Just as I was about to explain to you, my dears, what was funny about that joke - and there is no worse punishment than that - explaining a joke - they threw me a link - those who strictly ensure that all links that should be thrown are thrown to the right person - to an agency news story about the latest controversy related to the president Trampa (Trump) - which refers to his invocation of the forgotten Alien Enemies Act from the distant 1798 - and the deportation of a group of criminals - "the worst of the worst" - and undocumented immigrants - from the United States of America to El Salvador.
And what can I tell you - except that it is impossible to remain indifferent after seeing the stunning visual material (photos and video) that - along with a series of typically sparse, but very precise information - was served to us by the global media last Monday - which related to the deportation of 238 members of the Tren de Aragua criminal group (de la banda criminal Tren de Aragua) and 23 members of the Mara Salvatrucha criminal gang (de la pandilla Mara Salvatrucha - MS-13, for short) from the United States to El Salvador - straight to el CECOT (el Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo - Center for the Suppression of Terrorism) - el Secot - a mega-prison "for the worst of the worst" - located near the town of Tecoluca - 74 km from San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, in a southeasterly direction (if anyone wants to check the position on Google Maps) - and which has a capacity of 40.000 prisoners - making it, at the moment, the largest prison in the world - and also the strictest.
It should be emphasized that the phrase "worst of the worst" - the worst of the worst - stands for the US Supreme Court, and the phrase refers, by definition, to - I will quote: child rapists, sadists, terrorists, mass and serial killers and all other perpetrators of the most serious crimes - to the worst of the worst, in short - and CECOT was created precisely for that category of criminals - for members of criminal groups and gangs - but still...
It is impossible to remain indifferent after the scenes from CECOT - a whole series of questions arise - including those related to the spatial concept of the prison - or rather to the organization of prisoners' lives in CECOT, which would primarily refer to the so-called daily routine - just a piece of a very complex puzzle...
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OK, let's go in order...
During his (later) election campaign, Trump promised several times to herd millions of illegal immigrants into detention centers and deport them from the US - and in his inaugural address on January 20 of this year, he promised to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to "eliminate the presence of all foreign criminal networks, groups, and gangs whose goal is to export destructive crime - devastating crime - on American soil".
At the time when the aforementioned Act was passed - at the end of the 1798th century - the USA was on the verge of war with France (The Quasi-War, 1800 - XNUMX) - it is, therefore, a (pre-)war law - and regardless of the fact that this conflict - let's call it that - never developed into a "real war" - because neither side officially declared war on the other - and the fact that this conflict mainly took place on the seas - along the east coast of the USA and in the Caribbean - the general climate in the USA at that time, in anticipation of the war, was extremely anti-emigrant - which directly pointed to the need for significant expansion of the powers of the then president Adams (John Adams, 1735 - 1826), so that, in the event that the American-French conflict took on significant proportions, he would have grounds for arresting and deporting the French and their sympathizers - especially those who did not enjoy the status of American citizens at that time.
The Enemy Aliens Act was last applied during World War II - when tens of thousands of German and Italian immigrants - and especially Japanese immigrants - immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 - and the US declaration of war on Japan the following day - followed, on December 11, by the declaration of war on the United States by Japan's allies - Germany and Italy - were declared enemy aliens, arrested and taken to special concentration camps - without trial, of course - where many of them remained until the end of the war.
It is assumed that around 120.000 Japanese passed through the aforementioned camps - many of them were not helped by the fact that they were American citizens - because the imperative was to "cleanse" the West Coast of the USA of Americans of Japanese descent - which was done - and in record time - by the beginning of the autumn of 1942 - which also included the confiscation of these people's property.
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Nadib Bukele (Nayib Bukele) was elected the 46th President of El Salvador on June 1, 2019 - mainly because his entire campaign was based on the promise that, once he came to power, he would launch a very decisive crackdown on pervasive corruption - and especially on the gangs that were ravaging the country at that time - which primarily referred to the two most notorious gangs - the aforementioned Mara Salvatruca gang (MS - 13) and its rival Mara Barrio 18 gang (Mara Barrio 18 - or simply 18 - this gang has since split into two rival factions: Revolucionarios and Sureños).
Both gangs were formed in the USA - in Los Angeles - and established themselves in El Salvador in the early 1979s - after the end of the civil war (1992 - XNUMX) - and at this moment both operate in the USA, Canada, Mexico and Central America - in other words internationally.
After all attempts by previous presidents and governments of El Salvador, since the end of the war, to suppress gang activity with a so-called "firm hand" have failed miserably - hard hand - In March 2022, President Bukele enters the scene.
The immediate reason for the suspension of negotiations that Bukele was conducting with representatives of the MS-13 gang and with representatives of both factions of the 18 gang - and immediately afterwards for the declaration of a state of emergency throughout the entire country - was the so-called bloody weekend - bloody weekend - when 25 people were killed in just three days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday - from March 27 to 2022, 87) - on Saturday, March 26 alone, 62 people were killed - which was the bloodiest day in the history of El Salvador, including the period of the civil war.
OK, looks like that's it for today - continued in the next issue.
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