1. 트럼프 정부, 국토안전부 크리스티 뇜에 대한 비판.
(1) 3월 26일 트럼프 정부, 국토안전부 장관 크리스티 뇜 (Kristi Noem)이, 반인권적인 행동을 했다.
(2) 엘 사바도에 있는 수용소에 갇힌 정체불명의 사람들을 배경으로 사진을 찍고, '미등록 체류자,이민자'가 되면 이렇게 갇히게 된다고 협박하는 동영상을 트위터(X)에 올렸다.
(3) 전 세계적인 비판이 쏟아졌다.
- 철창과 사람을 배경으로 협박조의 발언은 반인권적이다.
- 이바니아 크루즈 인권 변호사의 비판. 크리스티 뇜이 ‘감옥’을 극장 공간으로 활용했다고 비난. 현재 감옥에 갇힌 사람들의 '신분'과 갱단 연관성 입증가 없다고 지적.
- 팀 밀러 '내 생애 최대 역겨운 장면이었다'고 크리스티를 비판.
(4)
눈썰미있는 사람들은 크리스티에 대해, 7~8천만원 짜리 롤렉스 금 시계 차고, 불법 체류자 이민자들 감옥에 처넣겠다고 협박하는 크리스티 뇜 장관이 역겹다고 비난하기도. 크리스티에 대해 카고 바지, 야구 모자, 캐주얼 흰 셔츠, 고가 롤렉스 금 시계 차고 나타난 속물이라고 비난.
2. 트럼프와 베네수엘라와의 정치적 갈등 - 배경
(1) 감옥 이름
국토부 장관 크리스티 뇜이 방문한 엘 사바도르의 감옥은 'CECOT 세콧'은 2022년에 건설, 최대 4만명 수용 가능한 대형 감옥.
세콧 - ' the Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT)'
- 최근 300명 미국으로부터 수용. ‘트렌 데 아라과’ 갱단으로 간주
(2) - 트럼프는 ‘트렌 데 아라과’ 갱단과 베네수엘라 정부와 연계되어 있다고 비난.
- 그러나 미국 정보국은 연관성을 부정, 트럼프는 이들을 갱단이라고 주장하나, 입증 자료를 제출하고 있지 않다.
- 트럼프가 베네수엘라 갱단, '트렌 데 아라과 Tren de Aragua'와 연관된 600명이 미국으로 들어와 있다고 발표한 후, 200여명을 체포해 엘 사바도에 있는 '테러리즘 감옥'에 가뒀다. 이 들 중에 실제 갱단원들도 있지만 무고한 사람들도 있다고 언론 보도.
(3) 미국 내 베네수엘라 이민자 현황.
약 77만 베네수엘라 이민자 중, 31만은 2024년에 미국으로 들어옴.
트럼프는 베네수엘라 범죄율이 낮아진 이유는, 미국으로 베네수엘라 사람들이 많이 이주해왔기 때문이라고 조롱.
트럼프는 '트렌 데 아라과' 갱단을 국제 테러단체로 지목, 이슬람국가 Islamic State), 보코 하람 (Boko Haram), 나이지리아 이슬람전사 Islamist militants)와 같은 등급으로 격상 발표함.
3. 크리스트 뇜 Kristi Noem
1971년 미국 사우스 다코타 출생, 그 곳 주지사 출신, 트럼프 2기 행정부 '국토안전부 장관' . 노르웨이 계열 미국 이민자 후손으로 알려짐. 미국 캐나다에서는 농촌 출신들을 'farm boy' 'farm girl' 이라고 부르는데, 크리스티는 전형적인 팜걸. 보수적인 미 공화당원의 전형, 총기 사용 옹호자이고, 코로나 19 시기 마스크 착용을 '음모론'이라 비난, 착용을 거부함.
팀 밀러. "지금까지 살면서 내가 본 가장 역겨운 장면이다" 이라고 트럼프 행정부 크리스티 뇜 '국토안전 장관'을 비판.
눈썰미있는 사람들은 크리스티에 대해, 7~8천만원 짜리 롤렉스 금 시계 차고, 불법 체류자 이민자들 감옥에 처넣겠다고 협박하는 크리스티 뇜 장관이 역겹다고 비난하기도.
Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem recently visited
the Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT) in El Salvador,
sending a direct warning to those considering unlawful entry into the US.
3월 26일 -
Kristi Noem criticized for filming video in front of caged prisoners in El Salvador
Ariana Baio
Thu, March 27, 2025 at 10:47 a.m. EDT·3 min read
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is facing backlash for using a crowded prison cell filled with deported migrants in El Salvador as the backdrop for a video threatening to prosecute people who come to the United States illegally.
