The Secretary of National Security of the United States, Kristi Noemhas arrived at El Salvador to visit the maximum security prison where more than 200 immigrants expelled on a flight by US authorities are detained, and to meet with the president, Nayib Bukele. From the prison, he has sent a clear message: «Do not vastly avenge our country. You will be expelled and processed ».
«Know that This center is one of the tools we will use If you commit crimes against the American people, ”he added in his visit, whose objective is also to agree with Bukele the increase in immigrants expulsions from the United States and their imprisonment in the Central American country.
After his arrival at Salvadoran airport, Noem was transferred to Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the megacárcel symbol of the so -called war against gangs that the Bukele government promotes under an exception regime. Located in an isolated and arid zone in the town of Tecoluca, more than 75 kilometers from the capital, the official has made a tour accompanied by the Salvadoran Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro.
The Secretary of Security said Wednesday, in an X message, which will be seeing “firsthand” the detention center “where they are housed The worst of the worst criminals»On the second visit of a senior Trump government official to meet Bukele. The first was the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, at the beginning of last February.
On this visit, the Salvadoran president initially offered his country’s prisons to imprison Criminals convicted and its use for irregular immigrants was not handled.
More than 200 Venezuelans
On March 16, Trump’s government sent More than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador under the law of foreign enemies of 1798 despite a court order that prohibited it and were locked to a maximum security prison, accused of belonging to the Criminal Band of Aragua. However, US media reports suggest that at least 101 were arrested in migratory processes.
«The deportations of the train of Aragua to the Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) of El Salvador sent to the world the message that The United States is no longer a safe shelter For violent criminals. I will be in El Salvador to see first hand the detention center where the worst criminals are housed, ”Noem has published in X.
In addition, he added that he hoped to meet Bukele «to discuss How to increase the number of deportation flights and expulsions of violent criminals from the US ».
So far, the Salvadoran government has not explained under what regulations He has imprisoned these people in the CECOT, given that the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly has not approved any agreement that allows it and does not have arrest warrants or criminal proceedings in the Central American country.
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