Daniel Garcia
dandata.bsky.social
Daniel Garcia
@dandata.bsky.social
Ex-undocumented, ex-DACA, prior research assistant, canvasser, organizer, activist. Now focus on telling the story through data.
Germany did the same thing during the Nazi regime, the most notorious concentrations camps where outside of Germany.

The conditions in CECOT are not too unlike the conditions on a concentration camp, I am reminded of the space per prisoner there compared to the Einsatgruppen (death) vans.
June 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
They are also asylum seekers who fled their home country and started a legal process that exists in the US to adjust. They are the majority in the concentration camp in El Salvador. Victims that we now victimize with a place designed to be their place of death. Deprived of even basic human needs.
June 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
US Citizens have also been deported, without due process a person cannot prove their status or prevent their deportation to inhumane conditions. This does not affect only immigrants, it affects anyone that they call an immigrant whether they are an immigrant or not.
June 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We are in a time that people are being deported to war zones, not their country, just a place to warehouse them, no due process, no proof of deportability.
June 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This sometimes involves to a country ICE assumes they are from. We have deported US Born citizens to Mexico because ICE did not believe they where born in the United States during Obama's term, that was the only way they could get out and organizer proof of US birth by being deported.
June 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Should add, in many cases people spend time in inhumane conditions in detention centers before deportation, some for-profit detention centers are visited 1-2 times per week by ICE, so even if someone wants to be deported to get out, they might not be able to. And where is a US citizen deported?
June 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is my concern as well. Exploitation is possible when fear exists, and they leverage that quite often. Almost non-existent wages, slavery conditions, even forcing people to use their wages to cover rent in abhorrent conditions, or keeping passports under threat of deportation.
June 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Honestly, $2300 sounds pretty low, my monthly grocery budget has already increased on pace to be much higher once I consider the increased cost over the remainder of the year.
May 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/i...

Reported in 2021, so these where between 2015-2020, mostly Trumps first term.
ICE May Have Deported as Many as 70 US Citizens In the Last Five Years
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) keeps making an inexcusable error: it has been deporting U.S. citizens by mistake.
immigrationimpact.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is specially the case as ICE seeks to disappear permanent residents and visa holders, how they might target naturalized citizens and us born citizens, it starts with one group without a voice. But they have been pushing the limits by targeting asylum seekers and permanent residents.
April 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
They weren’t raised here, but they believed in what the U.S. claimed to be. That’s why the silence cuts so deep. It’s not just complicity—it’s disowning those who once saw this country as hope. What does it mean when even that hope is met with indifference?
April 14, 2025 at 5:50 AM
This, as I learn more of people I bring up each of them, and how flawed it was to be sent there as innocent people. I write dozens of messages everywhere I can bringing attention to push back against the wave that believes trying to survive was a crime justifying the horrid conditions they face.
April 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Here are some of the conditions of CECOT. It was designed with the intention of people never leaving. No rehabilitation, no connection with the outside world, artificial lights on 24/7, overcrowding where each prisoner has 0.4-0.6 square meters per person, no sheets or blankets, no names.
April 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
When a sample picture of tattoos that identifies a tren de Aragua member happens to be a citizen in the UK that works for the train system (train translated to Tren in Spanish). The ignorance and abhorrent truth comes out, they have no evidence and innocent people where sent to set an example.
April 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Those conditions alone will cause immense physical and psychological harm. Innocent people that never committed a crime were sent there a month ago and this administration is trying to delay the return of even the person they agree they deported by mistake. All were deported by mistake.
April 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM