Article 6W0V8 Trump waging ‘sickening’ psychological war, deported Venezuelan’s lawyer says

Trump waging ‘sickening’ psychological war, deported Venezuelan’s lawyer says

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Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent
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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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