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Citations and Further Reading:

Americans detained/harassed/deported by ICE
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/27/us/american-citizens-detained-ice-immigration
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/children-who-are-u-s-citizens-deported-along-with-foreign-born-mothers-attorneys-say

Black sites map
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/CIA_Secret_Prisons.svg

Black site conditions
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/cias-secret-sites-somalia 
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alimwatkins/documents-raise-disturbing-questions-about-detainee-abuse-un

Guantanamo Bay 
https://ccrjustice.org/home/get-involved/tools-resources/fact-sheets-and-faqs/guant-namo-numbers 
https://jacobin.com/2023/08/guantanamo-bay-prisoners-torture-abuses-war-on-terror-fionnuala-ni-aolain-report

Torture at black sites
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2022/Costs%20of%20War%20-%20Legacy%20of%20the%20'Dark%20Side'%20-%20Tayler%20and%20Epstein%20-%20FINAL%20Jan%209%202022.pdf 
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/us/politics/guantanamo-prisoner-drawings-torture.html 
https://web.archive.org/web/20110916223055/http://www.salon.com/news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction/index.html/

Illegality of torture
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2022/Costs%20of%20War%20-%20Legacy%20of%20the%20'Dark%20Side'%20-%20Tayler%20and%20Epstein%20-%20FINAL%20Jan%209%202022.pdf

Uselessness of torture
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-filesations-crpt-113srpt288.pdf 
https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/12/01/no-more-excuses/roadmap-justice-cia-torture

Obama “ends” torture/black sites
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/us/politics/23GITMOCND.html 
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alimwatkins/documents-raise-disturbing-questions-about-detainee-abuse-un

CECOT
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/migrants-freed-el-salvador-prison-allege-torture-1235397075/ 
https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump

Supreme Court and deportation loopholes
https://www.vox.com/scotus/416163/trump-supreme-court-deport-immigration-convention-torture

Third country deportation partners
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/29/trump-deport-immigrants-third-country-human-rights/ 
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/25/trump-immigrant-deportations-supreme-court/

Revival of torture
https://tomdispatch.com/everything-old-is-new-again/

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