I’d thought of some even stronger adjectives while talking to the Guardian’s Tom Phillips today, but wanted to keep my PG-13 rating.

Immigration advocates have voiced outrage at the plight of men such as García and the lack of due process in their cases. “It’s enraging because they clearly don’t have any affiliation with Tren de Aragua at all,” said Adam Isacson, a migration expert from the Washington Office on Latin America thinktank. Isacson said that in the past such migrants tended to face detention in a “miserable [detention] centre here in the United States” or were “shipped back” home. “It did not mean that you were sent to some medieval jail of an authoritarian leader in another country. So we’re in brand new ground here,” Isacson warned, adding that while it was possible some of those deported to El Salvador were hardened criminals, many appeared to be innocent.