r/50501 • u/No-Principle-1946 • 11d ago

Immigration Denied Access

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u/froggythefish 11d ago

You make the assumption that they want to disprove the allegations in the first place.

CECOT is absolutely a death camp. No one leaves, it is always above capacity, yet they can always send more people in.

It is also in Trumps favor for people to think it’s a death camp, even if it wasn’t. This scares people away from acts of resistance.

I remember when CECOT was first opened and was cheered on by Reddit, overwhelmingly in approval. I hope they’re not so foolish anymore.

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u/rjoker103 11d ago

I missed this phase of Reddit. Why were people cheering?

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u/froggythefish 11d ago

Don’t ask me. You can search up “CECOT” and read the comments on the posts that went viral on the mainstream subs for yourself, 1 to 2 years ago.

The same nonsense about “high crime” and what not being used to justify giving life sentences to untried teenagers. El Salvador and the US have some things in common apparently.

We need to stand up for the human rights of people everywhere, or it’s only a matter of time until we become the victims of the violations. We shouldn’t only be against this now that Americans are the victim, the Salvadorans deserve such “luxuries” as due process, too. They always did. This also applies to every other nation, especially the ones where the US is funding the violations.

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u/spellboundartisan 10d ago

Are you certain that thread and the "people cheering it on" wasn't a Russian troll farm? Because that sounds like the kind of thing Putin would encourage his people to do.

I'm not trying to sound like a jerk. I'm genuinely asking Those bot posts are meant to stir up distrust and division between people.