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8.4.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for Monday,
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August fourth, twenty twenty five. As a reminder, RADIOI is
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a reading service intended for people who are blind or
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have other disabilities that make it difficult to read printed material.
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You reader for to day is Cindy Fraser. To day's
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FrontPage headlines from the Washington Post are Democrats flee taxas
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to thwart House gop risky tactic is an effort to
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block redistricting plan to add five Republican seats. Next Welcome
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to Hell Inside the megaprison where the U S deported migrants.
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Interviews with sixteen former detainees of the Assavodor's Terrorism Confinement
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Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions at
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the notorious prison. Next. White House defends firing economic experts,
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condemned b LS move Trump Advisor offers no proof of
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quote rigged jobs data. Next, child sex abuse allegations shake
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Alabama community. Some in Bibb County are finding their faith
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tested by the horrific charges and the final headline from
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today's front page. People turn to AI tools to memorialize
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the dead. What happens when the new trend in death
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care gets stuff wrong Now for a first item entitled
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Democrats flee Texas to thwart House GOP risky tactic is
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an effort to block redistricting plan to add five Republican
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seats by Patrick Marley from Carol Stream, Illinois. Democrats in
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the Texas Legislature fled the state Sunday to block a
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redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump aimed at preserving
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the GOP's slim House majority, escalating tensions as a broader
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fight over congressional district lines unfolds throughout the country ahead
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of the twenty twenty six midterms. Texas Democrats have twice
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deployed the same tactic to combat legislation in the twenty
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two years since Republicans have controlled all of state government,
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but those efforts ultimately failed. This time, Democrats planned to
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stay away for two weeks to run out the clock
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on a special legislative session called by Governor Greg Abbott,
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a Republican, to draw a map that would give Republicans
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five more House seats. The Texas House can conduct business
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only when two thirds of its one hundred fifty members
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are present. A successful boycott would require participation from at
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least fifty one of the chambers, sixty two Democrats a
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total of fifty seven joined in, said State Representative John Rosenthal,
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a Democrat. Members traveled to Boston and Yorke, he said,
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with the largest group landing in Chicago. All planned to
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remain gone until the conclude vision of the session that
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ends August nineteenth. Our goal right now is to kill
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this session, Rosenthal said. Abbott said Democrats were willfully abandoning
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their jobs, and he would go to court to remove
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and replace them if they do not show up on Monday.
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In addition, Democrats could each face five hundred dollars daily
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fines from the legislature and political blowback. As part of
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the special session, lawmakers are considering legislation to respond to
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last month's deadly floods, and blocking action on that issue
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is likely to be unpopular. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Republican,
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has threatened to rest legislators who break quorum, but he
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won't have jurisdiction over them if they stay out of
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state today. This corruption ends, state Representative Jean Wu, chairman
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of the Democratic caucus in his chamber, said at a
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news conference at a county Democratic Party office in a
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mall in suburban Chicago. He was backed by rows of
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other Texas Democrats and Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker, a Democrat.
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WU said he did not know what Texas Democrats would
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decide to do later if Abbott calls another special session
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after this one. We don't know what the next steps are,
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he said. The fight in Texas and a looming GOP
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led redistricting effort in Ohio have kicked off a national battle,
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with Democrats in California, Illinois, and New York threatening to
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retaliate by tilting their state's congressional districts further in favor
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of their party. The democrats embrace of an all or
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nothing gerrymandering strategy comes after many of them spent years
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backing plans to strip politics from the map drawing process
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to ensure voters have fair competitive districts. While states such
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as Arizona and Michigan have adopted nonpartisan systems for drawing maps,
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Texas and many other have not, and partisans there have
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free reign to give themselves as much power as possible.
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Texas Republicans unveiled a map last week, under pressure from
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Trump and Abbot that would shift five districts sharply to
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the right. A committee approved the map Saturday, and the
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Texas House was expected to take it up Tuesday. Republicans
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hold twenty five of the state's thirty eight congressional districts,
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and under the new map, they could take thirty next year.
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Trump won all thirty of the proposed districts by ten
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points or more last year. Before Texas lawmakers unveiled their map,
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Trump said he favored a very simple redrawing that would
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give Republicans more seats. We pick up five seats in Texas,
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but we have a couple other states where we'll pick
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up seats also, he told reporters. Last month, Texas state
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Representative Todd Hunter, Republican, the sponsor of the legislation to
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draw the new map, called the GOP proposal a good
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plan for Texas that would give his party more seats
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in Congress. The primary changes are focused on five districts
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for partisan purposes, he said in committee DNC chair Ken
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Martin applauded Texas Democrats response, saying their actions showed real leadership.
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Republicans thought they could just rig the maps and change
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the rules without the American people taking notice, he said
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in a statement they were dead wrong. All states must
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draw new district lines at the beginning of each decade
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to account for population shifts identified by the US Census.
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Where they place the lines can greatly favor one party
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over the other. Most states give legislators the power to
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draw the districts, but eight states use independent commissions in
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hopes of preventing partisan power grabs. After the twenty twenty
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two census, Texas, Republicans focused on keeping safe. The plan
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to redraw district lines in the middle of a decade
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is unusual, and Republicans are open about using their power
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to stave off potential losses during the mid term elections,
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which historically have gone against the sitting president's party. Republicans
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hold a two hundred nineteen to two hundred twelve majority
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in the House with four vacancies, and any cushion could
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protect their ability to deliver on Trump's agenda. His signature
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tax and immigration bill, for example, squeezed through the chamber
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last month two hundred eighteen to two hundred fourteen. Trump
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has signaled he will be heavily involved in the mid terms,
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hosting fund raising dinners at his resorts and weighing in
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on social media with plans to target lawmakers with whom
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he disagrees. MAGA, Inc. A super pack aligned with Trump,
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raised a hefty one hundred seventy five million dollars in
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the first half of the year, according to a filing
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last week with a federal election commission. California Governor Gavin Newsom, Democrat,
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a frequent target of Trump's iire and a potential candidate
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for president in twenty twenty eight, has said he is
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working on a plan to shift Republican districts in his
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state to the left if Texas adopts a new map.
