Well, he did promise to be a dictator on day one.
President Donald Trump executed, arguably, the most decisive action of his fledgling second term with the deportation of more than 200 people to a prison in El Salvador.
Among those swept up in the sting was a 23-year-old gay Venezuelan asylum seeker. His attorney, Lindsay Toczylowski, appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show, saying her client has disappeared in a massive prison with a capacity for 40,000 inmates.
“We feel it’s important to let the world know who Andrys, our client is, because he is a human being. He is a young professional from Venezuela. He’s a makeup artist. He is a gay man,” Tocylowski said.
Using the Aliens Enemies Act of 1798, Trump said the migrants were criminals with gang ties. Denied due process, they were put on planes and flown to the terrorist confinement center known as CECOT.
The mass deportation went through despite a federal judge’s emergency order to stop it.
“Just on Trump’s say-so, you’re gone out of the country, disappeared indefinitely,” said Maddow, who called the situation one of the most dramatic crises of the new presidency.
Andrys was, reportedly, flagged by immigration officials because his tattoos might be gang related, an accusation his attorney denied.
“These are normal tattoos that you would see on anybody in a coffee shop anywhere in the United States or Venezuela,” Tocylowski told the MSNBC host.
