Second Discussion re the similaries

 This time an opinion piece from  a Guantanamo lawyer. Mark Denbeaux was one of the leading attorneys trying to bring Due Process rights to the men the US government was illegally holding.

Guantánamo is a horror Americans have tried to forget. But the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) deportation regime resembles so many of Guantánamo’s evils that it compels comparison. That comparison reveals significant differences but frightening similarities.

‘The US government’s own evidence establishes that only 8% of those brought to Gitmo were al-Qaida fighters.’

Read the rest here.

(h/o to Walt for sharing!)

Two discussions about the similarities between the war on Migrants and the war on "terror."

First: From "Close Guantanamo" 

Radio: Discussing Trump’s “war on migrants”, CECOT and Guantánamo

Dear friends and supporters,

In our latest article, Radio: Discussing Trump’s “War on Migrants”, the Template Provided by Guantánamo and the Horrors of the CECOT Prison in El Salvador, we’re featuring a radio interview that our co-founder Andy Worthington undertook yesterday with Rebecca Myles for “Frontline Voices”, a show on WBAI in New York.