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In a dig at the GOP, Newsom reposted a map
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Friday on x from another user that showed all fifty
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two of the state's congressional districts could be drawn to
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favorite Democrats, likely wiping out the reelection chances of the
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nine Republicans who represent the state. Enacting a new map
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in California is not as easy as it is in Texas,
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because a California constitution requires that a nonpartisan commission established districts.
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Newsom has said he wants to call a special election
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in November to get approval from voters to change the
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state's map for twenty twenty six, twenty twenty eight, and
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if Texas acts. Republicans and Democrats alike engaged in jerrymandering
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in some states. In the most recent round of redistricting, Illinois,
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the new temporary home for Texas Democrats, has a map
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that received an f from the Princeton Jerrymandering Project because
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it is so heavily skewed towards Democrats. Other Democrats have
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spent years calling for removing politics from map drawing. In
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recent weeks, those voices have died down as Democrats say
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they cannot disarm if Republicans in states like Texas are
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going to strengthen their numbers. Eric Holder, who served as
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President Barack Obama's attorney general, has championed nonpartisan redistricting for years,
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but said Sunday on ABC that Democrats might have to
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do things that perhaps in the past I would not
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have supported. In response to Texas Republicans, Democratic governors echoed
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that notion, saying they opposed partisan jerrymandry but needed to
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retaliate if Texas Republicans carry out their plans. I think
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we need to respond in kind, said Kansas Governor Laura Kelly,
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the chair of the Democratic Governor's Association. If Texas changes
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its map, Democrats need to do the same wherever they can,
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said Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas, the Democrat the Democratic nominee
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for vice president last year. It is a terrible spot
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we're in as a country, but not responding is going
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to make it even worse, he said. Wisconsin Governor Tony
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Evers a Democrat campaign on ending jerrymandring, but he said
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he backs having states led by Democrats draw maps that
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favor their party. If Texas acts, when you're up against
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the wall, you have to do whatever you can to
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stop it, he said, But changing maps in states led
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by Democrats is difficult. Kelly Walls and Evers appeared at
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an event with the governors of Kentucky and Rhode Island,
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and all five governors are in charge of states where
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there appeared to be few options for adding Democratic seats.
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Walt said Minnesota's courts would not allow gerrymandering in his state,
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and Republicans hold majorities in the legislatures of Kansas, Kentucky,
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and Wisconsin. Democrats control all of Rhode Island state government,
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but both of the state's two congressional districts already belonged
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to the Democrats. Our next item is entitled Welcome to Hell.
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Inside the Megaprison where the U S deported migrants. Interviews
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with sixteen former detainees of Elsavoroth's Terrorism Confinement Center offer
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the most complete view yet of conditions at a notorious
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prison by Samantha Schmidt, Helena Carpio, Maria Luisa Powell, Sylvia Foster,
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Frau tail Armus, and Aaron Steckelberg. One detainee was beaten unconscious.
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Others emerged from the dark isolation room, carvet and bruises,
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struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another returned to a
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cell in tears, telling fellow detainees he'd just been sexually assaulted.
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Let's hit him like a pinnata. Guard shouted amid the beatings.
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Detainees recalled the blows echoing against the metal walls. They
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call it la Isla the Island, the cell where Venezuelans
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deported from the United States by the Trump administration said
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they suffered some of the worst abuse of their one
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hundred twenty five days in Alsalvo's Terrorism Confinement Center, or
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Sea Coot. The matching first hand accounts across multiple interviews
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are for the most complete view yet of conditions inside
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the megaprism, where inmates are denied access to lawyers and
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almost all contact with the outside world, and where fourteen
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thousand Salvodorans remain incarcerated. Few detainees have ever left Seacott,
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and fewer have spoken publicly of their experience there. The
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Washington Post interviewed sixteen of the more than two hundred
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and fifty men who were deported by the United States
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to Seacot, held there for four months, and then released
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this month to Venezuela as part of an international prisoner swap.
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The Venezuelans rounded up in President Donald Trump's mass deportation
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campaign told the Post they were subjected to repeated beatings
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that left them bruised, bleeding, or injured. They said prison
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staff restricted medical care for detainees suffering from diabetes, high
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blood pressure, or kidney failure. The men slept on metal bunks,
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usually with no cushions, in group cells where overhead lights
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blazed twenty four hours a day. They were expected to
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bathe and relieve themselves using a water tank and toilets
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that offered no privacy from cellmates. They were rarely allowed
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out of their cells. Three Salvadoran government spokespersons provided with
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detailed accounts of the detainees' allegations, did not respond to
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requests for comment. Damien Murlow, a U s based lobbyist
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for Salvadoran President Nayubukele, described the detainees as criminals who
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belong in prison and said their claims are baseless. Additionally,
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footage made available on social media of their departure from
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El Salvare showed them in good spirits, Murlo said, happily
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heading back home to Venezuela. Trisha mac laughlin, a spokeswoman
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for the Department of Homeland Security, provided a statement that
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repeated administration claims that the detainees were members as the
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trende' arragua gang, though government officials have acknowledged in court
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that many of those said to secok had no criminal record.
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Robert L. Serna, an acting Field office director at US
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a court filing in
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March that the lack of a criminal record does not
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indicate they pose a limited threat, and that the limited
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information about each individual actually highlights the risks they pose.
