Homeland Security Secretary Noem Visits The El Salvador Prison Where Deported Venezuelans Are Held

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday will visit the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been held since their removal from the U.S.

Noem's trip to the prison - where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside - comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the "worst of the worst."

Since taking office, Noem has often been front and center in efforts to highlight the immigration crackdown. She took part in immigration enforcement operations, rode horses with Border Patrol agents and was the face of a television campaign warning people in the country illegally to self-deport.

Noem's Wednesday visit is part of a three-day trip. She'll also travel to Colombia and Mexico.

In El Salvador, she'll visit the prison, called the Terrorism Confinement Center, and meet with President Nayib Bukele, according to a Homeland Security statement.