Exiled by Design: How Trump’s Deportation Machine Went Global
From South Sudan to CECOT, from toddlers to legal residents, this isn’t immigration enforcement. It’s a purge.
We knew CECOT was only the beginning.
When the Trump administration began quietly deporting Venezuelan migrants, many of them asylum seekers, to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison, it triggered outrage. In retrospect, that move wasn’t an endpoint. It was a blueprint.
What has emerged since is nothing short of a global system of exile, an authoritarian ar…




