The revelation was contained in court filings Monday by lawyers for more than 100 migrants who are seeking to challenge their deportations to CECOT, El Salvador’s mega-prison.

Under this unofficial agreement, El Salvador houses an “unlimited” number of people expelled from the U.S. who stand accused of belonging to gangs such as the Tren de Aragua and the Mara ...

The bishops of El Salvador, seen in this undated photo, published a pastoral letter May 29, 2025, criticizing use of one of the country's maximum prisons to incarcerate migrants deported from the ...

Since the start of the state of emergency, Salvadoran authorities have detained over 86,000 people. El Salvador has one of the highest rates of pretrial detention in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to CECOT on March 16.

Van Hollen was the first of several Democrats to fly to El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia and to advocate for his return to the U.S. Abrego Garcia, whom the DOJ is prosecuting on human ...

But as Mother Jones reports, he never made it because he’d been whisked off without due process to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) along with 230 Venezuelan immigrants.

He said journalists in El Salvador “can say whatever they want, including lies.” “Here no one is in danger, except people who commit crimes,” Guzmán said.

The US also sent back accused members of the notorious Salvadoran gang MS-13—which both the US and El Salvador have designated as a terrorist organization. Bukele’s presidency has been defined ...

As far as educating yourself with news, I would say that El Faro, Revista Factum, and Alharaca in El Salvador and El País in Spain are all doing excellent reporting. And every day, more mainstream US ...

The so-called Bukele model of national security is built on thousands of cases like that of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran immigrant who was improperly expelled to El Salvador in ...