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

  1. He entered the us legally, with an appointment to apply for asylum
  2. He had a Michael Jordan tattoo
  3. 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
  • Phoenixz
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    1 day ago

    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