Matt Gaetz visited El Salvador's mega-prison and saw people drained of hope. He then pitched it to Stephen Miller

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Friday 25 April 2025 16:47 BST


Matt Gaetz visited the El Salvador mega-prison last summer and pitched the idea of sending migrants there to Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, according to a report. Trump’s failed nominee to lead the Justice Department was invited on a diplomatic visit by El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele in July 2024, TIME reports.

Bukele made Gaetz an offer during a dinner that he would be willing to imprison migrants that Trump wanted removed from the U.S. inside El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, according to the outlet. The next day, Gaetz was given a tour of the facility, which human rights groups have described as a “tropical gulag” rife with abuses.

“The conditions had zapped the inhabitants of any will to fight,” Gaetz told TIME. “It’s tough to see the state of the human condition drained of hope.” Gaetz then pitched the idea of sending migrants to the mega-prison to immigration hardliner Miller, a source told the outlet, who then presented it to Trump.

“One of the reasons I like it is because it would be much less expensive than our prison system, and I think it would actually be a greater deterrent,” Trump said in an interview with TIME.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/matt-gaetz-el-salvador-prison-trump-deportation-b2739596.html

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These people are a bunch of craven sickos.

[walkingman]

1. Humans like this are flawed and yet many people admire them. Yuk!

[ananda]

6. Much worse than flawed... and definitely not human any more.

They have completely lost their humanity.

[MadameButterfly]

21. Tom Riddle minus a couple of hoarcruxes

[FakeNoose]

2. Why in the world would Gaetz ever go there?

... unless Chump's campaign team asked him to.

[flvegan]

9. Hoping to "tour" the female children/young adult housing. n/t

[rubbersole]

10. He thought MS-13 meant Ms.13...

...with fake IDs unnecessary.

[Brother Buzz]

13. DUzy worthy!

[SWBTATTReg]

3. I guess this is where we need to send Gaetz, for alleged raping someone. And what's ever happened to this ? How is it

that if someone is involved w/ politics, they literally get away w/ crap that is buried forever?

[Qutzupalotl]

4. It's "tough to see," so let's do it some more!

Crazytown

[LymphocyteLover]

5. Gaetz, Miller, Bukele, Trump-- all simply evil

[MadameButterfly]

22. Himmler, Goebbels, Heydrich, Eichmann

and Hitler of course

[badhair77]

7. These people are vile.

Is it wrong of me to want to see them suffer in interminable pain.

[ShazzieB]

17. It's a conundrum.

On the one hand, I believe in principle that it's wrong to wish ill on another person. Bit it's awfully hard not to wish ill on people who wish it on so many others and do their utmost to make it happen.

[Blue Owl]

8. If anyone deserves to be there, it's THESE motherfucking fucks

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Depraved NAZIs

Losers.

[Grins]

12. And Gaetz is a lawyer

[Evolve Dammit]

14. It's torture and illegal. Call it. MSM is soft peddling as usual. They are un-adjudicated and wrongfully "disappeared

[Mblaze]

15. It might be a deterrent for immigrants

But it's a boost for Republican evil in the world.

[MadameButterfly]

23. The problem is they can't find enough rapists and murderers

How do you deter honest green card holding legal immigrants who are fleeing terrible conditions elsewhere?
Most of them will come anyway. They might learn not to get tattoos. The people who will stop coming are the ones who aren't desperate: the tourists.

[dchill]

16. Drool, drool!

[Godot51]

18. Perhaps...

.. he should have been detained.

[SupportSanity]

19. A good prison in another coutry where the ruler is in your pocket gives them a great opportunity to express themselves.

How can they NOT find this absolutely irresistable?
This is who they are. NOTHING different than Nazis other than they speak english.

To be able to watch human suffering and truly enjoy it? Heaven.....

Let's order up some more......

[NoMoreRepugs]

20. Gaetz loose in El Salvador, I'm positive nothing salacious occurred - yeah, RIGHT.

[sakabatou]

24. They're channeling Fire Lord Ozai

"Yes, you're right. We need to destroy their hope."
-Fire Lord Ozai on how to demoralize the Earth Kingdom

[karin_sj]

25. They are pure evil

Every single one of them.

[vapor2]

26. SCHADENFREUDE PURE AND SIMPLE

[Miles Archer]

27. Miller based the current situation on the 50s "Operation Wetback."

The Kilmar Abrego Garcia situation should have been an expected outcome by anyone familiar with the Eisenhower-era program. Wrongful deportations of people living here legally were part of what happened. We know Miller doesn't care because he's the chief cheerleader for the real dog whistle under Trump's "Make America Great Again" fetish (TRUE MESSAGE: MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN).

[oasis]

28. Gaetz should have his obnoxious ass in prison.

I eagerly await the day it finally happens.

[3825-87867]

29. Bukele made Gaetz an offer...?

BEFORE trump won?
It would seem probably Gaetz already KNEW Trump would win and told Bukele...that the fix was in.

Just a thought.

[Godot51]

30. greaseball to greaseball, as it were.

Shit sticks together, too.