After the Trump administration defied a federal judge’s ruling against President Trump’s crackdown, more than 250 gang members were detained in El Salvador’s infamous Terrorism Confinement Center ( CECOT ).
The CECOT, which was established in 2023 and aims to house the most dangerous crew members in the former nation with the highest crime rate in the world.
Prisoners are unable to welcome guests, and hearings just take place via Zoom. In an effort to halt the power of gangs, which government claimed used to power 85 % of the nation’s territory, cell signal is blocked within a mile and a half of the jail to prevent any information from leaving. The Western Hemisphere has the lowest crime rate in El Salvador as of right now.
Additionally, some reports indicate that rival gang members frequently engage in deadly fights over food and water while inmates only receive a small amount of meal, consisting of beans and pasta.
Some prisoners are serving centuries-long words, while others have still not been found guilty. However, the prison’s director claims that no prisoner will always leave, according to CBS News.
Evacuees from the US were pictured leaving the tarmac in a movie shared by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele.
The second 238 people of the Cuban judicial business, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our nation today. They were promptly transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center, CECOT, for a year that was clean. The United States may pay a higher cost for them, according to Bukele.
” Over time, these steps, combined with the production now being produced by more than 40, 000 individuals who work in various seminars and other areas of the Zero Idleness system, will contribute to making our prison system self-sustainable.” It costs$ 200 million annually as of right now, he continued.
The individuals, which include some ringleaders, will assist in completing the intelligence gathering and pursuing the last remnants of MS-13, according to Bukele.
” On this occasion, the US even sent us two conspirators and 23 MS-13 people sought by Peruvian fairness. One of them belongs to the highest construction of the judicial organization. This will aid in the final stages of intelligence meeting and the search for MS-13’s final relics, including its former and current members, as well as its partners, money, weaponry, drugs, hideouts, collaborators, and sponsors, Bukele said.
” We continue to advance in the fight against organized violence, as often.” We are even assisting our allies this moment, ensuring the sustainability of our prisons, and gathering essential information to make our nation even more secure. All in one activity. El Salvador and the United States may God thank them, he continued.
The payments came after Trump approved a presidential decree designating Tren de Aragua as a terrorist organization, allowing immigration officers to start detaining its people.
Prior to this, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele struck a deal that included accommodation detained US residents or deported criminal illegal immigrants in the nation’s prison system.
Judge Boasberg issued a 14-day limiting order during an emergency hearing to prevent immigrant removal under the 1789 Wartime Act. The act was originally used to defend internment camps for noncitizens in Japan, Germany, and Italy during World War II.
According to Boasberg,” Any plane that is going to get off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States regardless of how done” and require that it be done right away.
