in charge of immigration.
aug 24, 2025, 1:03 pm • 16 0 • view
The Fantaführer rigged the justice system already. I guess it’s to little to late.
aug 24, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Fantafuhrer is good. (don’t know how to umlaut)
aug 24, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
You know what was done to them that traumatised them so badly & there are too many liberals who will just deny it unless it's put into plain words verbatim: bsky.app/profile/nadi...
aug 24, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Liberals? Really?
aug 24, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
The John Locke -believing sort of liberal, not what Repugs call liberals.
aug 24, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Donnie and his gang are criminals, a Mafia
aug 24, 2025, 2:37 pm • 2 0 • view
📌
aug 25, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Disgusting how much America has given a minority of racists power to inflict a deep scar on the American psyche. Republicans are not going to stop this abomination. They created it to placate a minority of narrow minded bigoted Americans so they can give tax cuts to the ultra wealthy.
aug 24, 2025, 2:17 pm • 14 0 • view
I can't understand any woman voting for Trump, choosing the rapist over the law, it's shocking.
aug 24, 2025, 4:11 pm • 6 0 • view
I know a lot of MAGA women, unfortunately. Most have unresolved trauma but instead of dealing with it like an adult, they've turned into childish bullies who uphold the same systems that traumatized them. Misery loves company.
aug 25, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view
Given the distribution of the electoral college and the concentration of minorities, they would have made a difference as they did with Obama.
aug 24, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
State sanction terror and torture. My god what have we allowed?
aug 24, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Class action suit. Was a horrible cruel stunt. Done for photo ops and fearmongering.
aug 24, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
PTSD.
aug 24, 2025, 3:07 pm • 5 0 • view
Vast intimidation and in trepidation! With us tax payers footing that bill. The orange conman is trying to reconcile how he was treated as a ‘child’ by acting like a vindicktive child😡
aug 24, 2025, 4:58 pm • 1 0 • view
This is what happens when Republican hateful, ignorant monsters vote for a hateful monster. America has lost it's way and now it's going to pay with more people homeless, out of jobs and lost to die alone.
aug 24, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view