US-El Salvador Prison Agreement Included Anti-DEI, Asylum Terms

Sept. 9, 2025, 3:38 PM UTC

The Trump administration offered $4.7 million to El Salvador to imprison deported Venezuelan migrants earlier this year, but restricted the money from being used in ways that conflict with President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, diversity and abortion, according to a newly disclosed copy of the March agreement.

The document was released late Monday as part of a court fight over the administration’s efforts to send people arrested in the US to El Salvador’s prison facilities, including Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, known as CECOT, a large prison infamous for its dangerous and unsanitary conditions.

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