The Trump administration essentially says it can't confirm or deny whether El Salvador is complying with the Convention Against Torture because it might damage trust with El Salvador. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

/2 It doesn’t matter in the slightest that these not actually be gang members, any more than it matters that not everybody charged with a crime did it. The state dictating who is The Other, and it being an article of faith, is the point.