Following a successful federal raid in Phoenix Tuesday morning, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed that tens of thousands more criminal migrants are likely to be sent to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison.
“You’ll see us continuing to partner with El Salvador. CECOT has the capacity for 40,000 individuals, and [El Salvador President Nayib Bukele] has said they’ll take as many as we want to send,” Noem stated after the DHS operation in which three convicted felon migrants were busted.
According to Noem, “There’s 14,000 there now” and the President of El Salvador “plans to build another prison right next to it,” per the New York Post.
The prison, notorious for its strict conditions and mass incarceration of gang members, was built by Bukele to dismantle El Salvador’s powerful criminal organizations.
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