Julie Turkewitz

Yes.

I mean, the Maduro government definitely has a hand in securing these men's freedom, but

It's hard to imagine that U.S.

officials did not have some idea that something like this was going to happen inside the Salvadoran prison.

Just two years before these men were sent there, the U.S.

government released its own report.

It's a public report saying that there was strong reason to believe that torture was happening inside the Salvadoran prison system.

They knew.

And I mean, one of the questions I have is why there has not been more outrage about what these men experienced inside this prison.

Why we have not seen the same kind of outrage that we saw after 9-11.

Yeah.

It's very interesting that the Trump administration and the Bukele administration didn't really try and hide any of this.

Donald Trump came into the White House promising to address the immigration problem at the border, in the country in general.

And he promised to deter migration.

And that is what he has done.

I mean, the numbers at the U.S.

border are way down.

And what I was thinking about a lot as I was reporting this story is how far, basically, are Americans willing to go for migration deterrence?

And, you know, when we went to the Trump administration with our findings, they did not deny any of the testimony.

Instead, a spokeswoman said to us that we should be focusing our reporting elsewhere, specifically on children who had been killed by, quote, vicious illegal aliens.