Judges, Attorneys Face Trump's Salvadoran Black Hole

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Source: Huff Post

Apr 11, 2025, 07:40 PM EDT | Updated 9 hours ago


Henrry Jose Albornoz Quintero was scheduled to attend an immigration court hearing in El Paso Thursday. He didn’t. The immigration judge presiding over his case was not happy. “He just disappeared? What happened?” The Trump administration lawyer either could not say — or would not. “All I can disclose at the moment is that he’s no longer in ICE custody,” the lawyer said, according to the notes of Albornoz Quintero’s attorney, who attended the hearing.

The attorney believes his client is languishing at Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Salvadoran mega-prison where the United States sent hundreds of migrants last month. The Trump administration has sent some people to the prison under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used wartime power; Trump claims alleged Tren de Aragua gang members are the equivalent to an invading army. Others were sent to CECOT after receiving standard deportation orders from immigration judges.

Albornoz Quintero’s attorney John Dutton believes the government has removed him to CECOT as an “alien enemy” on the basis of his tattoos alone, a troubling trend that other attorneys and family members of detainees have flagged as well. The Trump administration has not provided any updates on Albornoz Quintero’s status, Dutton told HuffPost. But Albornoz Quintero’s name is among those on a government list of Venezuelan detainees sent to El Salvador that was published by CBS News.

“He doesn’t even know that his child’s been born,” Dutton said of Albornoz Quintero, whose wife gave birth a few days ago in the U.S. “His wife is doing all this on her own in a foreign country, doesn’t speak the language, doesn’t have any family here. She’s struggling.” On Thursday, the judge in Albornoz Quintero’s case stressed that he didn’t blame the government attorney personally for the lack of information about Albornoz Quintero’s whereabouts. But he called the situation “ridiculous,” according to Dutton’s notes and said, “This is really irritating me.” The government attorney said he could “elevate” the court’s request for more information.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-el-salvador-lawyers-judges-ice-custody_n_67f980e4e4b05c9df5d3a9ad

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1. put the fucking lawyer in jail for contempt

and leave him there until the government produces in court Quintero.

Demand the government send a new lawyer to replace the one in jail.

Jail the next one... until they comply

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2. Now I'm wondering how many of these people that Trump has disappeared have been killed already

[et tu]

4. a very somber insight

how long can we stand without due process???

[Walleye]

5. Every one of those people that was deported is either loved by somebody or missed by somebody. Somebody's husband

Or brother or son, Trump doesn’t think of them as people. We need families to descend upon the White House. Make trump talk to these people. What is the point of the storm trooper videos. They think they’re going to deter immigration that way? I’m hard to believe masked agents, snatching people off the street never to be seen again here in the United States of America. Where we have more prison space than any place else in the world.

[et tu]

6. keeps me in tears nt

[Walleye]

7. Me too

There is no goddamn excuse for this shit

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3. "alien enemy" on the basis of his tattoos alone

I wonder how many tattoo artists voted for Dump? Just wondering.

[Walleye]

8. Sadistic assholes, they could just as easily put them in an American prison, which really isn't much fun

But no, I guess our prisons aren’t cruel enough for these sadistic assholes