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  1. The CECOT segment was accidentally released in Canada, making its rounds on BlueSky now with alt links as they get taken down. Obv YouTube is going to be taken down.

  2. it’s exactly as horrible and damning as you imagined – Abu Ghraib on steroids, with Trump and Kristi Noem directly implicating themselves on video.

  3. mistertickertape on

    Watched it and Jesus Christ it is absolutely *damning*. Steven Miller is going directly to hell if such a thing exists. Bari Weiss has proven herself to be a convenient, upward failing idiot and she’s just getting started. She reminds me of Kari Lake in so many ways – she has that perpetually pitiful, whiney look on her face.

  4. the tactics used here are copy paste from the era of chattel slavery. these people have been foaming at the fucking mouth to be able to do this again

  5. AngryMillennialFU on

    Clearly spiked becauss political activist Wiess didn’t want negative pr for trump. Her requirement that they must have comment from the us govt is clearly designed to protect trump. Fuck this shit. We are torturing migrants and CBS is covering it up!!!!!

  6. Summary:

    This transcript details a **controversial immigration policy** where the Trump administration deported hundreds of **Venezuelan asylum seekers** to a notorious maximum-security prison in **El Salvador**. Despite government claims that these men were dangerous terrorists, investigations by **Human Rights Watch** and academic researchers found that the vast majority had no criminal history. While held at the **CECOT facility**, the deportees reportedly endured **systematic torture**, including physical beatings, sexual abuse, and prolonged isolation in windowless cells. The report highlights a disturbing discrepancy between **official US rhetoric** praising the prison’s efficiency and documented evidence of **human rights violations**. Ultimately, the sources suggest that the United States used these extreme measures as a **deterrent strategy** against future migration.

    Analysis:

    The primary elements the administration would likely find objectionable include:

    * **Contradiction of Criminality Claims:** While the administration characterized the 252 Venezuelan deportees as **”heinous monsters,” “terrorists,” and “the worst of the worst,”** the segment presents evidence to the contrary. Data from Human Rights Watch and **ICE’s own records** revealed that nearly half of the men had no criminal history at all, and only **3% had been sentenced for a violent or potentially violent crime**.
    * **Exposure of Flawed Identification Methods:** The segment criticizes the administration’s “point system” used to identify gang members. It highlights that **immigration agents used tattoos as a primary indicator**, despite experts stating that the specific Venezuelan gang in question (Tren de Aragua) does not use tattoos to signal membership. One deportee noted an agent dismissed his denials of gang affiliation simply because he was **”Venezuelan”**.
    * **Documentation of Systematic Torture:** The sources detail “four months of hell” at the CECOT prison, involving **systematic torture, savage beatings with batons, sexual assault by guards, and being forced to drink “filthy” water from toilets**. This directly conflicts with President Trump’s public **”admiration”** for the prison system, which he described as **”great facilities”**.
    * **Allegations of Misleading Public Relations:** The segment highlights a video recorded by **DHS Secretary Christy Noem** at the prison, where she thanked El Salvador for incarcerating “our terrorists”. However, the segment uses digital forensic evidence to show that the men featured in her video were **not the Venezuelans** the US had sent, but were actually Salvadoran gang members used as “props”.
    * **Circumvention of Due Process:** The administration used a **”centuries-old wartime power”** to deport the men immediately without due process, an “unusual strategy” that the segment notes sparked ongoing legal battles. One deportee, a college student with no criminal record, was deported despite having a scheduled asylum appointment.
    * **Financial and Future Policy Implications:** The segment reveals the US paid **$4.7 million** to El Salvador to house these deportees. Furthermore, it discloses that the administration has arranged similar deals to “offload” deportees to other countries with documented histories of torture, such as **South Sudan and Uganda**.

    In summary, the segment portrays the administration as having **knowingly sent individuals into a “hell” of torture**—violating UN standards—based on flawed or fabricated criminal justifications to send a deterrent message to other migrants.

  7. This will quickly become one of the most watched Sixty Minutes segments in recent memory, and CBS will get zero ad revenue for all their work on it. Genius.

  8. Bari Weiss is a detestable piece of shit. Vile scum that should never live a day on this earth without harassment.

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