Trump waging ‘sickening’ psychological war, deported Venezuelan’s lawyer says
by Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent from US news | The Guardian on (#6W0V8)
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A lawyer for one of the Venezuelan immigrants sent from the US to a notorious mega prison in El Salvador has accused the Trump administration of waging a sickening" campaign of psychological warfare against asylum seekers and migrants.
In my 15 years of representing people in removal proceedings in the United States, this is the most shocking thing that I've ever seen happen to one of our clients," said Lindsay Toczylowski, a California-based lawyer for the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) group.
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