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The Independent reports:
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.
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“Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.”
– Trump tells El Salvador’s President Bukele to build more prisons in his country—suggesting he plans to send American citizens there. (via @atrupar)pic.twitter.com/GZz1P0LLJS
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) April 14, 2025
NEW: El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele plans to double the size of the mass prison where his government is holding U.S. deportees.
He told Secretary Kristi Noem he “has 80-plus acres there that he’s going to continue to build on.”
“This is a long-term solution,” Noem said. pic.twitter.com/Fo7XGYh8yt
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) April 16, 2025