TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removal from the United States. The tour included two crowded cell blocks, the armory and an isolation unit.

The US administration designated the deportees as terrorists for alleged connections to gangs like the “Tren de Aragua gang,” a criminal gang of Venezuelan origin with reported activity in Latin American countries since 2018. Hours later, Trump confirmed Bukele's video on his TruthSocial account.

As the Trump Administration touts El Salvador's most notorious prison, CECOT, experts say the facility raises several concerns.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is visiting Mexico to cap off a tour to three Latin American nations to discuss immigration, crime and deportation

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem landed in Colombia on Thursday as part of a tour of three Latin American nations to discuss immigration, crime and deportation. Her trip comes amid a souring in relations between the Trump administration and the Colombian government – long the United States' closest ally in the region.

The clip filmed by Donald Trump's homeland security secretary at a brutal El Salvador prison was also slammed as "f**king disgusting."

The DHS boss’s latest cosplaying stunt isn’t just political theater—it’s a defiant provocation amid legal battles over Trump’s deportation efforts.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's temporary block on the Trump administration's deportation of some Venezuelan immigrants under a little-used 18th century law.

Secretary Noem was in the country to tour the facility, where US officials recently sent 238 Venezuelans. In a cell behind her as she spoke were dozens of bare-chested and tattooed Salvadorean members from the MS-13 and the 18th Street gangs.