On Friday morning, I spent the day at a detention center in Pearsall, Texas to visit a group of men that the government is attempting to disappear.
The men held there have lived in the United States for years, in some cases since early childhood. They have past criminal convictions, and all of them have completed whatever sentence was imposed. Now, the U.S. government is attempting to send them to Libya — a country they are not from and have no connection to.
This is not deportation in any ordinary sense. It is disappearance.
Libya is not safe. The State Department warns against all travel there. The UN has condemned its detention facilities. Yet the government is actively trying to traffic people — men who are not Libyan — into this instability under the guise of immigration enforcement.
What does it mean to live in a country where the government can quietly send human beings into danger, without meaningful accountability or public scrutiny? Where due process can be erased by bureaucratic sleight of hand, and people are vanished into war zones based on paperwork and politics?
This story isn’t just about these men.
It’s about what happens when the rule of law gives way to raw executive power. When human beings become expendable. When citizenship or past mistakes are used to justify a total loss of rights.
Watch the short video. Listen to their story. And ask yourself: if the government can do this to them, who might be next?
More soon.
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