The homeland security secretary also plans to meet with El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele to discuss how to increase the number of deportation flights.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has kicked off her three-day trip to El Salvador, Mexico, and Colombia to tour the prisons that are holding Venezuelan illegal immigrants, including alleged gang members, recently deported by the United States.
Noem landed in Comalapa, El Salvador, on Wednesday afternoon to take an inside look at the city’s maximum-security prison.
Noem shared a video on X from inside the Terrorism Confinement Center.
“First of all, do not come to our country illegally,” she said in the video while jailed inmates watched behind her. “You will be removed and you will be prosecuted. But know, that this facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people.”
The facility is home to the “worst-of-the-worst criminals,” Noem wrote in a separate post. Inmates at the prison are packed into cells and never allowed outside.
“The deportations of Tren De Aragua to the El Salvadorian Terrorist Confinement Center sent a message to the world that…
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