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Bukele Challenges Clinton With Offer to Release All Salvadoran Inmates After CECOT Critique

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to explain within two weeks how it will provide due process to Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador.

Overview

  • Hillary Clinton shared a PBS Frontline short about three Venezuelan men who say they were wrongly labeled as Tren de Aragua members and deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison.
  • Nayib Bukele responded by offering to release the entire prison population to any country willing to take every inmate, including gang leaders and those described as political prisoners.
  • He argued the mass release would let journalists and NGOs test claims of systemic abuse by interviewing thousands of former inmates.
  • CECOT is El Salvador’s maximum‑security facility that holds gang members and certain migrants deported from the United States under cooperation with President Donald Trump after Venezuela declined repatriation.
  • A U.S. federal judge ordered due process for a class of Venezuelans deported in March and gave the administration two weeks to detail its compliance plan.