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The World Is Finally Seeing How Dangerous Bukele Really Is
Even if El Salvador’s president has ironically called himself the “coolest dictator in the world,” he’s a dictator ...
Federal judge won’t undo order requiring Trump administration to facilitate return of asylum seeker deported to El Salvador
A federal judge refused on Tuesday to wipe away her order that the Trump administration “facilitate” the return of a ...
Costa Rica looks to El Salvador in announcing new prison and tough-on-crime reforms
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has taken another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum ...
The New York Times6d
Lost in the ‘Death Realm’ of El Salvador’s Prisons
President Trump’s decision to send migrants to a Salvadoran prison has set off a national debate in the U.S. In El Salvador, the phenomenon of men disappearing into prisons is all too familiar.
Donald Trump’s Cruel and Unusual Innovations
Deporting illegal immigrants is lawful. Imprisoning them in El Salvador makes a mockery of the Eighth Amendment.
He’s Held in El Salvador’s Mega-Prison, Without Any Criminal Charges
Carlos Uzcategui’s legal journey to the U.S. put the Venezuelan on a collision course with an “unprecedented” deportation ...
New York Post6d
Hakeem Jeffries refuses to say whether Dems’ tone-deaf trips to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador were a ‘mistake’
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has dodged questions about whether it was a “mistake” for Democrats to visit an alleged MS-13 gangbanger deported to El Salvador ...
Marco Rubio and Salvadoran president have been in touch about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, sources say
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele have been directly in touch about the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the US mistakenly deported to El Salvador’s ...
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Rubio has been in touch with El Salvador's Bukele about Abrego Garcia: Sources
The details of their contact were not immediately clear. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been in touch with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongfully ...
The Hill5d
Jeffries denies report he discouraged Democrats from visiting El Salvador: ‘Phantom conversation’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday pushed back sharply against a report that he has discouraged members of his caucus from visiting El Salvador to highlight the Trump ...
The New Yorker5d
Trump’s Deportees to El Salvador Are Now “Ghosts” in U.S. Courts
This week, the stories in The Lede are devoted to the lives that have been upended during the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s second term. Pedro Escobar Blanco, one of two hundred and ...
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He was sent to El Salvador; she was sent to Venezuela. Their 2-year-old is still in the US
But that would never happen. Escalona was transferred to Guantanamo Bay and then sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador on March 30 under Title 8 authorities, according to the family ...