Gay makeup artist deported by ICE describes horrific torture at CECOT

Was it rape rape

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Did he enjoy the sexual part?

Oh fuck off, R3

Heinous

Now write a harrowing book like "Midnight Express" and make big money.

I hope Pedro Pascal plays him on the big screen. Easy Oscar.

What’s most infuriating is our government is still slandering these men! Calling them liars to protect Bukele is disgusting.

Holocaust vibes, & I don’t say this lightly.

How the fuck can Americans not see this?

When you make America unsafe for people who are NOT criminals, & in this country legally, you make this country unsafe for us all, including Jews.

Fuck Trump

Fuck Noem

USA needs Nuremberg trials for what they did to these men

I’m so glad he has been freed.

The next Democrat president should have the Salvadoran leader murdered.

Kristi Noem is a child of Satan.

[quote]r9 = How the fuck can Americans not see this?

The Nuremberg trials were staged by liberators. No one is coming to save us, R10.

Well, it looks like he got to brush his perfect teeth regularly, at least.

R14 Great clip. Americans may not know the details but we know it is bad. The place is basically a concentration camp. They're sending people to "prisons" with no formal sentence... Exactly what these folks serving? What is the length of their 'sentence." None. They're sending them to die or to be tortured.

This American isn't surprised by the gay hairstylist's remarks. What surprises me is that he got out of that place alive.

This entire period is going to be a historical embarrassment for the US.

This lovely man--I am just so overwhelmed with happiness for his release. Look at his eyes in that photo. I can't even imagine the relief he must feel to have been freed from that hell hole.

He has a long path ahead of him in terms of trauma recovery. He's suffered so much in his short life. I hope he's able to apply for political asylum somewhere in Europe that will be a less cruel and punishing place than America where he can find safety and healing.

As a former drag queen, I do not like to see our makeup artists abused!

Poor lamb [bold]: (

There's no such thing as a *former* drag queen, r19. You just don't have your face on.

skiddy panties fave made themselves known

Turns out everything we learned about America; every time we said the pledge of allegiance—it’s all a lie

Many things about patriotism & governance are a lie, R22, in almost every single country. The more developed and financially stable a country becomes, the more people in political power lie & engage in hypocrisy, to varying degrees.

Currently, our country and its democratic norms/systems, have been hijacked by bad actors who proclaim themselves above all else, to be genuine Christians, which they are not.

These bad actors have lost their sense of what TRUE Christianity is all about, as their initial beliefs & intentions have been usurped by the idea & reality of power, & money - EVERYTHING Jesus Christ condemned.

R22 Just figuring that out?

terrible. hope he can come back to us. why does everyone keep calling him the gay make up artist? what does gay have to do with anything?

R9 I think the Trumpers see it but don't care. They complain about Spanish speaking and are happy to see it go. They don't want to pay for "illegals" healthcare. An "illegal" hit my car and drove off. An "illegal" did me wrong and got away with it by pretending not to know English. That sort of thing.

They don't care what happens to them, even if it violates rights. They say they broke the law first by being illegal. They can't see the erosion in democracy.

R25 I think because it reinforces the ludicrousness of the charges being levied against him by MAGA that he's secretly a member of one of Mexico's most terrifying, violent gangs, when it's clear to anyone with eyes that he's a flouncing Nancy Boy with a contour kit.

R25 Narco cartels are absurdly macho and don't allow homos

R23 They're political cynics. The evangelical movement is an entirely artificial construction of conservative politics. They created a church with an explicit goal of churning out a voting base.

Remember, with MAGA, cruelty is the point.

I was going to ask where the local Trumptards were, how they could justify this…

It’s probably about time for a makeup tutorial in here

He's in a gang!

It's a singing and dancing gang, like the ones in West Side Story!

This dangerous criminal needs to go back to prison!

Gay makeup artist tearfully reunited with family after release from El Salvador

NEW: Deported makeup artist FREED in prisoner swap with Venezuela

R30 Well posted.

Awful. So many are in denial about it or turn a blind eye because it's easier. And obviously Trump et al will label it as "fake news" and carry on. Rinse and repeat.

As someone said earlier, cruelty is part of it. These people are angry at their lives and directing said anger towards immigrants makes them feel better about themselves.

Can all the men who were wrongly imprisoned sue Trump and co.?

I’m trying to understand. He claimed asylum in the U.S., stating he faced persecution in Venezuela.

R39, where have you been for the last 15 years???

Have you ever researched the history of Venezuela, particularly, that history in the last 20 or so years?

Venezuela is a failed state. There’s absolutely no reason for Venezuelans to remain there, unless they’re part of their corrupt government, & even then, it’s dicey AF.

[quote] Venezuela is a failed state. There’s absolutely no reason for Venezuelans to remain there, unless they’re part of their corrupt government, & even then, it’s dicey AF.

And it wasn't safe to be gay in that country, either.

I think he was claiming asylum on that basis.

He should have gone to Canada

[quote] And it wasn't safe to be gay in that country, either. I think he was claiming asylum on that basis.

But now he’s in Venezuela. If he’s embraced by his community and the government, that’s not going to help his asylum claim.

Didn't Trump and co. already deny his asylum claim out of spite after they shipped him to El Salvador?

R38 Kilmar is suing DHS saying he was tortured. DHS continues to call him a monster and threaten to send him back before his day in court.

I somehow missed this — omg. He’s alive and out of there. I sadly thought he was probably dead.

What a nightmare— and what a profound national shame. First that depraved and evil things like this are even happening, and second that a large % of American voters are ok with it or even glad about it.

Also the poor man fled Venezuela because he was personally in danger of violence and murder. Now he’s been sent back there.

America needs to wake the fuck up. Miscarriages of justice like this are only the tip of the iceberg. Holocaust level atrocities like this are happening everyday and…business as usual I guess? People should be rioting in the streets.

Kristi Noem is ACTUALLY evil. Mean. Thick-headed. Devoid of humanity. Smug. Hypocritical. And the face of the new Christianity. And with an agenda that can no longer be denied or ignored.