Brian Laird on WNYC.

Now we'll turn to El Salvador, home of the Seacot Prison, where the Trump administration

exported 238 migrants last week.

Most of the migrants were of Venezuelan descent

and were subjected to deportation under the premise of belonging to the transnational gang,

Trende Arawa. Others included Salvadorans, thought to be members of MS-13. In a podcast appearance

on Friday, the Venezuelan interior minister claimed that

none of the Venezuelans imprisoned in El Salvador were members of gangs after viewing the

list of deportees and cross-checking it with the organizational chart of Trend de Aragua.

He also expressed his belief that what's happening in El Salvador is the

establishment of a concentration camp. Anyone who agrees with what the United States and El Salvador

are doing is a barbarian, said that Interior Minister of Venezuela. Families of the migrants

sent to El Salvador also claim their loved ones were not gang-affiliated.

Of course, that's a matter of contention on the two sides, but some recognize their family

members and promotional videos from the Seacot Prison, while others do not know whether their

relatives are still in detention in the United States or in El Salvador. Now, this issue

has sparked what some view as a constitutional crisis in the United States. As a judge

ordered the Trump administration to halt the deportation of the migrants as they had not been

granted hearings in court, the planes were not turned back, as you probably know, and the

administration has not provided answers to some of the questions the judge has been asking.

But some developments in the last few days focus more attention down there. Over the weekend,

President Trump rescinded legal status of an estimated 500,000 migrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Cuba, who entered the country over the last two years.

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