Santa Ana of El Salvador - It is well known that Kilmar Abrego Garcia's sprawling prison is in stark contrast to the Super Max Super Prison he was deported for the first time.
Rather than tattooing gang members in bright, crowded cells, wear yellow T-shirts in Santa Ana’s Centro Industrial Prison and move more or less freely. Some people spend most of their time raising cows and growing vegetables outdoors. Others work in factories that make uniforms for public schools or tables.
The government calls these "trusted prisoners" said: They have shown good behavior and are in the final years of the verdict. The prison explicitly excludes anyone accused of being a gang.
“We only accommodate the general population,” said Samuel Diaz, director and warden of the prison. “Gang members work here.”
NBC News received Santa Ana's Centro Industrial on Monday in a well-arranged tour. Officials did not provide access to Abrego Garcia, and they would not answer questions about his location, his conditions of detention or any other aspect of the case. But they facilitated interviews with other inmates, who described the conditions in the prison as “perfect” and “excellent.”
The Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to "promote" the return of Abrego Garcia, the Justice Department has recognized that the Justice Department should not be sent to his hometown of El Salvador prison, banning such action due to an immigration judge's 2019 order.
For the human rights advocates in El Salvador and the United States, details of the transfer of Abrego Garcia - from the terrorist incarceration center or the super Max prison designed specifically for gang members to a low-security prison where gang members are excluded from that gang members - paradoxically, the central claim put forward by two governments: Abrego Garcia is a dangerous terrorist member, a dangerous member of MSS-13 and a dangerous member of the 13th and a dangerous member of the 13th. (His wife and lawyers deny the allegations.)
The exact whereabouts and conditions of Abrego Garcia remain unknown. Since deportation, Abrego Garcia has not allowed contact with family members or lawyers. Abrego Garcia said in an April 17 meeting with Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen, the only time since his deportation, that he had moved from CECOT to another facility. The U.S. Department of Justice filed April 20 in federal court later confirmed that the facility is the central industry in Santa Ana. No updates have since been made.
From this perspective, Gabriela Santos, director of the School of Human Rights at the University of Central America in San Salvador, said Abrego Garcia transferred Cecot from Cecot.
"Why did he move?" Santos said. "And all the other immigrants are here - are they in Secot or are they put in a different prison in El Salvador?"
Santos said there is no obvious legal basis for the consent of El Salvador President Naibburi and Trump.
"From a legal perspective, there is no reason (Abrego Garcia) to come here," Santos said, adding that since Bucker has merged the powers of all branches of the government, there is no viable way to challenge the policy.
"There is no rule of law here in El Salvador. The principle of legitimacy is not respected," she said.
Like Abrego Garcia and others, the Trump administration deported him directly to Cecot, and all prisoners in the El Salvador prison system were unable to contact lawyers, loved ones and others. The policy is the result of a “state of exception” declared by Buckley after a particularly cruel wave of gang violence, in which he suspended many constitutional protections to quickly imprison thousands of unjustified procedures.
According to the El Salvador Human Rights Organization, about 85,000 people are imprisoned in the exception. Many people have undergone a large-scale trial of one hundred or hundreds of defendants, but cannot obtain lawyers. Advocates document stories of many people that have no indefinite affiliation with gangs that are not relevant to gangs and have little appeal to appeal.
In addition, rights groups in El Salvador and abroad have severely criticized the country's prison conditions, accusing systematic torture, malnutrition and other abuses. Since the exception was declared, the statutory NGO Socorro Juriídico Humanitario has recorded 370 deaths in the El Salvador prison, which could be a case.
"For three years, we have lost all human rights and constitutional guarantees in El Salvador," said Ingrid Escobar, the group's attorney.
Bucker admitted that in exceptional cases some innocent people were arrested.
"Obviously, our actions are not perfect, and there are no innocent people who hurt anyone innocent, and some innocent people have been arrested, just like they are in France, Germany, Japan and every country in the world," Buckley said in November. "We are freeing them - we have freed 8,000 people and we will free 100% of the innocent people."
The Burker government said the detention of prisoners Incommunicado is a necessary measure to undermine gang control of the El Salvador prison, which involves regular organizing murders, ransomware and other criminal activities.
Since the exception, public safety in El Salvador has improved dramatically. Many people interviewed on San Salvador Street said they can now move around the city and engage in their own business as they please without fear of harassment, blackmail or violence. These improvements make Buckley one of the most popular heads of state in the world.
But human rights advocates say the improvements are a heavy price to pay for El Salvador’s democracy – and Berkle’s popularity is not a reason for authoritarianism.
“Popularity can’t make him do anything he wants,” Santos said. “History tells us that just because someone is popular doesn’t mean he’s doing the right thing.”