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The US deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, many of whom were sent to the CECOT prison after being labeled as linked to the Tren de Aragua gang
In mid‑March 2025 the United States flew a large group of Venezuelan men to El Salvador’s CECOT maximum‑security prison; reporting places the flights on March 15 and the deportations at roughly 240–26...
The available reporting does not provide a single, verified tally of how many Venezuelan men deported by the United States to a Salvadoran prison in March had criminal convictions of any kind; indepen...
The claim that the Venezuelan men the U.S. deported in March to El Salvador “were already in prison for other offenses” is not supported by the bulk of available reporting: multiple investigations fou...
Since 2024, coordination between the United States and El Salvador on migrants labeled as gang-affiliated has combined formal agreements, ad hoc operational deals and law-enforcement cooperation — fro...