Because U.S. deportations route migrants into El Salvador’s CECOT without due process, accountability shifts offshore. Families lost contact for months; abrupt releases hinge on opaque negotiations.
— Outsourcing migration enforcement to authoritarian partners reshapes human-rights liability, congressional oversight of aid/conditionality, and legality of third-country detention in U.S. border policy.
Photography and text by Adriana Loureiro Fernández for ProPublica
2025.08.19
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The article chronicles five Venezuelan men deported from the U.S., detained for months in CECOT without family contact, then abruptly flown home.
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