Overview

• Salvadoran authorities told U.N. human rights investigators that U.S. officials maintain exclusive control over more than 200 Venezuelan men detained at CECOT prison.
• Human rights groups say CECOT is overcrowded and subjects detainees to indefinite confinement without U.S. constitutional protections.
• In March the administration paid El Salvador $6 million under the Alien Enemies Act to house alleged Tren de Aragua gang members at the facility.
• Lawyers for the migrants, including the ACLU and Democracy Forward, are suing to invalidate the detention deal and secure repatriation of wrongfully deported individuals.
• Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly sent to CECOT despite a court order and later returned to the U.S. to face human smuggling charges.