“If you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you can face,” Noem said in a video filmed at the Terrosm Confinement Center, known as CECOM, and posted to social media Wednesday evening.
Behind Noem in the video is a prison cell filled with men who are huddled together, trying to fit onto three-tier metal detention beds. The men wear uniform outfits: white t-shirts and white underpants with freshly shaved heads – keeping many of their identities concealed. Some are shirtless with their tattoos visible and others wear medical face masks.
On social media, several people accused Noem of using the individuals as “props” for her video.
“Regardless of political ideology, using human beings as background props in propaganda is nasty work,” journalist Zack Guzmán wrote on X.
“What staging. Were they holding rifles pointed at the prisoners while she spoke about them like this? Either way, this is wild!” Francisco Gonzalez responded on X.
The Seneca Project called the video “absolutely vile.”
“CECOT is not EPCOT!” Cliff wrote.
Others on social media noticed Noem wearing several pieces of jewelry, including a large gold watch, and pointed to the juxtaposition of the scene.
“Wearing what appears to be a $50k gold Rolex Daytona to film a threat of due-process free rendition to a third-world prison is a really special touch, Secretary,” Patrick Jaicomo, a civil rights litigator, wrote.
Noem used the visual of the prison to threaten other migrants, claiming those who come to the U.S. illegally will be “removed” and “prosecuted.”
“But know that this facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people,” Noem said.
Simply entering the U.S. illegally is not a crime; it is a civil offense.
Several people on X shared their frustrations with Noem’s use of visuals to bolster her efforts to help deport undocumented immigrants.
“Anyone as tired of these photo/video ops as I am?” An X user asked in the replies.
Another social media user named Tom similarly told Noem, “Prefer you spending more time on facilitating actual outcomes; as compared to 20 social media propaganda posts every week.”
Located in El Salvador’s capital, the maximum security prison is notorious. Inmates are packed into cells and only allowed outside of them for 30 minutes. They cannot communicate with family or receive visitors. Inmates are also not allowed to receive education.
President Donald Trump has partnered with the Salvadorian government to send approximately 230 undocumented immigrants accused of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang to the facility; however, the administration is accused of sending them there without due process.
Administration officials have not confirmed the identity of the individuals they sent nor the crimes they supposedly committed. A federal judge has blocked officials from continuing to send migrants to the prison – though a lawsuit currently accuses the administration of defying that court order.
“No American—Republican or Democrat—should accept DHS using CECOT to sidestep the Constitution,” Alex Howard, the former spokesperson for DHS, said in response to Noem’s video. “Stripping due process is un-American, full stop. We don’t protect our country by abandoning the principles that define it. We’re better than this.”
가디언 보도 요지.
2022년 감옥 (CECOT) 건설, 4만명 수용 가능한 대형 감옥. 최근 300명 미국으로부터 수용. ‘트렌 데 아라과’ 갱단으로 간주
이바니아 크루즈 변호사의 비판. 크리스티 뇜이 ‘감옥’을 극장 공간으로 활용했다고 비난.
트럼프는 ‘트렌 데 아라과’ 갱단과 베네수엘라 정부와 연계되어 있다고 비난.
미국 정보국은 연관성을 부정.
트럼프는 이들을 갱단이라고 주장하나, 입증 자료를 제출하고 있지 않다.
Human rights groups rebuke Kristi Noem’s visit to El Salvador prison: ‘political theater’
Homeland security chief went to infamous prison holding deported Venezuelans as White House targets immigrants
José Olivares
Thu 27 Mar 2025 19.09 GMT
Human rights organizations on Thursday denounced the visit by the US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to the notorious prison in El Salvador that is holding hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the US earlier this month without a hearing, calling her actions “political theater”.
Critics condemned Noem’s visit as just the latest example of the Trump administration’s aim to spread fear among immigrant communities, as the cabinet member stood in a baseball hat in front of a line of caged men bare from the waist up.
Noem visited the so-called Cecot, or Terrorism Confinement Center, an infamous maximum-security prison. The prison, built in 2022 during a brutal government crackdown on organized crime, is where nearly 300 migrants, previously in US custody, were recently expelled and are currently detained.
They have been accused of being violent gang members, despite family members of several of the men asserting that they are not.
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“The Department of Homeland Security secretary’s visit is an example of the fear that Trump’s government wants to instill in immigrants,” attorney Ivania Cruz said on Thursday.
Cruz works with the Committee to Defend Human and Community Rights (Unidehc), a human rights organization in El Salvador. “This is precisely what Noem has done — use the Cecot as a cinematographic space,” she added.
