Matt Gaetz visited El Salvador's mega-prison and saw people drained of hope. He then pitched it to Stephen Miller
Source: The Independent
Friday 25 April 2025 16:47 BST
Matt Gaetz visited the El Salvador mega-prison last summer and pitched the idea of sending migrants there to Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, according to a report. Trump’s failed nominee to lead the Justice Department was invited on a diplomatic visit by El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele in July 2024, TIME reports.
Bukele made Gaetz an offer during a dinner that he would be willing to imprison migrants that Trump wanted removed from the U.S. inside El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, according to the outlet. The next day, Gaetz was given a tour of the facility, which human rights groups have described as a “tropical gulag” rife with abuses.
“The conditions had zapped the inhabitants of any will to fight,” Gaetz told TIME. “It’s tough to see the state of the human condition drained of hope.” Gaetz then pitched the idea of sending migrants to the mega-prison to immigration hardliner Miller, a source told the outlet, who then presented it to Trump.
“One of the reasons I like it is because it would be much less expensive than our prison system, and I think it would actually be a greater deterrent,” Trump said in an interview with TIME.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/matt-gaetz-el-salvador-prison-trump-deportation-b2739596.html
These people are a bunch of craven sickos.

walkingman
(9,374 posts)ananda
(32,151 posts)They have completely lost their humanity.
MadameButterfly
(3,060 posts)FakeNoose
(37,600 posts)... unless Chump's campaign team asked him to.
flvegan
(65,067 posts)rubbersole
(9,919 posts)...with fake IDs unnecessary.
Brother Buzz
(38,612 posts)
SWBTATTReg
(25,414 posts)that if someone is involved w/ politics, they literally get away w/ crap that is buried forever?
Qutzupalotl
(15,380 posts)Crazytown
LymphocyteLover
(8,158 posts)MadameButterfly
(3,060 posts)and Hitler of course
badhair77
(4,886 posts)Is it wrong of me to want to see them suffer in interminable pain.
ShazzieB
(20,898 posts)On the one hand, I believe in principle that it's wrong to wish ill on another person. Bit it's awfully hard not to wish ill on people who wish it on so many others and do their utmost to make it happen.
Blue Owl
(56,508 posts)Kid Berwyn
(20,689 posts)Losers.
Grins
(8,469 posts)Evolve Dammit
(20,814 posts)Mblaze
(583 posts)But it's a boost for Republican evil in the world.
MadameButterfly
(3,060 posts)How do you deter honest green card holding legal immigrants who are fleeing terrible conditions elsewhere?
Most of them will come anyway. They might learn not to get tattoos. The people who will stop coming are the ones who aren't desperate: the tourists.
dchill
(42,608 posts)Godot51
(494 posts).. he should have been detained.
SupportSanity
(1,450 posts)How can they NOT find this absolutely irresistable?
This is who they are. NOTHING different than Nazis other than they speak english.
To be able to watch human suffering and truly enjoy it? Heaven.....
Let's order up some more......
NoMoreRepugs
(11,406 posts)sakabatou
(44,895 posts)"Yes, you're right. We need to destroy their hope."
-Fire Lord Ozai on how to demoralize the Earth Kingdom
karin_sj
(1,218 posts)Every single one of them.
vapor2
(2,515 posts)Miles Archer
(19,660 posts)The Kilmar Abrego Garcia situation should have been an expected outcome by anyone familiar with the Eisenhower-era program. Wrongful deportations of people living here legally were part of what happened. We know Miller doesn't care because he's the chief cheerleader for the real dog whistle under Trump's "Make America Great Again" fetish (TRUE MESSAGE: MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN).
oasis
(52,351 posts)I eagerly await the day it finally happens.
3825-87867
(1,428 posts)BEFORE trump won?
It would seem probably Gaetz already KNEW Trump would win and told Bukele...that the fix was in.
Just a thought.
Godot51
(494 posts)Shit sticks together, too.