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President Trump and DHS Secretary Christy L. Nome will not
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allow criminal gangs to terrorize American citizens. McLaughlin said, once again,
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the media is falling all over themselves to defend criminal
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illegal gang members. We hear far too much about gang
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members and criminals, false lob stories, and not enough about
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their victims. Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, said the
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Trump administration is grateful for its partnership with Bucela to
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help remove the worst of the worst illegal criminals, terrorists,
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and gang members from the United States. She deferred questions
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about specific allegations to Elsavore's government. If the detainees accounts
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are true, their treatment at SEACOT may have violated UN
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conventions against torture, to which El Salvador and the US
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are signatories, said Isabel Carlo to Robi, a senior staff
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attorney at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Organization who
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has spoken with some of the detainees. Whether the US,
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which pei Buquet's government six million dollars to hold the Venezuelans,
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could be implicated in human rights violations would depend on
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the evidence, Roby said, including how much US officials knew
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about the conditions torture, arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, and sexual assault,
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if proved to be systemic or generalized and known to
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the government, can all constitute crimes against humanity. An international
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panel is preparing a report on El Salvador and investigating
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whether any of those crimes were committed. At least one
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member of the panel thinks that criminal investigation is warranted
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based on the information I have reviewed, said Santiago Canton,
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Secretary General of the International Commission of Jurists. There are
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reasonable grounds for an investigation by the International Criminal Court.
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The Post has found that many of the detainees had
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entered the United States legally and were actively complying with
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US immigration rules. Many of the men had fled political
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oppression and extreme poverty under Venezuelan President Nicolas Mandura, a
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US adversary. Some had been granted permission to live and
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work in the United States. At least two arrived in
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the US as refugees seeking safety from persecution in Venezuela.
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A number suspected they had been detained and deported by
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the US based solely on their tattoos. Marco Jesus Basulto Salinas,
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thirty five had temporary protected status shielding him from deportation,
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and worked legally in kitchens and pizzerias to pay for
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his mother's breast cancer treatments back home. Andre Anandez, a
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thirty one year old make up artist, entered the US
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legally with a c b P one appointment where official
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and a preliminary screening determined he had shown credible fear
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of persecution as a gay man living and working in Venezuela.
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Ragia Molina, a food delivery driver and aspiring professional soccer player,
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had been vetted by U S Citizenship and Emigration Services
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and federal law enforcements, flown to the US and conditionally
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accepted into a State Department resettlement program for refugees. As
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the detained men were shuttled onto flights in Texas on
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March fifteenth, none were told where they were being taken.
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Were giving you a surprise. Shackled at their wrists, waists
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and ankles, the migrants were loaded onto three Global X
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charter planes, with many of them believing they were headed
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to Venezuela. At least they would be going home. Busulto
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thought they were prohibited from opening the window shades. We're
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giving you a surprise, he remembers one immigration official telling them.
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When they landed, Bosulto said he found the courage to
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peek out the window. He saw El Salvador's blue and
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white flag waving in the air. Detainees began to panic,
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he said. A female deportee who spoke English, read aloud
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from one of the documents she had been given. She
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translated for the rest of the passengers they would be
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detained for at least a year in El Salvador. Some
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migrants refused to get off the plane. A guard struck
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a female passenger, Busulto said, screams filled the plane. Eventually,
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Basulto and other detainees said they were kicked, shoved, beaten,
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and forced off. Two Salvadoran officers grabbed his arms throw
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them down. Officers yelled and as detainees were pummeled and
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dragged to buses. According to detainee Miguel Rojasmandoza, he recounted
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watching one man get slammed so hard against a bus
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that his face began gushing blood. Mollina, the refugee who
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had been vetted for resettlement in the US, begged officers
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for an explanation, Please I don't understand what I'm doing here.
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Molina said, I haven't committed any crime. Please let me
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talk to some one. He began to pray. Then a
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Salvadoran officer grabbed him by the neck. Run son of
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a b he commanded, according to Molina, and jammed a
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rifle into his ribs. Hernandez, the make up artist, watched
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as the women were turned around and put on a
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flight back to the United States. The Salvadorans, he said,
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re used to accept them. The buses, now filled with men,
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began rolling. Welcome to El Salvador, hooded officers shouted on
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the ride. Six detainees said welcome to hell at sea
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cott Busulto said. Guards shaved his head, stripped him of
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his clothes, and took his phone, seven hundred dollars in cash,
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and the gold pendant he wore for luck. Anandas cried
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out for his mother. Why are you shaving my head,
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he asked. I'm a make up stylist, I'm gay, I'm
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not a gang member. The men were pushed together in
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a warehouse, flanked by photographers and guards, and forced to kneel.
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They were addressed by the prison director. Here, the director said,
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the men would have no rights, no right to a lawyer,
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no access to the sun. They would not eat chicken
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or meat for the rest of their lives. The only
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way that you will leave, he said, According to multiple detainees,
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is inside a black bag, the most perverse form of humiliation. Seacott,
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opened by Bucella in twenty twenty three as part of
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his crackdown on Salvadoran gangs, was designed to terrify the
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most violent of criminals. His government hailed it as the
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largest prison in the Americas, initially announcing a capacity for
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twenty thousand detainees and later doubling it. The imposing fortress
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outside San Salvador sprawls across more than two hundred eighty acres,
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surrounded by an electrified perimeter fence and nineteen watch towers.
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The roof of each pavilion is made of diamond shaped
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mesh with sharp edges. The Venezuelans were placed in cells
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up to twenty men in each. The concrete walls showed
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sweat stains, drops of dried blood, and what appeared to
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be scratches from human nails. One detainee recalled each cell
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held eighty metal beds stacked closely together in tiers of four.
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According to detainees and images of Seacot previously shared by
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Bucell's government, use of the water tanks and toilets was
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controlled by the guards and restricted to certain times of day.
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With no windows or fans, The detainees lived and ate
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amid the stench of their own sewage. The detainees could
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gage the time only by the heat that made them
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sweat during the day and the cold that chilled their
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metal beds at night. They couldn't see the sun, they said,
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but sometimes could hear the rain. Sea Cot seemed like
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it was for animals, said d'etaeni Julio Fernando Sanchez thirty five.
