General Discussion

By Mary Beth Sheridan and Maria Sacchetti

Kristi L. Noem, the U.S. homeland security secretary, threatened Wednesday to send more immigrants from the United States to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador that has become a black hole for Venezuelans spirited out of the United States with no judicial hearing.

The Trump administration is locked in a court battle over whether it acted improperly in expelling the Venezuelans, who are accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang. A U.S. judge is investigating whether the government defied his order on March 15 to stop their transfer. The Trump administration maintains the ruling didn’t apply to the expulsion.

Despite the legal standoff, Noem said after a visit to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, that the administration was prepared to send more migrants there ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/26/el-salvador-noem-cecot-venezuelans/