Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer
“For two decades, the US military base at Guantanamo Bay has been a preferred spot to indefinitely detain individuals the US government does not like, mostly accused terrorists. In most cases these are folks the government would like to imprison for life but whom they don’t want to have tried in the US, either because they don’t really want to try to prove their accusations or due to public backlash against repatriating some admittedly bad folks. Whatever the reasons, the net effect is a Constitution-free zone where things we take for granted like due process and habeas corpus don’t obtain. … apparently [Donald Trump] has found an even better place — the CECOT prison in El Salvador. We are seeing now that this is one step even beyond Gitmo — while judges seem to have only limited reach into Gitmo, they do have some. But they have no reach into El Salvador.” (04/15/25)