El Salvador's top Catholic leader on Sunday urged President Nayib Bukele not to turn the country into a Guantanamo-style U.S. prison, after Bukele made a deal with Washington to house deported migrants from the United States in a notorious jail. Last week, CBS News obtained a government memo showing the Trump administration created broad rules outlining which migrants can be held at Guantanamo Bay, allowing officials to send non-criminal detainees there despite a vow to hold "the worst" offenders at the naval base. One of the migrants being held in El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a 29-year-old Salvadoran national who lived in Maryland and is married to a U.S. citizen — was sent last month to its notorious CECOT prison, although the administration later admitted in court that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly among those deported.
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Published at: 2025-04-20 22:11:20
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