Trump Deportations: Most Migrants Sent to El Salvador Lacked US Criminal Record - Bloomberg


A recent deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador by the Trump administration contradicts claims that those deported were primarily dangerous criminals.
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Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as β€œthe worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.

The reality is that of 238 migrants β€” mostly Venezuelan β€” that officials accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang and expelled to the Central American country in mid-March, just a small fraction had ever been charged with serious crimes in the US.

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