New photos out of El Salvador show 2,000 alleged gang members packed into the country’s largest brand-new prison. NBC’s Valerie Castro explains why the nation’s president hails the move as a victory while human rights groups are sounding the alarm.
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Good job
Man when all those prisoners were sitting there on the floor head on back the guards should’ve opened up with a machine gun lmao. That would help with the crime rate
El Salvador 🇸🇻 ❤️ from America 🇺🇸
Do you know how much I care about the “ethical treatment” of homicidal gang members? It’s exactly the same as their concern for my own ethical treatment. They are the enemy of civilized society and anyone that sympathizing with their cause is either too full of themselves to actually see the reality of this world or is blatantly fighting on the side of the enemy.
Honestly, there needs to be a film about how they could have possibly rounded up all these dudes in a sweeps. Wouldn’t they have been met with gunfire~?
Yo this off the hook
Good
Haha what is this woman on? These liberals should go move there and live with these gang members and see their innocence.
Yes, round them up like the animals they are.
These are subhumans who have no “human rights”. The “human rights” crowd are just covering for the subhumans who make life for actual humans unbearable. Next up? El Salvador style prisons in LA, NYC, Philly, DC, Detroit, Portland, Seatlle, New Orleans, etc, etc…
nice!! good that‘s how it should be all over the world. end this misery end crime
I love how the person the people who are not happy about this are foreigners, lol. If you talk to the majority of the CITIZENS, they’re happy. They’re 90 percent in favor of these emergency powers. Now the country will for sure have more tourism and peace.
When you need stadiums to jail “gang” members you have already lost the war unless you have some way of breaking the conveyor belt that drives people to join gangs in the first place. No one wants to ask why El Salvador can’t build a society with options other than life long poverty. And once the government is finished with this crusade who is going to be the next group defined as criminal and targeted for mass incarceration?
That’s how prisoners in u.s should be treated none get rehabilitation when they locked up so we might as well take their humanity from them
Need this to happen in the United States cops behind bars soldiers behind bars criminals behind bars politicians like trump behind bars
The other nations should shut up the president is doing a great job . ❤❤❤❤ it’s better to clean the corruption than let people die by these criminals
The president is trying to enforce public safety and all their prisons were very old and out date so he built a brand new mega prison.
Finally someone treating criminals like they are supposed to be treated.
Scurring like cockroaches, under the command of a drill sargent…
Que bien se siente ver la basura en su lugar 🤭
The left is worried about the constitutional right of gang members to have access to trials, especially for minors participating in criminal activity, but never bats an eye to minor students detained or even shot dead on their way to school in Palestine. 😂😂
“some may belive the cost may be too high” = those living in million dollar homes far far away.
Their tattoos showing their affiliation give them away.
Why don’t you guys report and investigate hunter biden ??
2:29 guy covered in tatooes ….’ we don’t know if these guys commited a crime’
It’s amazing how Latin Americans can see what happens in Democratic cities and still walk into a voting booth and vote for Democrats
Jamaica needs this asap
We need him in haiti period!
I can’t imagine afraid of walking around the neighborhood at night 😭 that man and his kids deserve a small happiness. Good job El Savador!
White liberals are crying while the people celebrate. Twitter is not the real world
not alleged
Children? 17 yr old thugs are hardly children.
Finally! May God protect this President
Thank GOD for Nayib Bukele❤
Alleged??? Please make sure you give the right information. Those are condemned criminals, NOT ALLEGED. Those guys are killers.
Proverbs 29:2
When the just rule, the people rejoice.
But when the wicked are in power, the people groan.
They should get rid of them we dont need them on this planet where they can hurt peopel
Treat them like the gogs they are
As a Salvadoran I’m PROUD of what President Bukele is doing. Americans leftist are used to pushing for criminals, little do they do what they are asking for until they are victims are VICISIOUS crimes. I’m Proud of Bukele, Keep going Mr. President!!! Trump 2024! MAKE AMERICA AND EL SALVADOR GREAT AGAIN!
Throwing more and more people behind the wall won’t stop the problem. It will just hide it.
Screw to western media f- wits.
Great job President Bukele. It was about time!
Look at all these Asians 😂.
