Kristi Noem visits high-security El Salvadoran | Political News

Kristi Noem visited the high-security El Salvadoran jail the place Venezuelans the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removing from the U.S.

The U.S. Homeland Security secretary’s grand tour of the power included strolling by two crowded cell blocks, the jail’s armory and an isolation unit, all whereas photographers adopted her round for picture alternatives.

Inmates within the jail are packed into cells and by no means allowed outdoors. Noem’s go to to it comes because the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes because the “worst of the worst.”

But, the administration faces pushback in federal court docket. It’s argued that sending the Venezuelans to El Salvador is justified, however activists are saying officers merely despatched the people to a jail crammed with human rights abuses after presenting little to no proof they had been members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang — with Trump designated as a terrorist group.

Noem dodged questions by the press concerning the Venezuelan deportees, failing to say whether or not the inmates could be held there indefinitely and whether or not or not the Venezuelans may ever be introduced back to the U.S. ought to a court docket order the administration to take action.

“We’re going to let the courts play out,” she advised reporters following the go to.