Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads

www.nytimes.com Family of Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo: ‘My Brother Is Not a Criminal.’

Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.

Key facts here:

He entered the us legally, with an appointment to apply for asylum
He had a Michael Jordan tattoo
US officials decided he was a gang member based on this, even though officials "found that he did not appear to have ties with the Tren de Aragua," the gang he is accused of belonging to

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I'm sure pretty much all of them are innocent
I'm sure that by random chance a few of them may be gang members, but that's what happens if you pick up a random group of people. Most will be perfectly fine and nice people, a few will be bad.
That does leave the thousands others that are innocent and are now being put in terrorist jail cells. Well, cells designed for terrorists anyway, a good amount of the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay were innocent too yet spent decades there
What a fucking shit show is the US

Yeah, almost none of them are. That's not the point for conservatives. The point is that they're brown.

This is just one of the many reasons that the argument the right keeps repeating about all manner of privacy invasions and infringements of rights and due process that "the good ones have nothing to fear" is complete and utter bullshit.

You vote for fascism, you get fascism.
And we're barely a month in.
- We're 30+ years in. They're just going mask off now.
- Mind you, he isn't somebody who has ever voted in a US election, having never gotten further than an appointment with immigration officials at the border.
  
  I don't think @neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com referred to him, but to Americans generally.
  As in "look at the fascist fucking mess we have made for ourselves, and it has barely even started. We asked for this and now it's happening, it's all our falult and it's all fucked".

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