US Offered El Salvador $4.7M to Take Venezuelans In

The Trump administration offered El Salvador $4.7 million earlier this year to detain deported Venezuelan migrants, but stipulated that the funds could not be used in ways that conflicted with President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, diversity, or abortion, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

A newly disclosed copy of the March agreement obtained by the outlet was released late Monday as part of a court battle over the administration’s plan to transfer people arrested in the U.S. to El Salvador’s prisons, including the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT.

The deportation of roughly 250 Venezuelan illegal immigrants from the U.S. to El Salvador made national headlines, with the administration accusing many of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang.

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