On March 15 of last year, the Trump administration deported more than 260 migrants to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, an infamous megaprison known for human rights abuses that is completely cut off from the outside world.

A year later, little is known about the status or whereabouts of the deported Salvadorans.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele had insisted that all of those deported on March 15 be criminals. U.S. officials left it up to the Salvadoran government to make its own determination about its citizens, and they did not specifically ask Bukele’s authorities to detain the men in CECOT, according to a person familiar with U.S. decision-making.

In a response to questions from The Post, DHS said the men deported to CECOT were “human rights abusers, gang members … or suspected terrorists.”

“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,” DHS said in a statement. “If you come to our country illegally, you could end up in CECOT, GITMO, or another third country.”

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