Noem’s visit to the prison “was a typical gross and cruel display of political theater that we have come to expect from the Trump administration,” Vicki Gass said.
Gass is the executive director of the Latin America Working Group (LAWG), a human rights organization based in Washington DC. “That the Trump administration is flouting judicial orders and denying due process to people within the US borders is outrageous and frightening.”
Earlier this month, Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime provision that allows the executive to detain and deport people coming from an “enemy” nation.
Despite a federal judge blocking the invocation of the act, shortly after, planes from the US landed in El Salvador, filled with men and women in immigration custody.
More than 250 men, mostly from Venezuela, were quickly and forcibly shuffled into the Cecot, where officials shaved their heads and placed them in cells.
Trump and his administration have repeatedly claimed that the men were members of transnational gangs.
When invoking the Alien Enemies Act, Trump – without proof – accused the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua of having “infiltrated” the US at the behest of the Venezuelan government. US intelligence agencies contradict Trump’s claims about ties between the gang and the Venezuelan government, the New York Times has reported, and the Venezuelan government has also denied it is connected.
News reports across various publications have emerged revealing the identity of the Venezuelan men expelled to El Salvador, with family members saying some of the men are innocent. When pressed, the DHS (국토안전부) has not provided proof of those men’s purported ties to the gang and they were flown out of the US without a hearing, raising questions about violations of constitutional due process rights.
The federal judge in Washington who blocked the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act has repeatedly pressed the Trump administration to provide information about their process to conduct the operation, also ordering “individualized hearings” for people Trump wants to expel under the act. In response, the Trump administration invoked “state secrets” privilege, to avoid disclosing any information about the operation.
The Salvadorian prison that Noem visited was constructed in 2022, during El Salvador’s “state of exception”, a move by the president, Nayib Bukele, that rounded up thousands of people in an attempt to crack down on criminal gangs. According to Cruz, the human rights attorney, and other organizations, the state of exception violated due process rights, with thousands being caught up in arrests and detention without proof of gang membership.
people gather outside and hold signs in spanish
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Cruz has been targeted for her work denouncing conditions in the Salvadorian prisons. During the state of exception, her brother was arrested and imprisoned by the Bukele government. Cruz fought for his release and since then, she has taken on a role as a key spokesperson for people who have been wrongfully detained in the prisons.
“It is not by chance that the expelled immigrants are from Venezuela, when we know there is a political conflict between the two countries,” Cruz said. “Today it is Venezuelans – tomorrow may be Chileans, then Colombians. It’s an international problem that is provoking conflict.”
Noem’s visit came one day before a protest organized by a Salvadorian rights organization, opposing the Central American government’s “arbitrary detentions”.
“I also want everybody to know, if you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you can face,” Noem said in a video posted on X from the Cecot prison. “Know that this facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people.”
The use of another country’s vast, maximum-security prison to detain immigrants from a third country is unprecedented, especially considering the grave allegations of abuses at this and other Salvadorian prisons.
“Amnesty International has extensively documented the inhumane conditions within detentions centers in El Salvador, including the Cecot, where those removed are now being held,” the organization said in a statement on Wednesday. “Reports indicate extreme overcrowding, lack of access to adequate medical care, and widespread ill-treatment amounting to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.”
According to Ana María Méndez Dardón, the Central America director for the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights non-profit in DC, there are two or three huge prisons in El Salvador where the mass incarceration of people has been concentrated.
The detention centers in the country have faced extreme allegations of human rights abuses.
US deportees face brutal conditions in El Salvador mega-prison: ‘Severe overcrowding, inadequate food’
“The Cecot has a capacity for 40,000 people, that is to say only 30% of the current prison population, the rest of the population is located in other centers, such as the one in Mariona, where torture and other human rights violations have been documented,” Méndez Dardón said.
She added: “Unlike the videos edited and produced about Cecot, President Bukele is not showing the world the true reality within the other detention centers, where the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has stated that they have committed torture and other cruel and inhuman treatment.”
Reports have described bare metal bunks stacked high like shelving and with no bedding whatsoever.
The Trump administration’s practice of denying due process and defying judicial orders “is outrageous and frightening”, Gass, from LAWG, added. “So is forcibly disappearing them to Cecot where prisoners are not allowed to meet with lawyers or their family members, are jammed into overcrowded cells, and never see the light of day.”
언론보도. bbc 트럼프와 베네수엘라.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr421q5zl69o
Tren de Aragua: What is the Venezuelan gang targeted by Trump?
The gang began in a prison and is estimated to have thousands of members across eight countries.
www.bbc.com
CECOT 감옥
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