'We were lied to:' Two women the Trump administration tried to send to El Salvador prison speak out
Source: NBC News
'We were lied to:' Two women the Trump administration tried to send to El Salvador prison speak out
The women’s accounts raise questions about the thoroughness of the administration’s vetting of migrants it has sent to the notorious prison.
April 2, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
By Didi Martinez, Julia Ainsley and Laura Strickler
On March 15, the Trump administration loaded more than 200 men onto three planes bound for El Salvador, where they were to be locked in its notorious CECOT prison. A video of the men being marched, head-down, into police vehicles and into the facility ricocheted around the world, a symbol of the United States’ position on immigrants it accuses of having gang ties.
But not seen by the camera were eight women who were also on the planes but never got off. Shortly after they landed, according to court filings, El Salvador apparently refused to take them. So they were shipped back, to be locked up again on American soil.
Now, for the first time, two of those women are speaking out in an interview with NBC News, describing the chaos they say they witnessed during the Trump administration’s deportation efforts and how, they allege, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials deceived them about where they were being taken.
“We were lied to,” said one of the women, Heymar Padilla Moyetones, 24. “They told us we were going to Venezuela, and it turns out that, no. When we arrived at our destination, that’s when they told us we were in El Salvador.”
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/two-women-trump-admin-tried-send-el-salvador-prison-speak-rcna198958
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They tried to send women to CECOT, and that's a line even El Salvador is reluctant to cross.
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