new video loaded: Who Are the Venezuelan Deportees Sent to El Salvador?

By Julie Turkewitz, Christina Thornell, David Jouppi, Rebecca Suner and James Surdam•April 15, 2025

Who are the 238 Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration without due process to El Salvador’s maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center? Julie Turkewitz, a bureau chief for The New York Times, explains what her team’s investigation reveals about the deportees, their criminal records and how they were selected for deportation.

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