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Josué Aguilar Valle, a Honduran national, recalls the “terrible” conditions at the migrant jails where U.S. immigration authorities imprisoned him last year. In La Salle County, Texas, Aguilar shared a frigid cell with 50 men, sleeping on the concrete floor. “I thought I was going to ex...
The strongest version of this narrative presents a compelling historical continuum: U.S. foreign policy, from Cold War interventions to modern immigration enforcement, has systematically employed disappearance as a tool of control. The article effectively steelmans its argument by grounding contemporary ICE practices in well-documented historical precedents—Pinochet’s Chile, Reagan’s Central America, and the Mérida Initiative’s blowback. It credits human rights organizations, legal findings, and...