Posted on 03/12/2025 10:49:42 AM PDT by ransomnote
With his hands and feet handcuffed, tied leg to leg with other detainees, José Daniel Simancas Rodríguez was put on a plane. He says he was told he would go to Miami.
Hours later, when they landed, Simancas and his fellow passengers were transferred to a bus with the windows covered by bags. By then he already suspected where he had arrived: Guantanamo. What he did not imagine was that this was just the beginning of a nightmare that would last 15 days.
Simancas was one of 177 Venezuelans deported by the United States who had been transferred to the US naval base in Cuba, a measure criticized by human rights organizations who say the base is not appropriate for housing migrants.
He says he can attest to these complaints: in the place where they locked him up, there was barely a sheet and pillow, they gave him almost no food and he was completely isolated, Simancas told CNN. The only sound that accompanied him during what he describes as “hell” were the screams of the other prisoners. The experience was so unbearable that, he says, he even thought about suicide.
Although at some point he had been told that he would be deported, the 30-year-old Venezuelan feared that he would never see his five children again. “I had already completely given up,” he recalls.
According to UNHCR, almost 8 million people have left Venezuela since 2014 as a result of the political, economic and social crisis in the South American nation.
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Republican in office...GITMO!!!
Next time pick another country to invade and leach off of, I hear England, France, Germany and Belgium are nice, try them.
Articles like this are just rage bait for the left.
I saw a similar video where some illegals were filming from a car as ICE agents broke the windows to get them out. One of the illegals was pregnant. The left was going nuts about how the illegal’s rights were violated.
Redditors are parroting AOCyounextTuesday, saying that being here illegally is only a civil matter, not criminal, and that these people should be left to remain in the US with all the benefits citizens enjoy.
If he didn't reenter the country, why was he in it?
Ah, thanks. 😁
Ah, thanks. 😁
Sounds like they treated him like a J6 protester. Except for him it was 15 days, not 3-4 years.
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