Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on March 16 that the Trump administration had sent more than 250 Venezuelans accused of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang to a prison in El Salvador amid an active federal court ruling ordering the deportation flights to cease.
Rubio said El Salvador has agreed to hold the gang members “in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars,” in a statement posted on the social platform X.
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador posted a video to X on Sunday showing agents leading men in handcuffs off a plane at night and into a prison. Prison officials are also shown shaving the prisoners’ heads….