A North Texas lawmaker asked Gov. Greg Abbott to look into sending undocumented migrants incarcerated in the state to a massive prison in El Salvador, similar to the Trump administration’s decision to send hundreds of people they suspect of being gang members to the mega prison.

People need to see that image,” Noem said of the striking photos of her surrounded by rows of tattooed inmates crammed inside their cells at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.

Families of Venezuelan deportees held in El Salvador’s infamous Cecot prison can petition the Salvadoran government for their release – but the fruitfulness of that process is an open question in a country accused of arbitrary detention by rights groups and even the US State Department.

Hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported to El Salvador from the United States in recent days could face long or indefinite detention in a prison system rife with human rights abuses, according to attorneys and experts on the region. Their families and ...