People need to see that image,” Noem said of the striking photos of her surrounded by rows of tattooed inmates crammed inside their cells at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.

El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) has gained attention after Donald Trump announced that alleged gang members deported from the US would be held there. The maximum-security prison, a key part of President Nayib Bukele’s anti-gang crackdown,

The “administrative error” that caused a Maryland man’s deportation to a notorious prison in El Salvador has prompted backlash in Congress and beyond.

The Trump administration says it has deported 17 more “violent criminals” from the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs to El Salvador, as it doubles down on a policy of removing people from the U.S. to third countries despite criticism over lack of transparency and human rights protections.

Seventeen alleged Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members deported from the US were flown in shackles to an El Salvadoran tarmac Sunday night, where they were met by heavily armed Salvadoran troops.

The Trump administration said Monday it deported another 17 alleged gang members to El Salvador for incarceration in the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center prison. The 10 Salvadoran and seven Venezuelan men were flown to El Salvador on Sunday evening from Guantánamo Bay aboard a military C-17 aircraft.

Secretary Kristi Noem is scheduled to visit various locations in Central America next week, including El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, Fox can exclusively reveal.

The Trump administration acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison.