In rural Tennessee, 16 middle schoolers waiting for cheerleading practice to start made a TikTok video seeming to role play a school shooting. The sheriff's office charged every single one with a crime. www.propublica.org/article/soci...

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For months, we had been talking with Carmen, Lina and Doris about the void their sons' detention in #ElSalvador had left. They wondered whether they were eating, if they were cold. Were they alive? Following the men's release, these families sat with us to talk about what they lived through.

We published their stories as part of an effort to understand - when neither the U.S. nor Salvadoran governments had released the names of the men sent to CECOT - who these men were, and why they had been sent to the infamous prison. projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

What @perla-trevizo.bsky.social , @micarosenberg.bsky.social , @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social , and a group of Venezuelan journalists from @cazadoresdefakenews.info and Alianza Rebelde Investiga uncovered was chilling:

Watch three of the more than 230 men the Trump administration sent to #ElSalvador talk about the moment they arrived at #CECOT, how they say the guards tortured them and beat them daily: youtu.be/6KZRtCE2UcI from ‪@g-dvalle.bsky.social‬ and the entire team @propublica.org‬ and in Venezuela.

The terror began immediately. Salvadoran guards beat them with their fists, boots and batons, shot them with rubber pellets, and forced them to lick other men's backs. What happened when we sent 230+ Venezuelans to a prison known for human rights abuses. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

My colleagues @perla-trevizo.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social at @propublica.org (a “liberal rag hellbent on defending violent criminal illegal aliens”) with another haunting installment of their series on men deported to CECOT: www.propublica.org/article/vene...

NEW: If you want to know what happened to the men Trump sent to a Salvadoran prison, we have their accounts. From an amazing @propublica.org team that included @perla-trevizo.bsky.social, @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social, @micarosenberg.bsky.social and so many others. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

This is the result of a big team of journalists and editors in the US and Venezuela @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @perla-trevizo.bsky.social Ronna Rísquez, Adrián González, Adriana Núñez Moros, Carlos Centeno, Gabriel Sandoval, Jeff Ernsthausen, Ruth Talbot, Cengiz Yar, Zisiga Mukulu and more 9/

If you have any information about these men. You can help us continue our reporting here. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

In March the Trump administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, calling the men “some of the most violent savages on the face of the Earth.” @propublica.org went looking for the truth to their stories — one by one.

Please take spent some time with this project that @perla-trevizo.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and so many other have been tirelessly working on for the past four months. It's important on so many levels.

Reporting by @perla-trevizo.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social and me Also available in español, aquí: www.propublica.org/article/vene...

For months we've written about the Venezuelans the #Trump administration sent to #CECOT. Now, they get to tell their own stories, how the U.S. ended up labeling them terrorists and their torture in #ElSalvador via @propublica @texastribune.org @cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga.

A DHS spokesperson defended the deportations: “They may not have criminal records in the U.S., beyond breaking our laws to enter the country illegally, but many of these illegal aliens are far from innocent.” Read for yourself what we found out. 9/: www.propublica.org/article/vene...

The Trump administration has said all those sent to El Salvador were members of a feared Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and invoked a law from the 1700s to interrupt their cases and deport them but has yet to release evidence to support those claims against each man. 8/

We corroborated those findings working with Venezuelan colleagues Ronna Risquez from Alianza Rebelde Investiga and Adrián González, Cazadores de Fake News and more reporters to interview relatives and lawyers of more than 100 deportees and gathered hundreds of pages of court and police documents 7/

Previously we reported, based on internal government data we obtained, that the Trump administration knew the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan deportees imprisoned in El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes 6/

These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules. We found that more than 50 of the Venezuelan deportees had used a government app when they crossed the border. Others had turned themselves in to border agents. 5/

My colleague @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social was in court the day one man, Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra, was supposed to make his final asylum case before a judge, but he wasn’t there. He had been whisked away days earlier to El Salvador 3/

A 🧵/ More than 60 of the men imprisoned in El Salvador had pending asylum claims and some were just days away from final hearings, my colleague @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social found by examining immigration court data and internal government records we obtained 2/

Today we published our 2nd story in an investigation into the backgrounds of 230+ Venezuelan men Trump deported to El Salvador. We did a first ever case-by-case analysis and found half were in the middle of their immigration cases, including dozens seeking asylum. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

Reporting by me, @perla-trevizo.bsky.social @micarosenberg.bsky.social @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and our Venezuelan partners at Cazadores de Fake News and Alianza Rebelde Investiga

More than 100 men had been ordered deported but believed they would be sent back to Venezuela. My colleague @perla-trevizo.bsky.social obtained the video of one man, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas, who showed documents he said proved the U.S. promised to send him home. Then, he disappeared 4/

Aquí en español: www.propublica.org/article/vene...

By and large, the Venezuelan men our government disappeared to a Salvadoran prison had been playing by the rules of the country’s immigration system. Then, the Trump administration changed the rules. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

1/ We got government data showing that the Trump administration knew the majority of Venezuelan men it sent to a prison in El Salvador had no criminal record in the U.S. - and that only a handful had been convicted of violent crimes - before calling them all terrorists and deporting them.

First trial of immigrant accused of trespassing on Texas border military zone ends in acquittal www.texastribune.org/2025/06/05/t... via @texastribune.org

NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The government's own data indicates they knew their assertions that all these men were the 'worst of the worst' was untrue. Great reporting by a team at @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

El gobierno de Trump sabía que la mayoría de los venezolanos enviados a El Salvador no tenía condena por crímenes en EEUU Registros del DHS revelan que más de la mitad de los 238 deportados, solo son infractores migratorios. No tenían prontuario criminal en EEUU www.cazadores.info/gobierno-tru...

NEW: Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees to El Salvador were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

Trump officials maintain that the administration is ensuring children are not abused or trafficked, but current/former agency employees, lawyers and advocates told @lomikriel.bsky.social & @micarosenberg.bsky.social that the resettlement agency is drifting from its humanitarian mandate.

Conversations around the border revolve around immigration & security, but if you ask its residents, many say their biggest needs aren't too different from other communities. Here's the story of 2 towns, one where some still lack drinking water and another one with no hospital. via @propublica.org