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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Santana

Homeland Security Secretary Noem visits the El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held

APTOPIX El Salvador Deportees - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday will visit the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been held since their removal from the U.S.

Noem's trip to the prison — where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside — comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the “worst of the worst.”

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