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Thank you, Mossy Matriarch, for daring to ask the questions the world tries to ignore.

For not letting barbed wire and satellite silence speak louder than human truth.

See, I don’t need a satellite image to tell me what a cage feels like.

I know.

Because I lived it.

I served two years in Salinas Valley State Prison—one of the worst in California.

I spent 23 hours a day on lockdown.

Sometimes longer—days stretching into weeks, depending on the mood of the guards or the corruption they felt like feeding that week.

No sunlight. No movement. Just concrete, steel, and the weight of forgotten lives.

And I was born in Salinas. So don’t talk to me about irony.

CECOT may not call itself a death camp. But when people disappear into it without charges, without lawyers, without contact with family—what are we supposed to call that?

When 238 Venezuelans are deported straight into that machine—no trial, no hearing—what do we call that?

When a U.S. resident, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is ripped from Maryland and dumped into CECOT against a court order—and nobody brings him home—what do we call that?

This isn’t justice.

It’s administrative cruelty.

And it’s not just happening over there—it’s endorsed from right here.

We are watching human rights unravel while we scroll.

But I’m not here just to sound the alarm.

I’m here to say: I believe in better. I’ve lived worse—and I still believe.

I believe in a future where safety doesn’t mean silence.

Where order doesn’t require cages.

Where human dignity isn’t negotiable.

There’s a generation coming up that’s wide awake.

They see through the PR.

They know when power is lying.

And they’re not afraid to fight for the kind of world where no one—no one—vanishes behind steel and stone just because it’s politically convenient.

So thank you for speaking truth.

Let’s keep raising the volume.

Until every cage is cracked open by justice.

And every soul they tried to disappear finds their way back to the light.

Because a prison without justice isn’t just wrong.

It’s a crime.

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