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Trump news at a glance: thinktank finds legal immigrants stripped of protections and sent to El Salvador prison

A demonstrator calls for the release of migrants imprisoned in the Centre for Terrorism Confinement (Cecot) prison in El Salvador
A demonstrator calls for the release of migrants imprisoned in the Centre for Terrorism Confinement (Cecot) prison in El Salvador. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images

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

Published by the libertarian thinktank on Monday, the report 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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