It’s that threat that you saw the Trump administration invoking in order to terrorize immigrants,” said J. That same day, the administration rushed three flights holding 238 Venezuelans and 23 Salvadorans it claimed were gang members, without evidence in most cases, off to El Salvador. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to halt the removals and turn the flights around, but the administration did not comply. Once in El Salvador, the migrants were sent to an infamous maximum security prison called the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT). The U.S. is reportedly paying El Salvador about $6 million to imprison the detainees.

Source: Huffington Post April 12, 2025 21:33 UTC