Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will visit El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center on Wednesday, just over a week after the U.S. transferred hundreds of illegal aliens to the prison, Fox News first reported.
Noem will tour the detention center with Salvadoran Minister of Justice Héctor Gustavo Villatoro and will later meet with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele.
The trip “underscores the importance of our partner countries to help remove violent criminal illegal aliens from the United States,” Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary for Public Affairs, told Fox News Digital on Sunday.
According to the Trump administration, the more than 250 illegal aliens deported to the prison in El Salvador are members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.
“President [Donald] Trump and Secretary Noem have a clear message…
