60 Minutes: “U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records”

Immigration Hub had this to say about the “60 Minutes”segment about the Trump administration’s removals of Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act:

“Washington, D.C. –  On Sunday night, 60 Minutes aired a searing report on the mass removals of Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. The report revealed that the majority (75%) of men had no criminal record—yet were profiled based on tattoos and decades-old social media evidence. The segment also exposed the cruelty of these operations, showing detainees with shaved heads, violently searched and manhandled inside what reporter Cecilia Vega called `the hardest of hardcore prisons.’ All of it, the report made clear, is part of a deliberate campaign to instill fear and justify mass disappearances through spectacle and misinformation.”

Here is the 60 Minutes transcript.

KJ