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Coral Murphy Marcos

At least 50 migrants sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally, report finds

crowd of people hold up signs in protest
Family members of migrants imprisoned in El Salvador protest outside the United Nations building, in Caracas, Venezuela, on 22 April. Photograph: Leonardo Fernández Viloria/Reuters

At least 50 Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador had entered the United States legally, according to a review by the Cato Institute.

The report, published by the libertarian thinktank on Monday, analyzed the available immigration data for only a portion of the men who were deported to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), and focuses on the cases where records could be found.

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