Morning Dispatch
Mary L. Trump at The Good in Us:
Over the last few months, some erstwhile supporter’s of Donald have started to notice his blatant disregard for human life, as if this disregard is new. I personally have been aware of this since the 1970s. Others who started paying attention during the 2015/2016 presidential campaign have also long been well aware of his cruelty and lack of empathy—particularly towards the more vulnerable among us. As the Trump regime ramps up its mass deportations of migrants to El Salvador's, infamous mega prisons even the likes of Joe Rogan, who helped get him elected, are starting to be alarmed. [...] What Rogan is referring to here is the fact that innocent people are mistakenly being identified as gang members and being deported without any due process whatsoever. ICE doesn’t even know for a fact whether or not these men are who ICE claims they are. Knowing the fascists behind these lawless acts are the so-called “Border Czar” Tom Homan and Secretary of Homeland Security and puppy murderer Kristi Noem, I have every reason to believe the “mistakes” are intentional. The gay hairdresser Rogan referred to is actually makeup artist, Andry José Hernández Romero, who was deported based on his having a crown tattoo. Romeros is described by those who know him as a kind, creative soul who is an active member in his church drama troupe. I have one question for Rogan: When did you start paying attention? Because if this is the first inkling you have of what Donald Trump and the sycophants and fascist with whom he surrounds himself are capable of, you clearly have not been paying attention. [...] Here's an incomplete list of some of the men who have been wrongfully detained and illegally transported to the notorious CECOT mega-prison:
Franco Tiapa, 26, from Venezuela who was simply deported for having the wrong kind of tattoo.
Daniel Camargo, a 20 year old asylum seeker deported for a tattoo of his daughter’s name and praying hands.
Neri Borges, a Dallas man, who was arrested and deported because of an autism awareness tattoo he got in honor of his brother.
Luis Carlos José Marcano Silva, a 26-year-old barber who was detained at an immigration hearing in Miami last month because he has a tattoo of Jesus of Nazareth and one of his daughters name.
Jerce Reyes Barrios, a former professional footballer who was deported based on a tattoo of a soccer ball with a crown on top of it, in honor of his favorite soccer team, Real Madrid.
Francisco Casique, who was deported for having tattoos that say “Live in the Moment” and “Family” in Spanish.
Casique’s family has published evidence that he has no criminal background whatsoever. One has to wonder if it will matter. The Trump regime has bestowed upon itself the authority to deport Venezuelan migrants they claim are part of Tren de Aragua, a violent gang from that country, based primarily on their tattoos or the kinds of clothes they wear.
[...] Donald and his regime claim people chose to put him in office specifically for them to be as cruel as humanly possible to people with brown skin—especially if they're undocumented workers who have allegedly committed crimes. The idea that they would take care specifically to target such people was unbelievable from the outset—especially given the Trump regime’s hostility to all marginalized communities and its clear intention to do away with Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment (Section three has already been rendered inoperative). So many of the men detained by ICE and sent to El Salvador have no criminal records. ICE agents targeted them simply because they had “suspicious” tattoos and brown skin. It is an exercise in petty power designed to elevate the worst among us. We are throwing the keys over to the brown shirts.
Even Joe Rogan is calling the CECOT situation in which people were wrongly sent there an abomination.