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News & Current Events Apr 2, 2026 at 9:58 AM

Utah attorneys say 19-year-old was wrongly deported, beaten and tortured in El Salvador prison

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Utah attorneys say 19-year-old was wrongly deported, beaten and tortured in El Salvador prison • Utah News Dispatch
Utah News Dispatch
Utah attorneys say 19-year-old was wrongly deported, beaten and tortured in El Salvador prison • Utah News Dispatch
Utah attorneys say a Venezuelan man had permission to enter the U.S. but was sent to the CECOT prison in El Salvador.
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mamayss Apr 2, 2026 +158
This is beyond heartbreaking imagine being 19, wrongly deported, and then tortured. Our system shouldn’t be this careless with human lives.
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RickyNixon Apr 2, 2026 +79
But also, deeply fucked up that this headline implies any teenager ever could be RIGHTLY deported, beaten, and tortured.
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IslayPeatNeat Apr 2, 2026 +7
I think the 'wrongly' in this headline is only applying to the word deported here. Theoretically you could be justifiably deported and still be wronged by being beaten and tortured. I get that it still doesn't sound good due to the ambiguity, but I don't think it's what the writer would've been trying to imply.
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RickyNixon Apr 2, 2026 +9
It is illegal to deport people to a place they will be tortured. So unless this was a totally unpredictable random act of violence, there was no legal, correct way deportation could have happened
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IslayPeatNeat Apr 2, 2026 +3
I see what you're saying better now, that there cannot be a rightful deportation if there is beating and torture in any way tied to it. I don't think the headline is working from that perspective, but you're right. Unless it was random, then wrongly can't really function here logically. Makes sense, and the broader point about what news reporting implies in how it phrase things that can normalize horrors is salient.
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HyperNova1000 Apr 2, 2026 -14
There is no age barrier to being deported, unless you are in favour of family separation of course. Also he is a legal adult...
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RickyNixon Apr 2, 2026 +10
It is illegal in the US to deport someone into a situation where they will be tortured. But also, no one should be deported or stopped from migrating freely, as all humans were free to do for all of human history until the last century or two.
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HyperNova1000 Apr 2, 2026 -4
Only if it is known they will be tortured, hence why that person was deported to el salvador and not venezuela where opposing gangs might do something like that. And he was given to the authorities in el salvador, if they mistreat him he should sue them (and hopefully win if it happened to be true). >But also, no one should be deported or stopped from migrating freely I would love to see you make that excuse if someone "migrates" into your house. Borders have existed for literally millennia and if someone entered a country that didn't want them, they would've killed or exiled that person.
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RickyNixon Apr 2, 2026 +4
Giving him to authorities in El Salvador knowing he will be imprisoned in one of their torture camps without anything resembling due process is illegal for the same reason as if he was deported to Venezuela. The legal right to asylum includes asylum from state violence. And saying he should sue them reveals you are completely out of touch with reality
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jefe417 Apr 2, 2026 +5
But clearly there is a barrier between you and your humanity. No one should ever be deported, period. The fact so many accept and advocate for this practice is foolish, self-interested, and purely xenophobic. Why do we treat unspeakable crimes differently based on where the perpetrator was born? Why do American citizens who commit horrible crimes get to stay here while people from other countries must leave? Why aren’t Americans of European descent deported back to Europe when they commit crimes the way Latino people are? All of it is fictitious, created to maintain the white man’s position of power in this country.
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ifuaguyugetsauced Apr 2, 2026 -4
You typed out a whole lot of stupid there. 
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RickyNixon Apr 2, 2026 +3
We are facing rapid, catastrophic climate change. And in the last 100ish years we randomly decided to BAN humanity’s only effective historical response to climate change - Migration. You think borders and immigration laws like we have now are obviously necessary, but they are brand new and robbed humanity of a critical freedom
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ifuaguyugetsauced Apr 2, 2026 -3
Laws and laws. Just because you feel a way doesn’t excuse people to break the law. It’s pretty simple and easy thing to understand and follow. If everyone can just wake up one day and migrate to where ever they want without no checks or balances our economics will collapse. 
