Overview

• President Trump’s administration deported over 250 Venezuelan migrants under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in March and sent them to CECOT without access to legal counsel or family contact.
• Freed detainees have testified to widespread torture, including daily beatings with wooden bats, psychological torment and denial of basic necessities.
• Survivors reported being restrained in tight shackles, coerced into head shaving under threat of violence, shot at with rubber bullets and subjected to sexual abuse by guards.
• The Senate confirmed Emil Bove to the Third Circuit despite a DOJ whistleblower allegation that he and other officials conspired to mislead courts about their intent to send migrants to CECOT.
• Former detainees such as Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel have filed lawsuits against the U.S. government to challenge their wrongful detention and clear their names.