Despite the Trump administration’s claims that dozens of Venezuelan deportees sent to El Salvador’s brutal maximum-security prison were no longer the responsibility of the United States, officials appeared to be willing to use them as a bargaining chip in a failed prisoner exchange.
Donald Trump’s administration was reportedly working on two separate deals to bring home 11 American citizens and legal permanent residents imprisoned in Venezuela in exchange for sending home roughly 250 Venezuelans who were deported from the United States to El Salvador.
