Human rights groups raise alarm over fate of Salvadorans deported from U.S. : NPR
For the past four years, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has extended a 30-day suspension of rights, effectively creating a police state that keeps Salvadoran deportees from the U.S. trapped in the Central American country’s notorious prisons. Illustration by Jackie Lay/NPR hide caption toggle caption Illustration by Jackie Lay/NPR T remembers the fear she felt when she was deported to her home country of El Salvador from the U.S. late last year. “It was traumatizing, I was so scared,” she told NPR in Spanish. T, who is back in immigration detention in the U.S. now, asked to be identified only by her first initial out of fear for her safety from Salvadoran officials. T fled her country nearly five years ago, because as a transgender woman, she says she was constantly harassed and threatened by men in her neighborhood. Now T says she felt harassed again by Salvadoran authorities at the airport who asked her to strip naked as they checked her for tattoos. “They told me that if my tattoos made reference to gang affiliation, …
