Jonathan Last: “Do you believe that anyone from America who goes into CECOT will ever come out?”
“I do not. This is not incarceration; it is liquidation.”
“Incarceration is a penal act. It is controlled by laws. There are well-understood mechanisms governing the length of terms, applications for parole, processes for release.
”“Liquidation is a political act. It is arbitrary, opaque, and unappealable. There are no controlling laws or processes. There is only power.”
“This is why Donald Trump cannot allow Kilmar Abrego Garcia to return to the United States. And it is why the democratic opposition must go to the mattresses to bring him home.”