#elsalvador / Page 3

The Trump administration deported Garcia to his home country of El Salvador last year, despite a protective order against doing so.

The broadcaster spent time inside the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) in El Salvador, where suspected gang members sit in metal bunks stacked four beds high in concrete cells.

Standing a few feet away from the cage holding 100 perpetrators of savagery - one of 32 mass cells that line Module 8 in the Terrorism Confinement Centre - is a deeply unnerving experience.

TV presenter Richard Madeley has visited the world's toughest prison in El Salvador where 3,000 shaven-headed inmates are crammed behind floor-to-ceiling bars with nothing to do.

Official figures show that the number of people deported to El Salvador from the United States nearly have doubled in the first months of 2026.

FBI Director Kash Patel and Sen. Chris Van Hollen sparred during a tense Senate hearing after Van Hollen raised allegations from The Atlantic and Patel fired back over the senator's controversial 2025 El Salvador trip.

Kash Patel and Sen. Chris Van Hollen clashed in a Senate hearing, trading allegations of misconduct and accusations about an El Salvador visit.