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The Independent17d
Even El Salvador’s president questioned Trump team on if migrants being sent were actually gang members: report
open image in gallery El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and President Donald Trump appeared to be on the same page at last month’s Oval Office meeting. But privately, the El Salvadoran presiden ...
New York Post17d
Hakeem Jeffries refuses to say whether Dems’ tone-deaf trips to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador were a ‘mistake’
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has dodged questions about whether it was a “mistake” for Democrats to visit an alleged MS-13 gangbanger deported to El Salvador ...
The New York Times18d
Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison
New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang. Credit ...
Fox News18d
Maryland governor says he won't travel to El Salvador for Abrego Garcia
Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., confirmed to Fox News Digital that he will not travel to El Salvador following the deportation of the so-called "Maryland man," Kilmar Abrego Garcia. In Washington this ...
CNN19d
Trump admin proposed sending up to 500 alleged Venezuelan gang members during negotiations to use El Salvador’s mega-prison
The United States proposed sending up to 500 Venezuelan migrants with alleged ties to the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador as the two governments sought to reach an agreement on the use of the ...
NBC New York19d
An inside look at the El Salvador prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was moved
An imate feeds a baby cow in Centro Industrial prison in Santa Ana El Salvador, in April 2025. (NBC News) “We only house the common population,” said Samuel Diaz, the prison’s director and ...
The Independent22d
Matt Gaetz visited El Salvador’s mega-prison and saw people drained of hope. He then pitched it to Stephen Miller
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation22d
What we know about CECOT, El Salvador's mega-prison taking Trump's deportees
Beneath a volcano in El Salvador lies a secretive mega-prison where the only way out, according to the justice minister, is in a coffin. Known as CECOT — the Spanish language acronym for ...
The Hill23d
How Republicans embraced El Salvador and made it a political stage
El Salvador has now been under the 30-day measure for three years. The country has imprisoned more than 100,000 people detained in facilities designed to hold 70,000. Its overall incarceration ...
Esquire23d
The Current Perfidy in El Salvador Hearkens Back to a Huge Scandal Under Reagan
For those of us who are longtime students of neoconservative perfidy, it is something of a surprise to see El Salvador back in the news again. Then along comes The New Republic to remind us that ...
Global News23d
Venezuelan man deported to El Salvador after wrong turn at Ambassador Bridge
A Venezuelan man reportedly took a wrong turn onto the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, crossing into Canada, and was then allegedly detained and deported to El Salvador when he tried to return to U ...
WBUR24d
What's inside El Salvador's mega prison?
Until this week, Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Maryland resident wrongfully detained and deported to El Salvador in March — was being held in El Salvador's infamous new mega prison. Abrego Garcia ...