What is so special about El Salvador's hellhole jails? Here are all the details you never knew about the dreaded prison

Former President Donald Trump has vowed to impose severe penalties, including up to 20-year prison terms, for individuals vandalizing Tesla vehicles or funding such acts. In social media posts, Trump suggested offenders could serve sentences in El Salvador …

US House Democrat backing El Salvador’s strongman president

A Texas Democrat is co-chair of a congressional caucus that has tirelessly promoted El Salvador’s authoritarian president, Nayib Bukele, including on the caucus’s X account by reposting calls to “impeach the corrupt judges” who impede the actions of Donald …

Kristi Noem Tours El Salvador’s Gang Prison Before Threatening To Deport More Criminals

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem toured El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), where she was shown suspected members of Venezuela’s dangerous Tren de Aragua gang who were deported from the United States. Noem …

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Visits High-Security El Salvador Prison Housing Alleged Venezuelan Gang Members ...

MITCHELL, S.D. (MITCHELLNOW) Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removal from the United States …

Trump administration arrests alleged gang leader from El Salvador

President Trump’s administration is celebrating the arrest of an alleged leader of the feared MS-13 gang in a dawn raid outside Washington. Pam Bondi, the attorney-general, called the suspect, 24, “the worst of the worst” and said he was “the leader for …

Noem visits El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans were sent, issues warning to immigrants

Kristi Noem criticized for filming video in front of caged prisoners in El Salvador

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Kristi Noem’s El Salvador Prison Photo Op Is a New Low

On Wednesday evening, a federal appeals court upheld a block on the Trump administration’s plans to deport immigrants under a centuries-old wartime law, which the administration recently invoked to send planes full of Venezuelan migrants to a hellacious El …

DHS Sec. Noem Parades in Front of El Salvador Supermax Jail as U.S. Courts Block Trump Expulsions

Back in the U.S., a federal appeals court has denied a request by the Trump administration to lift an order blocking the president from expelling immigrants out of the United States using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The court order came on the same day …

‘We’ll Hunt You Down’: DHS Sec. Warns Criminal Illegal Aliens Could Be Sent to El Salvador Prison

Criminal aliens illegally entering the US could be removed to El Salvador’s mega-prison, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem warned during a trip to the Central American nation. Touring the country’s renowned super-max Terrorism …