DHS accused media outlets of promoting a sympathetic narrative about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a deportee who allegedly faced severe torture in CECOT prison, El Salvador. Lawyers reported he was subjected to beatings, sleep deprivation, food deprivation, and psychological torture. Despite a court order against his deportation, he was forcibly sent back to El Salvador, where he faced brutal conditions in a prison environment described as overcrowded and constantly illuminated. In response, DHS criticized media portrayal of Garcia as a misunderstood victim, citing his alleged criminal background.
The Department of Homeland Security accused media outlets of peddling a sympathetic narrative around Trump deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia for reporting on new allegations detailed in a chilling new legal complaint of the graphic torture and abuse he suffered inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. Lawyers for Abrego Garcia, who was removed from the U.S. despite a court order blocking his deportation, said he was beaten, denied sleep, deprived of food, and psychologically tortured for nearly a month inside CECOT, the sprawling mega-prison hailed by President Nayib Bukele.
Abrego Garcia, who was living in Maryland with his American wife and children, was deported to El Salvador in March. According to the complaint filed this week, he was then frog-marched into CECOT where he was struck repeatedly with batons and forced to change into prison garb under assault, his lawyers say. The complaint describes his cell as overcrowded, windowless, and illuminated 24/7.
Once again the media is falling all over themselves to defend Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This illegal alien is an MS-13 gang member, alleged human trafficker, and a domestic abuser. The media's sympathetic narrative about this criminal illegal gang member has completely fallen apart.
These allegations are horrific. If this was an American prison it would violate the 8th Amendment. This is absolutely cruel and unusual punishment. Nobody should try to rationalize or justify this kind of treatment.
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