A WARNING must be issued here:
The material documents extreme forms of degradation inside the CECOT prison complex in El Salvador. It is not for the faint of heart — and yet it offers an unfiltered glimpse into what happens when human beings are no longer seen as individuals, but merely as threats and statistics. Some of the video footage underpinning this text comes from the notorious CECOT prison complex in El Salvador and was partly recorded covertly. It shows bodies packed tightly together—a hell on earth—with people lined up like merchandise. When the president announced that around 139,000 people had been deported, Thomas Homan spoke of “good numbers.” Homan, a man who has become the embodiment of the new deportation state, had already served under Trump 1.0 as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — the agency responsible for carrying out arrests, detentions, and deportations. He is a technocrat of severity: someone who sees deportations not as exceptions, but as a fundamental task of government. In television appearances, Homan often presented himself like a prosecutor in uniform, speaking in sharp, uncompromising sentences and treating immigration not as a human reality, but as a “security issue.” Now, back in power under Trump 2.0, he presents the new deportation figures like an accountant proudly unveiling a particularly profitable quarterly report.
The numbers themselves — spreadsheets rendered into policy — seemed more important than the fate of those behind them: workers, mothers, children, the elderly. At least 75 percent of those deported, according to investigations and reports from human rights organizations, had no criminal records, no ties to gangs, no charges against them — other than the fact that they existed and had been born in the wrong place. In a country once proud of the words “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,” a new maxim has taken hold under Donald Trump: Count them, expel them, forget them. And as the statistics mount, images from the deportation centers are beginning to leak into public view — images that are hard to bear. Secret footage from CECOT reveals not just the consequences of state violence — it exposes an ideology where a person’s worth is measured solely by their utility or perceived threat. What the cameras capture cannot be denied: Faces marked by fear. Bodies stacked under harsh neon light. A world where dignity becomes little more than a fading echo.
All of our research will be consolidated next week and submitted to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). This includes recorded evidence of human rights violations from the CECOT prison complex in El Salvador. The evidence is intended for referral to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, or I/A Court HR). The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, is the highest judicial body of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the field of human rights and is responsible for adjudicating serious human rights violations throughout North, Central, and South America.
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