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It was designed for people to go crazy or kill themselves,
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Basulto said. Detainees were occasionally allowed to leave their cells
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to play soccer for twenty minutes or attend a brief
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Bible reading, but time dragged. The men in one cell
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counted the days by scratching marks into a wall. Detainees
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with medical concerns were often housed in cell number eight,
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said Fernandez, who was held there after an injury to
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his shoulder during a beating. There were men suffering from diabetes,
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skin problems, and panic attacks. One day, a diabetic prisoner
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was given the wrong insulin and began convulsing after it
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was injected. Fernandez recalled guards took nearly half an hour
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to get him help. The doctor would watch us get
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beaten and then ask us how are you feeling, with
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a smile. Busuoto said it was the most perverse form
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of humiliation. When Tita Martinez, twenty six, was in emigration
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detention in the US, he said a doctor told him
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he had kidney failure and would need a transplant. After
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repeated beatings in secut Martinez said he could no longer
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get out of bed. He would wet himself, and he
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relied on his cell mates to feed him. Tito was dying,
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his friends told the prison staff. When he was finally treated,
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Martinez said the doctor told him that his functioning kidney
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was operating at only twenty percent and that he would
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soon need dialysis to survive. Some detainees attempted suicide by
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tying sheets round their necks or using rusted pipes to
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cut their veins. Disobeying rules proved costly. When Ananda's head
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ached from the heat, he tried to cool down by bathing,
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he forgot to tell his friends to watch for guards
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get up piece of an officer told him. He said
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he was taken to La is Isla, where a tiny
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hole in the ceiling provided only a needle of light
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and almost no air. Four men entered and began touching
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him with their clubs and putting them between his legs.
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One forced Anandas to perform oral sex on him, he said.
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Basulto said, Ananda's returned to the cell in tears and
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told him what had happened. He and other detainees offered
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to speak up to the prison's staff, but he urged
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them not to. He feared it would provoke officers to
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attack us even more. The locks will break. After weeks
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of daily beatings, detainees said they launched a hunger strike.
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They went four days without food or water. People started fainting,
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falling to the floor, said detainee Murvin Jamarte twenty nine.
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The guards laughed when the hunger strike failed to draw attention,
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Some used shards from metal pipes to slice their skin
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and write messages on their sheets in blood. We are
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not terrorists, We are migrants. We wanted them to see.
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We were willing to die, Sidna yeriver Irian leon Ringo,
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twenty seven. The men grew desperate about two months after
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arriving at Seacott. Detainees tore rails off bunks and used
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them to break their locks. Dozens broke free and hurled
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soap and juice carts at guards. Some broke cement off
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the walls to throw at them. The guards fired back
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with rubber bullets, stormed from the cells and forced men
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to kneel with their hands behind their heads. They stood
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on our legs until we couldn't feel them anymore, leon
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Rango said. Then came their punishment. They were taken to
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La Isla. Molina said he sometimes heard screams echoing into
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a cell for hours at a time. The next day,
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he said, guards lined up the handcuffed detainees and took
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turns beating them. They broke a tooth of one man
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and dislocated an arm of another. Molina said that day
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was the worst of the beatings. Conditions improved only when
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outsiders visited the prison or when government officials wanted photographs,
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multiple detainees said. Shortly after a Red Cross visit, bibles
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were handed out to each cell for a visit by
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d h S's gnome. The detainees were given better food
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and even mattresses, though thin. When a group of US
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politicians towards the prison, Basulto said, detainees with visible injuries
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were moved to the remotest cells. After detainees began singing
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the Venezuelan national anthem, Busulto said, the prison director quickly
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cut the politician's visit short and hurried them away. The
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Red Cross, which visits Alvadoran prisons, regularly appeared at Sikat
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twice during the Venezuelan's time there. Delegates met with the
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men and collected brief spoken messages for their families. According
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to Martine Ferraras, Deputy Protection Coordinator for the International Committee
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of the Red Cross Mission in El Salvador, these were
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vetted by prison staff. Ferraras said, in their final days
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in Seacat, detainees said conditions seemed to improve. Molina was
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taken to the doctor for an evaluation. He was given
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a clean shave and the hair cut of his choice.
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The detainees were given Colgate toothpaste, a Gillette razor, and deodorant.
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A prison official took photos. The director told them to
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brush their teeth. At five a m. On July eighteenth,
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they were loaded onto buses, unsure where they were headed.
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Then a man in a uniform with a Venezuelan flag
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on one sleeve stepped on to Molina's bus. They were
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going home. On the plane, the Venezuelan sang a Christian
29:19
song with new words. If I had faith as small
29:23
as a mustard seed, I would tell my brothers we're leaving.
29:26
We're leaving, We're leaving, they sang, and the locks will break.
29:32
Men dressed in black waited for the detainees on a
29:34
plain set to flight to Venezuela. Detainees would later learn
29:39
that Moduro had sent officers of the Saban, his feared
29:43
secret police usually used to detain or disappear his political
29:47
opponents before being reunited with their families. One detainee said
29:53
they were told to record a video thanking the Venezuelan government.
29:57
He said he was warned that if he fl but
30:00
again and was deported back, he could be charged with treason.
30:04
The detainee spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear
30:08
of retribution from the Maduro government. Several of the men
30:12
who had once fled the authoritarian country, said they were
30:15
genuinely grateful to Maduro for negotiating their release when it
30:18
seemed no one else would. Still, some said they'd leave
30:23
for the US again, perhaps once Trump leaves office. Not Molina.
30:29
He doesn't think he could do it again, he said,
30:31
having lived through that. The American dream, he said, became
30:36
a nightmare. Anna Vanessa Arero, Sarah Blastly, Razan Nacals, and
30:43
Monica Math contributed to this report. Our next item is
30:48
entitled white House defends firing economic experts condemned the LS move.
