El Salvador president vows to double size of prison holding US deportees
Source: The Independent
El Salvador president vows to double size of prison holding US deportees
Donald Trump urged that the prison, which can hold up to 40,000 inmates, be expanded after he threatened to send American citizens who have broken the law
Kelly Rissman
in New York
Thursday 17 April 2025 04:39 BST
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele intends to double the size of the notorious mega-prison that’s currently holding U.S. deportees, according to a new report.
Bukele told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last month that he plans to build out the El Salvador prison known as CECOT, which has been attacked by human rights groups as a “tropical gulag” rife with abuses, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The prison, which can house up to 40,000 inmates, in recent weeks began holding hundreds of immigrants that the Trump administration alleges are members of a Venezuelan gang, a Salvadoran father transported there in error who courts have ordered be returned to the U.S., and others as the Trump administration cracks down on its deportation operation in defiance of U.S. court orders, according to judges.
“We have no plans to bring them back, this is a long-term solution,” Noem told the Journal after her visit with Bukele in March. “He has plans to double the size. He has 80-plus acres there that he’s going to continue to build on.”
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/el-salvador-president-prison-trump-b2734754.html
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