Dear John,

Our client, Edicson Quintero, faced such horrific abuse in El Salvador’s mega-prison that he cut his own stomach, using his blood to write a scrawling protest sign.

Mr. Quintero—a 28-year-old carpenter, fisherman, and father of two young children—was one of 252 Venezuelan migrants whom the Trump administration shipped off to the so-called Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), incommunicado and without due process.

Now, recent reporting from the New York Times has shed light on the horrendous conditions our client and the others endured. The article, ‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison, takes readers inside CECOT, where guards beat, starved, and sexually assaulted the migrants.

We’re relieved to say that Mr. Quintero is now free, but the mental and physical scars of his time in CECOT remain.

That’s why the American Immigration Council fights for due process. That’s why we fight for transparency—the U.S. government should never be able to “disappear” people like this ever again.

Help us hold the administration accountable for its abuses and defend every person’s right to due process.

Your support makes this work possible. Every gift helps us fight for justice for immigrants like Mr. Quintero.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Cassler
Senior Litigation Attorney