The Biden administration‘s handling of immigration was disastrous, and his policies contributed to a border crisis so severe that even the New York Times acknowledged its seriousness. This was a top issue for voters, so no one can deny that President Donald Trump was elected with a clear mandate to secure the border and stop the crisis, which, to his credit, he has done. But Trump has done more than just end former President Joe Biden’s broken border policies and greatly reduce the flow of illegal immigration. The president has gone beyond immigration enforcement and treated illegal and legal immigrants alike in a way that violates their basic human and constitutional rights.

At least, that’s the inescapable takeaway of a new report from Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies David J. Bier. He analyzed the list of immigrants the Trump administration has sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador and found that many of the people the federal government sent to this dystopian hellhole at U.S. taxpayer expense never actually broke our immigration laws — and that, regardless, our government has egregiously violated their basic human rights.