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Reform has proposed transferring people convicted in the UK to prisons in El Salvador - a country known for serious human rights abuses. This would be financing brutality with British taxpayers’ money. Amnesty has documented mass arbitrary detention, beatings, torture and other ill-treatment, enforced disappearances, denial of medical care and deaths in custody in El Salvador's justice system. People in El Salvador have been cut off from their families and effectively disappeared into detention, while relatives have been left searching prisons, courts and even morgues for answers. Reform's proposal is a further extension of a wider politics that has moved dangerously far from any sense of what is practical, legal or constitutes basic human decency. We have already seen with the Rwanda scheme how policies once considered unthinkable can be pushed dangerously far when politicians choose headlines and hostility over real solutions to human needs. Too many politicians seem incapable of any real leadership – whether at home or internationally – preferring to agitate hate, violence and inhumanity that makes all of us less safe. This latest proposal from Reform provides a stark example of that.