30:54
Trump adviser offers no proof of quote rigged job's data
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by Meg Varkez. President Donald Trump's decision to fire the
31:03
official responsible for compiling the nation's job statistics to condemnation
31:08
Sunday from economic experts who served in Republican and Democratic administrations,
31:14
but the White House gave no sign of backing away.
31:17
The decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Rika
31:21
Macinterfer raised questions about the future independence of agency's tasks
31:26
with reporting critical economic data and threatened to further politicize
31:30
the fraud. Debate over whether federal budget cuts and job
31:34
eliminations have weakened the nation's ability to track major economic statistics.
31:40
The White House on Sunday dispatched Kevin Hassett, its top
31:44
economic advisor, to publicly defend the president's decision to fire mcintarfur,
31:50
but he did not provide evidence to support Trump's claims
31:53
that recent monthly job figures, which were revised downward last week,
31:57
were rigged to make him look bad. The president wants
32:01
his own people there so that when we see the numbers,
32:03
they're more transparent and more reliable, has it said on
32:07
nb CS Meet the Press. The latest jobs report, which
32:11
triggered Trump's anger, hit at an especially sensitive point for
32:15
the president. On Sunday evening, he called the report a
32:18
scam and a gaggle with reporters. The numbers were ridiculous
32:22
that she announced, he said, adding that he plans to
32:25
announce mckintarfur's replacement in three to four days. For months,
32:30
he had boasted multiple times a week that the United
32:33
States now has the hottest economy in the world. He
32:36
has repeatedly told audiences that he has received that assessment
32:40
from people he has talked to, attributing the comment at
32:44
different times to Middle Eastern monarchs. European leaders and American
32:48
business men. The Labor Department's latest monthly report showed the
32:52
labor market to be at best look warm, adding just
32:56
one hundred six thousand new jobs over the past three months,
33:00
far fewer than previously estimated and less than the amount
33:04
needed to keep unemployment from rising. The report, which included
33:08
steep downgrades of the estimates for jobs added in May
33:11
and June, suggested that Trump's tariffs have started to seriously
33:16
slow the economy. The revisions, while large, were not unheard of.
33:21
Final statistics on the number of jobs in the economy
33:24
often differ widely from the initial estimates. When Meet the Pressed,
33:28
host Kristen Welker pressed has it for proof Sunday to
33:32
support Trump's claim that those numbers were rigged? He deflected.
33:36
The revisions are the hard evidence, he said, adding if
33:40
I was running the BLS and I had a number
33:43
that was a huge, politically important revision, then I would
33:46
have a really long report explaining what happened. And we
33:49
didn't get that. Wrehassetti's impropriety. Trump's former BLS commissioner, William
33:55
Beach sees revisions that resulted from macintarfur trying to do
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a better job getting more information on CNN's stated the Union.
34:04
On Sunday, Beach rejected the argument that Mcintarper somehow manipulated
34:09
the data for political purposes, saying that by the time
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the commissioner sees in numbers, they're all prepared, they're locked
34:17
into the computer system. Mcintarper has not commented publicly on
34:21
her firing. Her dismissal comes amid broader concerns from policymakers
34:26
and economic analysts about increasingly shaky government economic data over
34:31
issues that in many cases predate her tenure leading the bureau.
34:36
Following response rates to government surveys, coupled with pandemic driven
34:40
seasonal quirks and long standing budget strains have made it
34:44
harder to collect and analyze reliable data, officials have said.
34:48
Agencies responsible for the data have also shed staff through
34:52
early retirements, deferred resignations, and normal attrition. On Wednesday, Federal
34:58
Reserve Board chaired round H. Powell noted the importance of
35:02
reliable statistics about the economy, saying at a news conference
35:06
that good data helps the government, but it also helps
35:09
a private sector. It's very hard to accurately capture in
35:14
real time the output of a twenty plus trillion dollar economy,
35:18
and the United States has been a leader in that
35:21
for one hundred years, and we really need to continue
35:24
that in my view, Powell said. Beach said that he
35:28
will still trust the job's numbers moving forward, but that
35:32
the attack by Trump undermines the public's trust the bureau.
35:37
I don't think there's any grounds at all for this firing,
35:40
he continued, and it really hurts the statistical system. This
35:44
is damaging. Paul suggests the public has more trust in
35:48
the accuracy of federal statistics, such as the unemployment rate,
35:52
than in the federal government overall. A national poll of
35:56
about one thousand adults conducted by survey research firm as
35:59
an r S in June found that roughly seventy percent
36:03
had at least some confidence in federal statistics, compared with
36:07
fifty one percent who said the same about the federal
36:10
government overall. Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers called Tromp's
36:16
claim that the BLS numbers were manipulated for political purposes
36:20
a preposterous charge, telling ABC's This Week on Sunday that
36:25
Macintarverth's firing was way beyond anything that Richard Nixon ever did.
36:31
These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds
36:35
of people, following detailed procedures that are in manuals. There's
36:39
no conceivable way that the head of the BLS could
36:43
have manipulated this number, said Somers, who led the Treasury
36:46
Department under President Bill Clinton. Hassett also raised concerned Sunday
36:51
about data quality, questioning whether the system has recovered from
36:55
the chaos of economic data collection during the COVID pandemic.
37:00
He argued that large revisions during the pandemic were happening
37:03
all the time all over the place, which was understandable
37:07
given fluctuations in the job market, But after the pandemic,
37:11
the large revisions have continued. He said. Right now we've
37:15
got BLS numbers that aren't really a lot better than
37:17
they were during COVID, and we need to understand why.
37:21
I think the president's right to call for a new
37:23
leadership has told Fox New Sunday, US trade representative Jamison
37:28
Greer said on CBS's Face and Nation that the president's
37:33
concerns with the BLS data date back to everything we
37:36
saw last year, appearing to reference downward revisions since the
37:40
twenty twenty four jobs data that Trump complained about. There
37:44
are always revisions, but sometimes you see these revisions going
37:48
really extreme ways. Rear continued. The president is a president.
