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El Salvador Becoming 'Black Hole' For US Deportees, Critics Fear

US President Donald Trump has encouraged Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to build more jails (Credit: AFP)

Rights groups are increasingly worried that El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison is becoming a "black hole" for the United States to rid itself of expelled migrants or other unwanted people with no legal consequences.

A US senator who traveled to the Central American country Wednesday to try and retrieve a man wrongly deported and locked up there was sent away without even being able to speak to him.

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