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El Salvador’s Exceptional Prison State
I heard this story again and again when I visited El Zonte, a surfing town on El Salvador’s Pacific coast, in March 2023. A ...
Who is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the US must retrieve from an El Salvador prison?
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s story appeared as if it would begin and end in his native El Salvador. But the U.S. Supreme Court on ...
Fed judge rips Trump admin’s ‘extremely troubling’ efforts to bring back wrongfully deported migrant from notorious El Salvador prison
US District Judge Paula Xinis has ordered the Justice Department to provide daily updates on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s status.
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The conditions inside the infamous El Salvador prison where deported migrants are held
The U.S. has sent hundreds of people to the notorious mega-prison in El Salvador known as CECOT. William Brangham discussed ...
Trump on possibility of sending American inmates to El Salvador prison: ‘I love that’
President Trump said on Sunday he would “love” to send American inmates to El Salvador’s mega-prison but first needs to check ...
An ‘administrative error’ sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison, ICE says
President Donald Trump's administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a ...
El Salvador says it shares gang intel with the US — and requests specific deportees
El Salvador says it shares intelligence with the United States about gang members wanted by the Central American nation and ...