Three of the Venezuelans who were held in El Salvador's CECOT prison after bring deported from the U.S. say they were beaten and denied access to lawyers.

A Venezuelan man is taking legal steps against the US government, saying he was wrongly deported and detained in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, 27, filed an administrative claim Thursday with the Department of Homeland Security,

U.S. District Judge Boasberg weighs new allegations in the Trump administration's immigration case after blocking the administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans.

The exuberant homecoming was in stark contrast to the welcome he received in March at El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, where he says he and over 200 other Venezuelan nationals, accused by the Trump administration of being members of the gang Tren de Aragua, were violently ushered into the facility.

Francisco Javier Casique, one of 252 Venezuelans quietly deported to the mega prison, told Newsweek about their four-month detention in El Salvador.

The government of El Salvador told the United Nations that more than 100 Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration to its maximum-security prison, CECOT, in March remain under the sole custody of the U.S. government — appearing to undercut ...

“I’ve talked to the highest level at ICE,” U.S. border czar Tom Homan said in April, “and they’ve reassured me several times: Everyone that was removed under the Alien Enemies Act was a gang member and a terrorist.”