A Venezuelan migrant deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison was sent to Venezuela despite a court order, prompting a federal judge to consider contempt charges.

Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.

Tears of joy and relief flowed freely Tuesday as Venezuelan Maikel Olivera returned home to his mother's embrace after surviving four months of "real hell" in a Salvadoran prison.When the clamor died down,

TPM’s Josh Kovensky spoke with the wife of Jesús Alberto Ríos Andrade, one of the Venezuelan nationals removed to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act who was reportedly freed Friday. Angie, a Trump supporter, recounts what the last few months have been like and her reaction to the news that the detainees were being released.

Lawyers for a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker who was wrongly deported earlier this year will ask a federal judge in coming days to consider opening criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for “egregious violations” of her orders.

A little after 9 p.m. local time Friday, Ydalys Chirinos-Polanco texted HuffPost a photo of her beaming next to her 25-year-old son, Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. They posed behind a sign that read in Spanish: “Welcome to your country Venezuela. You don’t know how long we’ve waited for this moment. God bless you always.”

Once Angie Gonzalez started to hear rumors that her husband might finally leave CECOT this week, she stopped being

Hunter Biden threatens to invade El Salvador, prompting President Bukele to mock the statement while highlighting ongoing prisoner swap cooperation with the U.S.

Some ex-CECOT detainees from Venezuela could return to US, official says The Trump administration says it will facilitate the return of former detainees of an El Salvador prison to the U.S. from Venezuela, if required by a court.

More than three months after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals “temporarily” blocked contempt of court proceedings against the Trump administration in the original Alien Enemies Act (AEA) case, it showed signs of life for the first time yesterday — but only after the detainees at CECOT were repatriated to Venezuela over the weekend.