37:52
He can choose who works in the executive branch. The
37:56
Trump administration's push to overhaul major benchmarks calls flawed, predates
38:01
Friday's jobs report. In March, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik called
38:07
for a change in the way economic growth is measured,
38:10
though that idea has yet to move forward. Over the
38:13
past decade. As a result of budget constraints, the BLS
38:17
has scaled back key activities such as in person visits,
38:21
follow ups, field training, and travel steps that are essential
38:26
for data quality. It has said it is surveying fewer
38:29
outlets for the Consumer Price Index, the most widely used
38:33
benchmark for inflation, because of staffing shortages in certain cities,
38:38
and that it is discontinuing the calculation and publishing of
38:42
wholesale pricing data on hundreds of products in the Producer
38:46
Price Index. Andrew Ackerman, Kasha Patel, and Joanna Slater contributed
38:52
to this report. Next, an item entitled child sex abuse
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allegations shake Alabama community. Some in Bibb County are finding
39:03
their fates tested by the horrific charges by Holly Bailey
39:07
from Centreville, Alabama. Inside a small Presbyterian church off the
39:12
Courthouse Square, a few dozen people packed the pews on
39:16
a hot summer evening, their faces a mix of sweat
39:20
and tears. There were Baptists and Methodists, and some who
39:24
claimed no denomination at all. Heads bowed and eyes closed
39:29
in a rare show of interfaith unity amid criminal allegations
39:33
considered so evil that some openly wondered if Satan himself
39:38
had taken up residence here. Days earlier, just across the street,
39:43
Bibb County Sheriff Jody Wade said his office had undercovered
39:48
an alleged child sex trafficking ring operating from a concrete
39:52
bunker behind a home on the dusty outskirts of Brent,
39:56
an adjacent town of about three thousand people located in
40:00
hour south of Birmingham. At least ten children between the
40:03
ages of three and fifteen were allegedly victimized over a
40:08
period spanning at least three years. The children had been
40:12
taken to the bunker, a structure on the edge of
40:14
a wooded area that had been originally built as an
40:17
underground storm shelter in a region known for destructive tornadoes,
40:22
but that refuge of safety was transformed into a den
40:26
of whares. According to Wade, the children were allegedly drugged
40:30
and abused in an operation that included sex, trafficking, torture,
40:35
and acts so cruel that Wade said they led him
40:39
to question humanity. Seven people were arrested and charged with
40:43
a laundry list of crimes, including numerous charges of rape,
40:47
sexual abuse, trafficking, and kidnapping. The defendants include the parents
40:53
of at least four victims. Wade has repeatedly warned that
40:58
the revelations are probably only scratching the surface, with additional
41:02
victims and more arrests expected. I know God's forgiveness is boundless,
41:08
but if there was a limit to it, I think
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we reached it, he said, describing the situation as the
41:15
worst case of child abuse he has seen in his career.
41:20
The announcement stunned the communities of Brent and Centerville. The
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sister cities are on the rural county back roads of
41:27
central Alabama, a region where churches are almost as prolific
41:31
as a kutzu vine. Swallowing much of the summer landscape.
41:35
For some, the allegations of something so sinister happening in
41:39
their own back yard has been a test of their
41:42
deep faith at acknowledgment of how small towns and rural
41:46
communities have changed, and how systems intended to protect vulnerable
41:51
children often fail to do so. Like everybody, my emotions
41:57
are all over the place, said Bobby Terry, a local minister,
42:01
has been attending the prayer vigils. I just don't want
42:04
the world to think that this is our community. I've
42:08
been living here my entire life, and there's never been
42:11
anything of this magnitude. I mean, we have problems, you know,
42:15
but there's never been anything like this. To some local residents,
42:20
sex abuse scandals are the province of rich elites, like
42:24
the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is pictured on a
42:27
billboard in nearby Birmingham with President Donald Trump along with
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a question what's the big secret? Fellas. It's a reference
42:36
to accusations that Trump's Justice Department is covering up details
42:40
from Epstein's alleged sex crimes that could also ensnare the
42:44
current president, his predecessor, Bill Clinton, or other famous people
42:48
who spend time with Epstein decades ago. Trump has denied
42:53
any knowledge of Epstein's crimes and had claimed that the
42:56
two had a falling out years before the disgraced billionaire's
42:59
conviction on sex crimes. Now, at prayer meetings and other gatherings,
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Bibb County residents have grappled with the realization that even
43:09
more horrific crimes than those Epstein was accused of may
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have been happening in their own town. For some, it
43:17
has shattered a sense that their small community was safer
43:20
than bigger cities. But experts say rural areas are among
43:25
the places where people are the most vulnerable to traffic
43:28
in and abuse, including in Alabama, where local prosecutors say
43:33
such cases have been on the rise. We can't assume
43:37
that just because we're in small towns that everything operates
43:41
just like it did in the days of the Andy
43:43
Griffith Show. Robert Turner Junior, the district attorney for Alabama's
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fourth Judicial Circuit, which includes Bibb County, told w a
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KA t V. A lot of these small towns may
43:54
appear to be Mayberry, but they are far from it.
