End foreign renditions outright and forever and restrict third-country deportations.

The Trump administration has already rendered ICE detainees to a foreign prison in El Salvador once before; it has deported people to unsafe or hostile third countries, and it is aggressively pursuing more third-country deportation agreements with other nations. First, the extrajudicial rendition of El Salvadoran and Venezuelan deportees to CECOT, an El Salvadoran prison famous for its horrific cruelty and flagrant human rights violations, in defiance of a federal court order is wholly unacceptable and absolutely cannot, under any circumstances, be allowed to happen again. The $4.76 million contract between the US and El Salvador still stands, and the Trump administration is undoubtedly eager to take advantage of its terms. Third-country deportations to Ghana, South Sudan, and Eswatini executed last year have so far left over a dozen deportees missing or currently imprisoned without contact. Given the disappearances of ICE detainees, the number of US citizens mistakenly arrested by ICE, and President Trump’s zeal for prosecution and violence against his political enemies, it is easy to imagine that this administration is more than willing and functionally capable of disappearing its dissidents to foreign prisons and dangerous third countries to be tortured and killed.