Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“When the Trump administration was snatching people off the street and sending them to CECOT — and as it’s now trying to send people to third-party countries where they’re likely to be tortured — the MAGA faithful argued that violent gang members who enter the U.S. illegally don’t deserve due process. They’re now making a similar argument about Trump’s summary executions of alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean …. Let’s say you believe that people who came here illegally or are members of a gang deserve to be sent to an overseas torture prison. (And let’s set aside what that belief says about your humanity.) Without due process, there’s no way to know that the people they sent to CECOT really were violent gang members who entered the country illegally. We had only the administration’s word. And that isn’t much.” (10/03/25)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/yes-the-trump-administration-is-eviscerating