First on FOX: Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem is scheduled to visit several Central America spots next week.
On Sunday, DHS civil servant Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital that Noem's trip “emphasises the importance of partner countries in eliminating violent, illegal aliens from the United States.”
“President Trump and Secretary Noem have a clear message to criminal foreigners considering illegally entering the United States, so don't think about that either,” McLaughlin said. “If you come to our country and break the law, we will corner you and lock you up.”
Noem's visit begins on March 26th with a stop at the Terrorist Confinement Centre and tours with Justice Minister Salvadra Hector Gustavoviratro. Trump administration officials will meet with President Naive Bukere later that day.
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Homeland Security Secretary Christi Noem is scheduled to visit the Terrorist Confinement Centre in El Salvador next week. (via getty images/nayibbakele
On March 27th, Noem will visit Colombia to meet President Gustavopetro and a specialized group of Colombian National Police (CNP) that aims to combat organized crime. The former South Dakota governor concludes his trip in Mexico on March 28th, where he will be convened with Mexican President Claudia Sinbaum.
The visit comes a week after El Salvador released gritty footage of hundreds of illegal aliens being deported and rolled up to prison last weekend. The video shows members of the suspect's gang have their heads in hand as massive armed Salvador authorities surrounded them and transported them one by one to the facility.
A senior Trump administration official confirmed to Fox News that a total of 261 illegal aliens were deported to El Salvador on March 15th. Most of them were deported through the alien enemy laws of 1798.
101 of the immigrants were removed via Title 8, with 21 others being members of Salvador's MS-13 gang, officials added. The two were the masterminds of the MS-13, and were “special cases” in El Salvador.
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In this photo provided by the El Salvador Presidential Press Bureau, the prison guards are said to be Venezuelan gang members, a transfer from the United States, which is said to be members of the Venezuelan gang on Sunday, March 16th. (President's Press Office via the AP)
The rap sheets of those deleted included aggravated attacks, robbery, inducements, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse and aggravated assault by police officers.
Trump's ally Buquel wrote that deportation flights will help Salvador authorities “complete intelligence gatherings and chase after the last wreckage of the MS-13.
“As always, we continue to fight organized crime,” he added. “But this time we can also gain vital intelligence to support our allies, to independently support our prison system and to make our country even safer, all in a single action.
In a post on True Society on March 16, President Donald Trump wrote that the US will “not forget” Buquel's partnership, thanking his leaders, “I am grateful for the understanding of this horrifying situation and allowed it to happen to the United States for the leadership of an incompetent Democrat.”
File – MegaPrison, known as the Centre for Counter-Terrorism Countermeasures (CECOT) in Tecolca, El Salvador, March 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
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“These are monsters sent to our country by the bent Joe Biden and the radical left Democrats,” Trump wrote. “What a dare!”
