> These men were never intended to spend the rest of their lives at CECOT

Kristi Noem indicated publicly that they should stay there "the rest of their lives."

> nor did they. All were released in July 2025 to their home country of Venezuela, and they were in El Salvador for a total of 125 days.

No kidding. Things did not play out that way because the intention was just for a few months of torture for those people before they'd eventually be deported to Venezuela anyway, it was because of the legal and political uproar over what had been done.