Rights groups sue to free Venezuelans deported from the US and held in El Salvador
In March, the U.S. government deported more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants alleged to have ties to the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador, paying the Salvadoran government to imprison them.
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