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Lynn Ellinghouse, a brent native, physically shivered thinking about images
44:04
she had seen of the bunker on local television. It
44:07
looked like something out of a horror movie, she said
44:10
as she attended a community vigil. The case was all
44:14
anyone she knew was talking about, from the kids to
44:17
the suspects, and then the biggest mystery of all, how
44:22
did no one know? She wondered all that time, and
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no one saw any sign and isolated shelter. Wade said
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his office was tipped off about the possible abuse earlier
44:35
this year by a caseworker with the Alabama Department of
44:38
Human Resources DHR, the agency that oversees child welfare, and
44:44
agency spokesperson declined to comment on any aspect of the case,
44:48
citing confidentiality laws, and Wade did not respond to requests
44:52
for comment, but it led investigators to a property along
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Aaron Drive, five miles from the Centreville town square. The
45:01
home that investigators visited sits at the end of a
45:04
long gravel driveway on the edge of thick woods off
45:07
a dirt road riddled with potholes. It is surrounded by overgrown,
45:12
grassy lots dotted with wrecked cars and dilapidated mobile homes
45:17
Across from the driveway. A faded yellow sign almost entirely
45:21
concealed by thick green vines reads watch for Children. The
45:26
property is linked to a relative of William Chase McElroy,
45:29
twenty one, who is initially arrested February fifth and charged
45:34
with two counts of sexual abuse for inappropriately touching two
45:38
young children. According to court records, andres trejou Velasquez, the
45:44
father of the children, is listed as a witness on
45:47
the complaint. A judge said McElroy could be released from
45:51
Bibb County Jail on a sixty thousand dollars bond, but
45:54
it is unclear if he left custody. A week later,
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he was arrested again and charged with sexually abusing two
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other children under the age of seven. This time a
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judge denied bond. Investigators took notice of structure behind the
46:10
house that Waite said initially looked like a car port
46:13
but had a rear door leading to an underground storm shelter.
46:17
There they found a dirty mattress, a fan, and other furniture.
46:22
A little over two months later, Dalton Terrell, twenty one,
46:26
high school classman of Knockleroy, who lived near the bunker,
46:30
was arrested and charged with multiple counts of rape, sodomy,
46:34
and human trafficking. According to an April twenty ninth complaint,
46:39
Terrell admitted to investigators that he had abused six children
46:44
and that he gave money to two adults to use
46:47
the children. Waite has said Terrell's co operation blew open
46:51
the investigation. The next day, trejel Velasquez twenty nine, was
46:57
arrested and charged with six counts of human tracks trafficking.
47:01
Three of the victims were his own children, while a
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fourth was his partner's daughter, according to court records. On
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July fifteenth, a Bibb County grand jury indicted McElroy Terrell
47:14
and trejou Belasquez on additional charges including rape, trafficking, kidnapping,
47:21
and abuse. In late July, four others were arrested and
47:26
charged in connection to the alleged trafficking and abuse, including
47:30
Rebecca Brewer, Timothy Saint, John Junior, Ricky Terrell, and Sarah Trell.
47:35
Brewer twenty nine, is trejou Velasquez's partner and the mother
47:40
of four victims. She was charged with the trafficking and
47:44
kidnapping of eight children, including her own, and is also
47:47
facing multiple counts of sexual torture. Several of the defendants
47:52
are related, according to public records. Brewer is a cousin
47:56
of Dalton Terrell, and the niece is Sarah and Ritterrell
48:00
Ordolphin's parents. Wade has said the victims were children who
48:04
belonged to the defendants or related to other family members
48:08
or friends. According to records, Saint John twenty three, was
48:12
a high school classmate of several defendants and a neighbor
48:16
of Brewer and Trejoe of Alasquez. Core records made public
48:20
Friday show that a Bibb County grand jury on Thursday
48:24
issued fresh indictments against McElroy Terrell, Trejeovelasquez, and Saint John,
48:30
with updated charges including sexual abuse and aggravated child abuse.
48:35
The indictments alleged the men conspired together to abuse and
48:40
deliberately torture some of the victims. Additional charges against them
48:45
and the three others are expected in coming weeks. Stuart Olbea,
48:50
a court appointed attorney for trejo Ofvelasquez, said in an
48:54
email that his client denies any involvement in the conduct
48:58
described in the indictment looks forward to the opportunity to
49:01
demonstrate his innocence in court. Albea said he was deeply
49:07
concerned by how local law enforcement had made information about
49:11
the case public, even as it has not yet been
49:14
provided to him or his client. He denied that there
49:18
heal Velasquez was a gang member and said he is
49:21
a U. S citizen, two issues that law enforcement officials
49:24
told reporters they are investigating. This conduct appears calculated to
49:30
poison the jury pool and may make it impossible to
49:33
seat the fair and impartial jury in rural Bibb County,
49:37
Albeya said, adding it also risks further harm to the
49:41
alleged victims by placing sensitive allegations in the public eye prematurely.
49:47
Attorneys for the other six defendants did not immediately respond
49:50
to requests for comment. All seven are being held without
49:54
bond as the Bibb County Jail and have not yet
49:58
inter pleased. Gates said in a July twenty eighth radio
50:02
interview that some defendants are cooperating with the investigation. I
50:07
think the longer they have time to sit there and
50:09
maybe repent, will give the answers to all the questions
50:13
that we have to better serve these children. The sheriff
50:16
said that allegations have left many in the community questioning
50:21
what might have been missed. Wade said last week that
50:25
the victims attended school and participated in other routine functions,
50:30
a comment that has sparked scrutiny over whether teachers or
50:34
others noticed and reported anything. The superintendent of Bibb County
50:38
Schools did not respond to a request for comment. Months before,
50:44
Wade says their office was tipped off about possible abuse
50:47
by a DHR caseworker. Court records show the agency removed
50:51
four children from Brewer and treho of Alasquez's home and
50:55
place them in DHR custody. Though it is unclear when
50:59
the removal happened, records suggest it took place around the
51:03
time Brewer filed in August first, twenty twenty four, domestic
51:07
claim against Trijovelasquez. Records about that allegation are not public,
51:13
but a court dock notation describes the case as protection
51:18
from abuse. In October, an attorney for DHR file claims
51:23
against both Brewer and Trehovelasquez, seeking to garnish any income
51:28
or financial assistance to help pay for the children's care.
51:32
Brewer was unemployed, but that December, a judge approved the
51:37
state's efforts to garnish Trehovelasquez's income from a construction firm.
