The US has sent hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador's CECOT prison in a controversial deal blasted by lawyers and rights groups
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Inside Trump's $6mn deportee deal with El Salvador mega-prison
April 11, 2025
As part of a deal reached between Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and Trump, the United States is paying the Central American country $6 million to hold the Venezuelan deportees and others it claims are gang members.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has praised Bukele as "not only the strongest security leader in our region, he's also a great friend of the U.S."
Rubio hailed the $6 million deal for El Salvador to house migrants, saying it will hold accused gang members in "very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars."