The 29-year-old is now detained in Tennessee after being returned to the US and is awaiting trial on human smuggling charges.

According to new court documents filed on Wednesday as part of a lawsuit his wife brought against the Trump administration, Mr Ábrego García and 20 other detainees were repeatedly beaten when they arrived at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Centre, or Cecot.

Once there, according to the documents, Mr Ábrego García and 20 other deported inmates “were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation”.

Mr Ábrego García has also alleged that he and the other prisoners were “forced to kneel” from 9 PM to 6 AM, “with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion”.

At one point, guards allegedly threatened to confine him with gang members who would “tear” him apart.

His mistreatment led to him losing 30lbs (14kg) within the first two weeks of his incarceration in El Salvador, according to the complaint.

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Exactly. The prosecutions of people in their 90s were mostly low-level guards in concentration camps. So there is no comfort in knowing you were just a rank-and-file ICE agent. And it’s not like they can argue they don’t know what they’re doing is wrong. If you’re covering your face while working in law enforcement, you know damn well what you’re doing is morally unforgivable. These people are not going to be able to plead ignorance. They know what they’re doing is wrong.

    And they need to feel fear every day of their lives. Just like the people they are terrorizing now, they need to live in fear that any day, a knock on their door might come that will tear their whole live apart. They need to know the fear they took so much glee in instilling in others.