51:43
Brewer's complaint against Trejovelaskuis was ultimately dismissed because neither appeared
51:48
in court. By February, DHR filed petitions in Bibb County
51:54
to drop the financial claims, writing to the court that
51:57
the children were no longer in state custody and were
52:00
back with her parents. A Circuit court judge dismissed the
52:04
cases on March eighteenth, about a month before Thria Velasquez
52:08
was arrested. It's unclear when the children were placed back
52:12
into state custody. Speaking to reporters, Wade said that so
52:17
far he believes only those with direct knowledge of the
52:20
alleged trafficking operation were aware the children were being abused.
52:26
But Caroline Potter, a long time chold advocate who is
52:29
the chief executive of The Well House, an Alabama based
52:32
nonprofit that operates one of the largest residential truman programs
52:36
for trafficking survivors in the country, is skeptical of claims
52:40
there were no signs. She said people in rural communities
52:44
beset by poverty are particularly vulnerable to being trafficked by
52:48
relatives or others with family connections, thus especially to in
52:52
areas that are less vigorously patrolled by law enforcement. She said.
52:57
Forty seven percent of bread lives below Harvardy level. Identifying
53:02
trauma in children can also be difficult. Potter said teachers
53:07
often play a key role in reporting possible abuse, given
53:10
the close bonds a form of their students. She added.
53:14
Last week, a former bib Pa County teacher told Birmingham's
53:18
WNBA that she repeatedly reported concerns about one of her
53:22
students during the twenty twenty three through twenty twenty four
53:25
academic year to school administrators. The student, believed to be
53:29
one of the victims, showed signs of neglect, including poor hygiene,
53:34
had chronic absences, and exhibited developmental issues, the former teacher
53:39
told the TV station, adding that her complaints went nowhere. Terry,
53:44
the minister, who was also a former Bibb County High
53:47
school teacher and coach until he retired last year, said
53:51
that teachers undergo mandatory reporting training with the HR representatives,
53:56
but he also recalled instances in which teachers reported by
54:00
abuse and said sometimes nothing happens. He feared teachers would
54:05
face criticism for not spotting the alleged abuse in these cases,
54:09
which he said would be unfair. Teachers have too much
54:13
to do. They're already being mom and dad and aunt
54:17
and uncle, and they're being doctor, and they're being counselor,
54:20
and there being so many different things that they're already doing.
54:24
He said. These teachers, they love these kids like their
54:28
their own. Absolutely shattered. Residents gathered on the lawn of
54:34
the Bibb County Courthouse two days after Wade's news conference
54:38
to pray for the victims, law enforcement, the community, and
54:42
each other. Many were angry they saw the notes on
54:46
social media calling for things like vigilante justice for the suspects.
54:51
Why do we even need a trial? One person posted
54:54
on Facebook. Mike Oakley, the mayor of Centerville, had leaked
54:58
into action, organized vigils and other public events because he
55:02
wanted people here to talk and reflect. When this happens,
55:07
you're literally shot like a punch in the face, a
55:10
community punch in the face, he said. Deep down, Oakley
55:16
knew the small town experience was not the same for everybody.
55:20
Many in Bread and Centerville now commute into Birmingham and Tuscaloosa,
55:24
instead of working in town and getting to know their neighbors.
55:28
In the South, we are all about being front porch people,
55:31
knowing our neighbors, talking to them, he said. We need
55:34
to be that way again. But first they needed to pray.
55:39
They prayed outside the courthouse, where the defendants will appear
55:42
before a judge in coming weeks. Inside the church the
55:46
following evening, they sat in small groups praying for everybody involved,
55:51
some grudgedly includingly accused. Ellinghouse, who grew up in Brent,
55:57
kept thinking about another event in her small city that
56:00
made national news fifty two years ago. In May nineteen
56:05
seventy three, the town took a direct hit from one
56:08
of the most violent tornadoes to ever hit the state.
56:12
It destroyed ninety percent of the city, including her childhood home.
56:17
Many people here lost everything. A memorial along Main Street
56:22
marks the date, describing Brent as a city proven by tempest.
56:27
But Ellinghouse worried the allegations of child sex abuse and trafficking,
56:32
if proved, could end up being more damaging to the
56:35
city than the tornado. People are just absolutely shattered over this,
56:41
she said. No one thought anything like this could happen here.
56:47
And the last item from today's front page is entitled
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people turned to AI tools to memorialize the debt What
56:55
happens when the new trend in death care gets stuff wrong?
57:00
By Drew Harwell. Two days after Jeff Fargo's mother died,
57:04
he lay in bed, crying at home in Nevada and
57:07
opened his laptop to chat g p t. Her friends
57:11
had asked about an obituary, so for nearly an hour,
57:14
he typed about her life, that she had been a
57:17
single mom in a male dominated world, that she never
57:20
got the credit she was owed, that she was loved.
57:24
After a few seconds, the chatbot offered its condolences and
57:28
a short passage memorializing her as an avid golfer known
57:32
for her kindness and love of dogs. After it was
57:35
published in her community's newspaper, her friend said had captured
57:39
her beautifully. I just emptied my soul into the prompt,
57:44
said Fargo, fifty five. I was mentally not in a
57:47
place where I could give my mom what he deserved,
57:50
and this did it for me. Artificial intelligence tools are
57:55
not just reshaping how we work, learn and live. They're
57:59
also changing what happens after we die. As families and
58:03
funeral homes seek help in creating tributes and eulogies to
58:07
define a loved one's life, funeral directors are increasingly asking
58:11
the relatives of the deceased whether they would prefer for
58:14
AI to write the obituary rather than take on the
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task themselves. Josh McQueen, the vice president of marketing and
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product for the funeral home management software Passer, said its
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AI tool has written tens of thousands of obituaries nationwide
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in the last few years. Tech startups are also working
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to build obituary generators that are available to everyone in
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their time of Greek for a small fee. Due to
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time constraints, we will have to end this item at
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this time. This concludes the reading of the Washington Post
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