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The Trump administration has an arrangement with El Salvador to place deported undocumented immigrants and even American citizens convicted of crimes in one of the world’s most notorious prisons.

But if the administration is to be believed — a risky proposition under any circumstances — that deal doesn’t allow the U.S. government to get those people back, even if it made a mistake sending them there in the first place.

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Welcome to the disappearance of human beings in America, a concept that befouls every ideal this nation is supposed to stand for.

Liberty. Human rights. Due process. A government bound by the rule of law.

Those principles vanished in an instant for Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, who was arrested March 12 and put on a plane three days later bound for El Salvador. There, he is now said to be imprisoned at the Terrorism Confinement Center, a massive, overcrowded facility where prisoners are never allowed outside, and from which El Salvador’s justice minister has........

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