Index/Locations/El Salvador

El Salvador

Sovereign state in Central America

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Dec 12, 2025
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How many people have gone missing in ice custody

Available reporting and advocacy tallies indicate thousands of people have been reported “missing” from ICE/DHS public records since early 2025: a crowd‑sourced tracker claims 5,784 disappeared beginn...

Oct 27, 2025
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Are legal immigrants being deported by ICE?

Legal immigrants, including lawful permanent residents and visa holders, have been detained—and in some documented cases deported—by ICE in 2025 under expanded enforcement policies and through adminis...

Nov 22, 2025
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did venezuela empty its prisons and insane asylums so they can come to the the united states

There is no credible evidence in current reporting that Venezuela has carried out a systematic program to "empty its prisons and insane asylums" and send those people to the United States; multiple fa...

Oct 21, 2025

How many US citizens have been deported by ICE in 2024?

Public records and recent reporting show no authoritative, single-count confirmation that ICE deported any U.S. citizens in 2024; federal statements assert ICE does not deport citizens while investiga...

Dec 10, 2025

Which countries have signed trade deals with the U.S. under Trump (including post-2024 activities)?

The Trump administration since January 2025 has announced a string of bilateral “reciprocal” trade agreements, frameworks, and fact sheets naming at least the United Kingdom, European Union, Japan, So...

Dec 10, 2025

Have any US citizens been wrongfully deported since January 2025 and where were cases reported?

Reporting and public records show multiple instances in 2025 where U.S. government removal operations produced cases that courts and advocates have called “wrongful deportations,” including at least f...

Nov 21, 2025

Where have all the persons been deported to by nation

Available reporting shows the U.S. deportation picture is complex: federal agencies publish country-by-country removals and returns, and independent trackers report both hundreds of thousands of remov...

Nov 15, 2025

is bukele a muslim?

Public reporting and government sources show Nayib Bukele is not publicly identified as a Muslim: his father and some brothers are practicing Muslims, while Bukele has repeatedly said he does not belo...

Nov 21, 2025

How many trade deals has trump finalized for the usa this year?

Available reporting and government releases show the Trump administration announced or finalized multiple trade-related deals and frameworks during 2025, including framework or final agreements with a...

Dec 6, 2025

When did Donald Trump call some countries 'shithole' and which countries did he mean? (January 2018)

President Donald Trump used the phrase “shithole” during an Oval Office immigration meeting on or about January 11–12, 2018, reportedly criticizing immigration from Haiti, El Salvador and “some parts ...

Nov 4, 2025

Have there been any instances of ICE detaining or deporting US citizens by mistake?

Multiple investigations and lawsuits document instances where immigration agents detained or deported people who were U.S. citizens or had protected status, revealing systemic errors, at least dozens ...

Nov 15, 2025

What religion does Nayib Bukele's family follow and how visible is it?

Nayib Bukele comes from a family with visible Muslim roots: his father, Armando Bukele Kattán, converted to Islam, became a leading imam and founded mosques in El Salvador, and several of Nayib’s brot...

Dec 11, 2025

Are there documented cases of US citizens or legal immigrants wrongly deported under Donald Trump?

Multiple mainstream outlets and court records document instances in 2025 where people the government later acknowledged or courts found were removed improperly — including U.S. citizens and lawful res...

Dec 14, 2025

How do crime rates in San Salvador compare to other Central American capitals?

San Salvador (and El Salvador broadly) has seen a dramatic fall in homicides since 2015 — official figures and analysts place national homicide rates at about 1.9 per 100,000 in 2024 and even lower by...

Dec 6, 2025

Which countries did Trump reportedly refer to as "shithole" countries in January 2018?

Reports from January 2018 say President Donald Trump used the phrase “shithole countries” during an Oval Office meeting to describe Haiti, El Salvador and “African countries” broadly (see contemporane...

Oct 20, 2025

What are the key Supreme Court cases regarding due process for non-citizens?

The materials present several key claims: recent Supreme Court actions have allowed certain deportations under the Alien Enemies Act while affirming , the Court ordered relief for a mistakenly deporte...

Jan 12, 2026

Gun related death per capita for all countries

A complete, per-capita accounting of gun-related deaths exists in international datasets but cannot be sensibly printed in full here; authoritative compilations include the UNODC-derived Our World in ...

Dec 2, 2025

Is Kristi Noem going to jeil

Kristi Noem, the U.S. secretary of homeland security, is the focus of a DOJ criminal inquiry over her decision in March 2025 to continue deportation flights that a federal judge had ordered turned bac...

Oct 30, 2025

Which countries are currently on the human rights watchlist?

CIVICUS’s 2025 Watchlists and Amnesty International’s 2025 annual review document a shifting set of countries flagged for serious civic and human rights concerns; CIVICUS lists multiple countries acro...

Oct 18, 2025

A weird amount of American spies died or disappeared during Trump's presidency

The claim that “a weird amount of American spies died or disappeared during Trump’s presidency” is by the set of provided source analyses: none of the items in the dataset document a pattern of U.S. i...