{"id":6603,"date":"2025-03-18T14:11:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2025-03-18T14:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:11:54","slug":"us-prepares-to-deport-about-300-alleged-gang-members-to-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2025\/03\/18\/us-prepares-to-deport-about-300-alleged-gang-members-to-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"US prepares to deport about 300 alleged gang members to El Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to article: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-deportations-salvador-tren-aragua-64e72142a171ea57c869c3b35eeecce7\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-deportations-salvador-tren-aragua-64e72142a171ea57c869c3b35eeecce7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US is paying El Salvador $6 million to keep 300 Venezuelan gang members for a year in their &#8220;notorious prison&#8221;. These gang members are allegedly apart of the Tren de Aragua gang, an international gang expanded from Venezuela. They are known for human trafficking and smuggling. In fact, the US formally declared them a terrorist organization last month. Since 2022 El Salvador\u2019s President, Nayib Bukele, has been cracking down on gang violence and since has arrested 84,000 people, some even without due process. Last month Trump and Bukele struck a deal to house migrants detained in the United States, so this process is just adding onto the previous deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a gang called MS-13 which originated from El Salvadorian immigrants into the US, specifically California. This gang is one of the most infamous in the Americas. The MS-13, comprised of a majority of minors, incites and threatens violence on Central Americans. The gang had gained an increasing foothold in El Salvador prior to Bukele\u2019s crackdown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So these deals are a prime example of tactics States can use to combat non-state actors in conflicts. By taking hard stances and working together the states are able to weaken and even scare off different forms or organized crime. However this can&#8217;t happen without an international effort, especially for international organizations. Along with the US and El Salvador, other South and Central American countries have been working to find and arrest different gang members. The US had even deported 350 members to Venezuala. This also shows that the more States a group has to fight against, the less likely they will be to pursue conflicts. If these gangs have a location they can operate out of with little conflicts it will be much easier to conduct business rather than being arrested in every state they may try to operate out of. So in the case of international gang violence, a more liberalist approach could be the answer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to article: https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-deportations-salvador-tren-aragua-64e72142a171ea57c869c3b35eeecce7 The US is paying El Salvador $6 million to keep 300 Venezuelan gang members for a year in their &#8220;notorious prison&#8221;. These gang members are allegedly apart of the Tren de Aragua gang, an international gang expanded from Venezuela. They are known for human trafficking and smuggling. In fact, the US formally declared them a terrorist&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2025\/03\/18\/us-prepares-to-deport-about-300-alleged-gang-members-to-el-salvador\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6604,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}