How a secret US deal funnelled deportees into El Salvador’s prison system
Rights groups say the secret pact sent 36 Salvadorans into El Salvador’s prison system, where families still lack information on at least 11 men.
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The documentary opens up one of the most controversial stories of recent years: a political agreement between the United States and El Salvador, centered on deportations, a notorious prison, and the fight against gangs.
Secret US deal sent deportees to El Salvador, where families say they effectively vanished
Washington struck a migration deal with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele within weeks of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, but kept its terms private. More than a year later, families of 11 Salvadoran men deported under the arrangement say their relatives effectively vanished inside El Salvador’s prison system, according to RFI. The men were among 36 Salvadorans deported on military flights in March and April 2025, alongside 252 Venezue…
US deal funneled deportees into El Salvador’s prison system
By RFISeptember 22, 2026Families of 11 Salvadoran men deported from the United States are demanding to know what happened to their relatives after they were sent back to El Salvador under a secret agreement between US President Donald Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart Nayib Bukele. Part of The Deportation Project coordinated by Forbidden Stories, this investigation traces how Trump's deportation drive fed into El Salvador's prison system, in …
In El Salvador, the story of Kevin and Elmer resembles that of so many other migrants expelled from the United States on the margins of any legal procedure. The RFI found their sisters, who never cease to fight to find them. Studio FMM Article produced in the framework of an investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories, entitled "The Deportation Project", in which RFI participates, in addition to 23 other communication vehicles. Angelica Pérez…
How a secret US deal funnelled deportees into El Salvador’s prison system
Families of 11 Salvadoran men deported from the United States are demanding to know what happened to their relatives after they were sent back to El Salvador under a secret agreement between US President Donald Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart Nayib Bukele. Part of The Deportation Project coordinated by Forbidden Stories, this investigation traces how Trump's deportation drive fed into El Salvador's prison system, in a case rights groups say…
In 2025, US President Trump's government transferred criminal foreigners to El Salvador. Research shows that in this way, gang bosses were also removed from US justice.
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