37 h. ago Tigers, swimming pools, a nightclub: The gang drawing Trump's ire started in a Venezuelan prison

Tocorón once had it all

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5 d. ago Kristi Noem issues immigration warning in front of El Salvador mega

Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem filmed a social media video inside a mega-prison in El Salvador holding Venezuelan people deported by the United States as she visited the facility on Wednesday, 26 March.

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7 d. ago Venezuelan migrants deported by the US ended up in a Salvadoran prison. This is their legal status

The U.S. government used an 18th-century wartime law to deport nearly 300 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, where they were immediately transferred to the country’s maximum-security gang prison

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1 week ago ‘He is innocent’: families of deported Venezuelans rebuke Trump claims

US president has painted Venezuelan migrants deported to notorious El Salvador prison as ‘heinous monsters’ Donald Trump’s White House has described the Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador as “heinous monsters” and terrorists who “rape, maim and murder for sport”.But relatives of Francisco Javier García Casique, a 24-year-old from the city of Maracay, say he was a hairdresser, not a crook. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘He is innocent’: family of deported Venezuelan rebukes Trump claims

Brother of Francisco Javier García Casique spotted him in a video showing scores of Venezuelan prisoners being taken to notorious El Salvador prisonDonald Trump’s White House has described the Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador as “heinous monsters” and terrorists who “rape, maim and murder for sport”.But relatives of Francisco Javier García Casique, a 24-year-old from the city of Maracay, say he was a hairdresser, not a crook. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump waging ‘sickening’ psychological war, deported Venezuelan’s lawyer says

One detained man’s lawyer says he is gay artist who had fled persecution in his home country, not a gang memberA lawyer for one of the Venezuelan immigrants sent from the US to a notorious mega prison in El Salvador has accused the Trump administration of waging a “sickening” campaign of psychological warfare against asylum seekers and migrants.“In my 15 years of representing people in removal proceedings in the United States, this is the most shocking thing that I’ve ever seen happen to one of our clients,” said Lindsay Toczylowski, a California-based lawyer for the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) group. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Trump administration accused him of being a gang member and deported him. His family says it’s all made up

Venezuelan barber Francisco Javier Garcia Casique sent to El Salvador mega-prison but has no ties to notorious Tren de Aragua criminal organization, his mother and brother insist

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2 w. ago It started in a Venezuelan prison. Now US politics focus on the Tren de Aragua gang

It’s a local threat to some and a full-on invasion to President Donald Trump

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2 w. ago What will happen to Venezuelan 'gangsters' deported by Trump to the 'world's worst' jail: Inside brutal El Salvador mega

The Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo prison has become a symbol of El Salvador's harsh crackdown on gang violence since it opened

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2 w. ago Trump twists the knife after 'monsters' deported from the US arrive at notorious El Salvador prison

President Donald Trump celebrated as a plane carrying suspected members of a notorious Venezuelan gang touched down at a prison in El Salvador on Sunday.

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