House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer rejected a request from Democrats to visit El Salvador’s notorious maximum security prison, where hundreds deported from the U.S. by the Trump administration are being held. In a letter released Friday, Comer ridiculed a...
By now, the images of Donald Trump’s March 15th flights to El Salvador are all too familiar: shackled Venezuelans being off-loaded from U.S. planes at the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or cecot, and cowering as their heads are forcibly shaved by other...
Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Friday that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported by the Trump administration, reported having been traumatized inside a maximum-security prison in El Salvador before being transferred to another detention...
For José Pérez, this week’s meeting of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele with President Donald Trump at the White House was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. The 35-year-old Everett resident, who has lived in the United States for ten years with...
Kilmar Ábrego García, the Salvadoran migrant who was expelled from the United States despite having legal status in the country, has been transferred to another prison in El Salvador after spending several weeks detained in the maximum-security prison known as CECOT....
Senator Chris Van Hollen, who returned to the United States this Friday after meeting with Kilmar Ábrego García in El Salvador, said the “illegal abduction” of the Maryland man erroneously deported to the Central American nation must end. “It’s good to be home. Now we...
