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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.

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May 22, 2025
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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…

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