Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a 32-year-old Venezuelan immigrant legally residing in the United States, has apparently been disappeared to El Salvador’s notorious Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) after mistakenly turning onto the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan.

The bridge, one of North America’s busiest international crossings, links Detroit with Windsor, Ontario. Due to the complexity of nearby highways, even local residents occasionally take the wrong ramp. For Prada, this innocent mistake led to arrest, imprisonment, and deportation—culminating in his disappearance into a foreign prison.

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    20 hours ago

    This is human trafficking. This man was bought, sold and transported against his will, and without due process.

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      16 hours ago

      When we try trump and sentence him, guess where he’s going? An el Salvador prison.

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          14 hours ago

          I do. He will lose power. It WILL happen. It takes awhile to organize millions of people, but they are being organized, the protests have had an effect, Legal battle lines are being drawn with higher universities, etc… the slow roll of mobilization is happening and is gaining momentum. millions demonstrated last weekend, though the media barely talks about it. There will be encampments and other big protests set up. It is in the planning. from what I hear just don’t want it top end like occupy wall street. it has to be more organized, more united.

          The magic word is time. It sucks. its slow, and its the master. But the time is also coming when the protests and organized institutions all reach a critical mass that the illegal administration cannot shout through. That’s when he will go to trial.

          In two weeks , the container ships coming into the United states drops from over 20, to 12. That’s a huge hit to the supply lines and economy of the U.S. A hit to the food supplies , and the cash flow. those are the two that matter. think about what his support will be then.

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            11 hours ago

            This is going to be my most downvoted comment, but please stop with the exaggeration designed to make people irrational. This administration is not “illegal”, it isn’t like a fucking dictator that you need to conquer. All you need to do is win the next election, which from what I’ve seen from the burgerreich will be very easy. This revolutionary mindset has thoroughly infected this social network.

            You aren’t going to be “black bagged”, there is no gestapo killing people for corporations, you aren’t Katniss Everdeen fighting against the Capitol. You are a Lemmy user who thinks that the entire world is against you.

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              7 hours ago

              Youngster. You are in for a very, very rude awakening.

              No one is making any of those claims. You don’t know the staggering amount. If things you don’t know. And that is sad.

              I wish you a good day