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RickyNixon Apr 2, 2026 +2
Its a democracy and as a voter my opinion on what the laws are does matter But if “laws are laws” it is worth reiterating that deporting someone into a situation where they will be tortured is illegal.
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ifuaguyugetsauced Apr 2, 2026 -1
Yes and in a democracy the majority voted for these laws in place. So this is what is it until another government comes in and removes or changes the laws in place. And yes you’re right no one should be tortured. 
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Motor_Educator_2706 Apr 2, 2026 +1
[The Cruelty Is the Point 2018]( https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/)
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Nezrite Apr 2, 2026 +42
What's your favorite boot flavor?
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AdvancedFizzics Apr 2, 2026 +29
What a pos you are huh
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Gameboywarrior Apr 2, 2026 +18
Just because his lawyers are making the argument doesn't mean they're wrong. He's whistle blowing about torture. It's you guys, constitution hating torture enthusiasts, that he needs to be worried about. Republicans are still the bloodthirsty, torture loving, warmongers they have always been.
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HyperNova1000 Apr 2, 2026 -11
>Just because his lawyers are making the argument doesn't mean they're wrong. Doesn't mean they are right either... I'm going by the assumption that courts are less biased than that mans own lawyer.
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Gameboywarrior Apr 2, 2026 +7
And if the courts side with the attorneys making that argument? Then what? Will you respect that, or will you demand more unconstitutional, arrests and tortures?
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HyperNova1000 Apr 2, 2026 +1
Well if according to the courts he entered america legally (meaning he has papers that prove it), then sure. If they find he wasn't a gang member then he is owed compensation from his imprisonment, but that's separate from the deportation. Will you respect the courts' decision if his lawyer is proven wrong?
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Gameboywarrior Apr 2, 2026 +3
Of course I would. I'm not a Republican. I want justice to be carried out in a fair and constitutional manner.
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NergNogShneeg Apr 2, 2026 +7
So, what crimes did they commit that justify being beaten and imprisoned?
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Alternative_Demand96 Apr 2, 2026 +7
It’s always the grown ass men obsessed with cartoons who say dumb shit like this
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Dr_G_E Apr 2, 2026 +53
These lawsuits brought by those illegally deported to El Salvador, plus the lawsuits brought by the families of the fishermen murdered by the US military on the high seas, the illegally fired FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors who worked on the criminal cases against the president and his partisans, plus the corrupt "settlements" of the bogus lawsuits brought by Mike Flynn, the family of Ashley Babbit, the pardoned seditious insurrectionists of January 6, and the president's own $10 billion suit against his own DOJ will end up costing US taxpayers quite a bit. The president and the rest of his administration will not be paying these judgements and settlements. The administration's corruption will cost taxpayers plenty. Sad.
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MommyLovesPot8toes Apr 2, 2026 +14
I look forward to the day all Trump family assets are seized to refund the taxpayers.
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jaded1121 Apr 2, 2026 +1
This is close to what i hope happens too. Any amount that the whole family has made from jan 2017 on- gets seized and returned to the government. Then use the money to refund jobs and provide useful programs to the communities in america. A giant refund is great initially. I want long term economic growth. That helps communities in general.
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Ramoncin Apr 2, 2026 +30
In which way does this make America great again?
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TemporarySun314 Apr 2, 2026 +14
Americans can enjoy seeing some latinos being treated badly and suffering. Apparently thats what americans see as "great" or they would not have elected the fascists twice...
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Ex-maven Apr 2, 2026 +3
For a certain segment of the population, seeing others suffer (animals as well) is a high to them
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expertninja Apr 2, 2026 +3
Feel safer already /s
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ThorvaldtheTank Apr 2, 2026 +20
Imagine you’re playing Xbox with friends one night and then the next you’re shoulder to shoulder with a prison gang in El Salvador.
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BlueTerra62 Apr 2, 2026 +9
So there’s a ‘rightly’ version of beaten and tortured?
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Illustrious-Fun8324 Apr 2, 2026 +7
Why the f*** are people being beaten and tortured?
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dichenry Apr 2, 2026 +2
This administration must stop the war and save the money it would cost in order to have the funds to fulfill all of the lawsuits that will be coming their way.
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