Trump's Slave Trade 2025 🪶 Kidnapped, Trafficked And Sold

Christy Walsh ✍ It is no exaggeration to say convicted felon Donald Trump has revived America’s dark past of slavery and wants to return to the days of penal colonies.

The elements of some forms of slavery have not changed for millennia, specifically, chattel slavery (human property) involves slavers kidnaping unsuspecting victims as they go about their lives, then shackle, shave, mistreat and traffic/disappear them as part of the dehumanising process. Victims are quickly disappeared and kept incognito, leaving their families not knowing what happened to them or if they will see their loved ones again. The victim’s communities and families are terrorised and left in a state of nervous shock. Those left behind live in fear of ICE (slavers) returning. No one is safe, including children who are left traumatised and in fear.

ICE use ethnicity and tattoos to find their victims and not evidence of guilt. Evidence of criminality or unlawful entry into the US are not required. Willing ethnic accomplices (Latinos for Trump) and pardoned J6 insurrectionists help catch victims. Victims have political and economic value and the US/El Salvadorian relationship is purely a commercial transaction over chattel (property). ICE tactics have been so ruthlessly indiscriminate that schools and children with cancer can be targeted. It is for good reason, other countries have issued warnings, to their citizens, about the dangers of travelling to the US which has become a banana republic almost overnight.

None of the victims have committed any crimes in the United States or El Salvador. It only takes an “Opsie, too late” mistake for a person to be disappeared to El Salvador with no prospect of return.[1] A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman explained there was no need for evidence of criminality if prejudicial innuendo will be enough, "[they] are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gangsters, and more. They just don't have a rap sheet in the U.S.”[2] There is no due process or presumption of innocence, and unlawful arrest and detention doesn’t properly explain what is occurring to these men. Internment involves incarceration by removal of due process and that too falls short to explain their plight. These men are not held on any lawful purpose but on the abuse of power to exercise complete ownership over them. Their capitivity in El Salvador involved a monetary exchange and that means slavery properly defines the whole torturous ordeal these men and their families are subject to: disappeared into one of the world’s most brutal prisons on no legitimate lawful grounds, no evidence of doing anything wrong, no visits, no phone calls, no legal representation, and no judicial oversight.

Pro bono lawyers and human rights bodies cannot communicate with the victims but are doing what they can in both the US and El Salvador – where applications for the sacred writ of habeas corpus cannot be enforced. Even illegal immigrants have Constitutional rights under the 5th Amendment. But in the eyes of two Dictators, Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele, slaves have no Constitutional or habeas corpus protection. The writ of habeas corpus originates from a case involving an escaped slave hiding in the hold of a ship in an English port: Slavers argued he was their chattel and wanted him returned but Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, famously declared: ‘any man who breathes English air is a freeman.” (Somerset v Stewart case (1772)). Possession, or ownership, over Trump and Bukele’s victims is absolute and their victims are merely objects for the 2 dictators to negotiate the right price for their human chattel.

Slavery and inhuman and degrading treatment are universally prohibited. Both the United States and El Salvador are signatories to the American Convention on Human Rights "Pact of San Jose, Costa Rica". Both are guilty of violating Articles 5, 6 and 7 of the Convention. Article 6 prohibits slavery or involuntary servitude. Article 5 prohibits inhuman and degrading treatment. Article 7 protects the right to freedom and due process in both jurisdictions. The high profile case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has exposed the process, from its flaws, to the wilful intention to do wrong. Hopefully, Mr Garcia and his family will soon be reunited, but it must be remembered the other men trafficked and sold to El Salvador are all victims, along with their families and children. A US federal court has ordered his return.[3] But, the legitimacy of the US Courts hangs in the balance under the Trump Regime. In fact, 5 Supreme Court Justices are whores to Trump and his billionaire friends and undercut the Federal Judge by refusing to uphold his order. SCOTUS deference to the Trump Regime is reminiscent to a ruling in a 2009 by an Australian Judge, John Dyson Heydon KC:

The proceedings reveal a strange alliance. A party which has a duty to assist the court in achieving certain objectives fails to do so. A court which has a duty to achieve those objectives does not achieve them. The torpid languor of one hand washes the drowsy procrastination of the other.[4]

No one can enforce civil or human rights law in corrupt authoritarian regimes especially where their Supreme Court Justices are subservient to dictators and bribes. The most the Trump Regime will do is confirm that Mr Garcia is still alive[5]. That was assumed, but that raises the question have other men died? Did Mr Garcia and/or other men suffer any serious injuries during their ill-treatment? Are they receiving regular meals and access to water? Do they get medical treatment for any injuries? Can the International Red Cross be granted access for a welfare check on these men?

The preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has particular relevance to the Trump Regime’s manifold attacks on democracy and civil society:

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law.*

Martin Niemöller’s poem ‘First They Came’, warns of the dangers of silence and not speaking out against oppression and tyranny. Now Trump has stated his intention to subject US citizens to being disappeared to El Salvador[6] for as little as causing criminal damage to a car[7]. During Monday’s meeting between Trump and Bukele, both men were in open agreement about Trump creating an archaic penal colony in El Salvador for US citizens. And every citizen should be concerned how both dictators expressed their disinterest in fixing mistakes. One reason the Trump Regime might be steadfastly against fixing its admitted mistake with Mr Garcia, is because it knows if it fixes it they might have to ‘fix’ the whole flawed and unlawful enterprise.

The US is an emerging pariah state, aligning itself with the world’s worst tyrants and dictators by showing it has no regard for fundamental human rights of either citizens, migrant workers or asylum seekers. It is not unimaginable that Trump might rendition political opponents to Moscow or start pushing them out windows.

* Note: many observers have been short sighted to believe that Trump would selflessly help Elon Musk to become the world’s first Trillionaire, I’d say from his known egomaniac criminal propensity, Trump has his eye on that goal for himself.

References

[1] See After Judge Blocks Alien Enemies Act, White House Claims Nearly 300 Already Deported,

[2] See U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records.

[3] See Judge demands daily updates on return plan for Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador.

[4] AON Risk Services Australia Ltd v Australian National University (2009) 239 CLR 175.

[5] See Mistakenly deported man is alive and detained in El Salvador, Trump admin says.

[6] See White House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizens.

[7] See Trump Threatens to Jail Tesla Vandals in El Salvador Prisons.

⏩ Christy Walsh was stitched up by the British Ministry of Defence in a no jury trial and spent many years in prison as a result.