This morning at 10am ET we will fire up the chat room for a look at this now infamous segment:
Paramount (CBS) tried to kill this report, but it got out anyway and here it is.
The spiked 60 Minutes segment, “Inside CECOT,” details the deportation of 252 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador’s “Terrorism Confinement Center.” The investigation reveals the administration used the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to bypass immigration courts, classifying civilians—including a soccer player and a makeup artist—as “gang terrorists” without due process.
Key findings show that 75% of the deportees had no criminal record in the U.S. or abroad. To facilitate this, the U.S. reportedly paid the Salvadoran government $6 million—roughly $20,000 per prisoner—using State Department funds intended for narcotics control.
The report features footage of the “intake” process, where men were stripped of their identities, shaved, and forced into a facility designed for 40,000 gang members. Ultimately, the segment frames the operation as a secret, taxpayer-funded offshore detention system designed to circumvent U.S. judicial oversight.
For the full backstory see our brief (including update on a new court ruling yesterday)→
📖El Salvador: The CECOT Deportations
