This America

Trump’s Solution

Before the FINAL SOLUTION

A clean concentration camp is still a concentration camp.

Trump lied. We told you. You believed him. And, you voted for This America.

President Nayib Bukele, of El Salvador, confirmed the country will take “dangerous” inmates from US prisons — yes, U.S. citizens. For a fee from the US government, U.S citizens will be shipped out of their own country to El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison.

Conditions at CECOT prison are grim and inhumane. Prison inmates are denied contact with families or lawyers — no visitations by anyone from outside the penitentiary are permitted. Inmates are forced to confess without representation. Almost an entire third of those detained in El Salvador are innocent, according to the Socorro Juridico Humanitario rights group.

Prisoners, wearing hand and feet shackles, are only permitted out of their squatting-room-only cells for two reasons. 1) They are allowed to step into the prison hallway to exercise 30 minutes. 2) Inmates may be taken to another room in the prison for a remote appearance at a court hearing.

They shower with water from a large basin inside their cells and collect water from a large plastic barrel to drink.

Their staple diet is beans or pasta, with the government expressly prohibiting meat.

They are watched 24 hours a day by CCTV cameras and guards. [France 24]

Inmates sleep on stainless steel bunks without mattresses. For now, the already overcrowded place looks clean in images we’ve been allowed to see. That’s all you can say.

In every other respect, the prison looks like something we’ve seen before. It’s something which ended in horror. Americans fought and died alongside our Allies to end the horror and bring its perpetrators to justice.

I wrote in a recent article about the practical outcomes of Trump’s decade of stochastic terrorism. The post postulated what that looks like in real world terms. January 6th, Family Separation, and the proposed massive expansion of Guantanamo to an immigrant internment camp are outcomes of rightwing rhetoric — it’s become the…