Podcaster Joe Rogan said it’s “horrific” that innocent people could be getting swept up in the Trump administration’s effort to deport gang members and send them to El Salvador’s notoriously dangerous mega-prison.
Rogan, in a podcast released Saturday, praised President Trump for lowering the number of illegal migrant crossings at the U.S. southern border, but he expressed concern that the Trump administration’s policy of deporting people it claims to be affiliated with gangs could be targeting non-criminals.
“The thing is, like, you got to get scared that people who are not criminals are getting, like, lassoed up and deported and sent to, like, El Salvador prisons,” the popular podcaster said.
Rogan pointed to recent reporting about several people not affiliated with gangs getting sent to the mega-prison because they had tattoos and were not given the chance to defend themselves before a judge. He mentioned specifically an example of the “gay barber.”
“It’s horrific. It’s horrific,” said Rogan, who landed an interview with Trump during last year’s presidential race seen as important in the Republican nominee’s efforts to win over young male voters.
Rogan agreed with his podcast guest, political commentator Konstantin Kisin, who said, “a human being, being plucked out of nowhere and ending up in a country he’s never been in, in a maximum-security prison with gang members, seems like a bad thing to happen.”…
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The Trump administration has deported another 17 men it claims are affiliated with gangs to a Salvadoran prison.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that the men were members of the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs and were brought to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, where a prior group of some 260 migrants were taken…..
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Court filings from the American Civil Liberties Union, which is challenging the use of the Alien Enemies Act, contend that many of the migrants were deported due to their tattoos. Many of the cited tattoos, it says, have no connection with the Tren de Aragua gang and include everything from roses to sports references….
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