Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited one of the Western Hemisphere's most brutal prisons yesterday for a typical reason: to create some social media content.
Noem arrived yesterday at El Salvador's Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), a megaprison that human rights groups say is overcrowded and deadly, where no one ever leaves alive. Earlier this month, the Trump administration summarily deported over 150 alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gang, and sent them to CECOT under an agreement with El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele.
Noem posted a video to X of her standing in front of a cell of tattooed, grim-faced CECOT inmates, where she warned that the prison was one possible destination for those who enter the U.S. illegally.
