What we know about the El Salvador ‘mega prison’ where Trump is sending alleged Venezuelan gang members
El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of ...
Trump administration deports hundreds under sweeping wartime authority despite judge’s pause
The Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrants affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, using a ...
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White House denies defying judge’s order to halt the deportation of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador
The judge blocked the application of an 18th-century law that Trump invoked to deport detainees linked to the Tren de Aragua ...
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Why Trump keeps talking about an obscure Venezuelan prison gang
Unlike in the cases of other transnational criminal groups — like Mexico’s drug cartels or MS-13, the Salvadoran gang born in Los ... Even the tattoos and other symbols used to try to identify ...
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Joburg’s great escape: how global prisons stack up in the game of incarceration
In a poignant reminder of the lengths individuals will go to in order to avoid imprisonment, a video recently went viral showing a man escaping police custody from a Johannesburg court. Arrested ...
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‘Give us back our sons’: A look at the Venezuelan migrants Trump sent to Guantanamo
Public safety agencies in the U.S. have linked some of these symbols ... gang, however, are not as clear cut as those of other criminal organizations, like El Salvador’s MS-13.