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What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there

  • The Biden administration criticized Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's governing style, while the Trump administration praised him for his tough stance on crime, including jailing alleged gang members, which reduced the homicide rate.
  • Bukele has imprisoned over 1% of El Salvador's population, including children, and has been accused of human rights abuses, such as arbitrary arrests and suspending civil rights.
  • Trump's administration offered to transfer U.S. Immigrants to El Salvador's mega-prison, with Bukele stating, 'We are willing to take in only convicted criminals into our mega-prison in exchange for a fee.'
  • A former City College professor, Jorge Alberto Ramos, was sentenced to eight years for sexually abusing three women from El Salvador after smuggling them to the U.S., with prosecutors stating he was 'a serial sexual abuser who smuggled three vulnerable young women into the United States to use them for his own sexual gratification.
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BBC News broke the news in United Kingdom on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.
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