The United States is paying El Salvador $6 million to take in illegal immigrants tied to Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, the White House said Monday.
The United States paid El Salvador $6 million to take in Venezuelan illegal immigrants slated to be deported to their home countries, the White House said Monday.
The Trump administration sent at least 238 members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang living illegally in the U.S. to El Salvador around the same time a federal judge moved to block deportations of illegal immigrants under a wartime law involved by President Donald Trump.
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt detailed the cost to U.S. taxpayers.
“It was approximately $6 million, to El Salvador, for the detention of these foreign terrorists”, she told reporters.
