Margaret Cargioli
@CargioliM
Directing Atty, Policy and Advocacy. Immigration, Human Rights, & Social Justice. My personal views. [email protected]
Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos is free from CECOT and is now back home with his family. These men and their families are heroes. For four long months they found the will through the darkness to see the light. @ImmDef Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos se liberó de…
The answer to this isn’t opening up concentration camps or sending people to third countries where they can be tortured. How about treating human beings like you would want your mother, son, or grandchild to be treated no matter the color of their skin or where they were born?…
🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact
BREAKING: Judge Xinis has blocked ICE from immediately taking Kilmar Abrego Garcia into custody after he was ordered released from criminal detention in Tennessee. She says he must be returned to Maryland on an order of supervision. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
🚨Now that the men imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador are free, their stories are coming out; and they are horrific. One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.
“U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’” Their accounts mirror Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s descriptions of torture at CECOT. via WaPo🎁🔗 wapo.st/3GZuXCW
“They chained me to the ground," a Nicaraguan migrant seeking U.S. asylum told WLRN in a phone call from inside Alligator Alcatraz. "I was in the sun, like, from one o’clock to seven o’clock in the evening — without no water.”
'They chained me to the ground': Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz allege harsh punishment by guards. Our @WLRN report.wlrn.org/immigration/20…
It doesn't matter if you're a Republican, Democrat or Independent -- we ALL have a responsibility to speak up and push back against Trump's advance toward authoritarianism, before it's too late.
Grateful that Andry Hernández Romero is alive and being reunited with family. We are working to make sure he’s safe and getting support after a horrific and traumatic few months.
REUNITED, for real this time. On Friday 7/18 Ysqueibel + 251 Venezuelan men were released from CECOT & sent to VZ. That day he was allowed to hug his family but couldn't leave govt custody. Today is his first day outside some govt's custody in months. The Trump admin abducted &…
Ysqueibel is a 25 yo loving son who worked as a gardener, refrigerator technician & Uber driver while in the US. He entered lawfully through CBP1 App. He was detained w/our client, musician Arturo Suarez, after ICE broke the door down in a home where they were filming a music…
Ysqueibel's mother said, “He left Venezuela for a better future and it turned into a nightmare." Now he is reunited with family in his home country but none of this was on his terms. The nightmare is far from over as Ysqueibel contends with the effects of 4 months of torture and…
“While the Trump administration disappears human beings to countries around the world without due process, it will take all of us, from all over the world, to help free the human beings callously sent to dangerous places such as CECOT and prevent others from experiencing the same…
Thanks to everyone who spoke out for all of the men cruelly sent to CECOT to be freed. Another human being is now back home with his loving family. Working on Ysqueibel’s case was surreal at times because as a human rights lawyer this was a living nightmare. Ysqueibel’s mom…
REUNITED, for real this time. On Friday 7/18 Ysqueibel + 251 Venezuelan men were released from CECOT & sent to VZ. That day he was allowed to hug his family but couldn't leave govt custody. Today is his first day outside some govt's custody in months. The Trump admin abducted &…
The hands that feed us. We see you. We will fight to protect you. op: shayfarmkid (via IG)
At least a dozen Democratic lawmakers have been barred from entering ICE detention centers because the Trump Administration is trying to hide the inhumane conditions and detainment of innocent people. calmatters.org/politics/2025/…
HERNANDEZ: What did you see in ‘Alligator Alcatraz’? SMITH: We saw a lot of people are getting very rich. And it’s the Republican donors being given $450 MILLION in contracts to build and run this site.
The response to this brutality is not to build more detention centers that should not exist in the first place or send people to third countries where they could be abused. Human beings should be treated with dignity. #humanity
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
“In one alleged incident in April…staff turned off a surveillance camera & a “disturbance control team” brutalized detainees who were protesting a lack of medical attention to one…who was coughing up blood. One detainee suffered a broken finger.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Just left Florida’s Everglades immigrant detention camp. 750 humans in cages. Not allowed to speak to detainees. No walk through of occupied areas. Immigrants without criminal records. $450 MILLION in no-bid contracts for GOP donors. I am ashamed. Shut this facility down now.
*Update on Ysqueibel 7/20. The family is still waiting for him to go home. Another @ImmDef client’s mom told me that only some families were able to see their loved one when the planes arrived as they were near the reception site. Some families have received calls from their…