These news people are so dumb ,or they want to seem dumb ! How is the president making deals with gangs for less years ?? Whoever makes it to that big prison won’t be getting out ,there’s no deal for less years here !!!
We should’ve done this to all the BLM rioters.
Anybody that is upset about this should find some unedited footage of what MS-13 has done to their victims. Maybe these bleeding hearts should volunteer to have them moved to their gated communities?
Tough situations must sometimes be solved with tough solutions, this is a brutal prison for brutal prisoners.
While I don’t usually support actions like these, I do think this is a necessary step until the problem is quenched.
It’s easy to identify these gang members because they all have the gang tattoos on them. So I doubt there are any false arrests.
You play stupid games , you win stupid prizes. That’s what jail should look like in all countries, maybe some would then reconsider their life choices. Bravo El Salvador 👏👏👏
We should do that in the U.S.
Drastic situations call for drastic measures
Who cares they are criminals. Why not talk about the human rights for the wigers in camps in China and in Central African about slavery. Crying over criminals not being treated right but not caring about innocent people being treated right
*NOT “ALLEGED” COMFIRMED TERRORISTS!!!*
fake NEWSSSSSSS!!! “ALLEGED”!!!. PROVEN AND COMFIRMED CRIMINALS
never WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME!! PROVEN AND COMFIRMED CRIMINALS,,TERRORISTS
Ten years ago this would’ve made me cringe but with the lawlessness plaguing our cities I think this could scare criminals into reconsidering their path . The soft and easy route certainly hasn’t slowed crime in the US.
Liberals in America are crying rivers for these poor criminals
The USA government is mad because they don’t have the ball my president has to fight actual crime
This is where America is heading
“Alleged gang members “disaregard the giant MS 13 tattoos
They lucky cause the government had other plans.
Alleged? There covered in tattoos that say ms 13…
Our leftist leaders can learn a thing or two from President Bukele.
This could never work in USA, it would give a reason to so many groups to go out and loot stores and marches in the infinity claiming human rights are being violated. The politicians that depend on this criminality wouldn’t allow it either.
…extremely tattoed males …and thei tattoos are gang related…just a “coincidence”
Only people complaining and liberals who have never been in a bad neighborhood in their lives
A my personal opinion they should do that immediately here in the United States hunt down every criminal take them and lock them away and throw away the key
These men were once children what happened to them to end up this way?……🤺💓🌹I pray for the broken families 🙏
what a waste of tax payers money, disgusting
This man is the best president in Latin America! I wish Mexico had a president like this.
Why can’t America do this.
Can we do this in America next?
My mother is from El Salvador, and she has family back there and they all say it’s much safer now. They feel free and not in constant fear.
I’ve always wanted to go but put the trip on hold due to the crime there. That was when I was a teenager, now I’m an adult and may plan a trip there soon.
“Alleged gang members” mostly peaceful?
That explains it. It explains why we have an influx of migrants coming from that country to our borders because of the barbaric violence going on and playing in that country like El Salvador. Hats off for this man he’s trying to clean up his country the best he’s can and let him do his job.
I feel like crying I wish that was my president
President Duterte pretty much did the same thing in the Philippines and the reaction from international human rights organization were also the same. Do what is necessary for the people of your nation even if it means getting your hands dirty because cockroaches like MS13 will F you up uf you give them the chance. These insects doesn’t play fair, so strip them of their rights, they don’t deserve it anyway.
All of Latin America should learn from this and clean up these countries and give it back to the people, where were these humanitarian groups when homicides were off the roof??
“Alleged” lol
Long live Bukele!
👏👏👏❤️
Walk around her and complain like a three year old looking at a dirty tampon
“Alleged” are you freaking blind … hahaha..you don’t see their gang tattoos…
El Salvador 🇸🇻 is a very small country, so why do they have so many gang members 🤔. What took the country so long to do something now 🤔
Better not let biden bring them here because he is fool enough to do so
South Africa should build a 100,000 mega prison for their wannabe gangsters 😂
😎
This is like 1940s
Guess we will wait till death toll in these camps reached millions before intervention…
❤ Bukele ❤
Congratulations El Salvador.
Switzerland 🇨🇭
Are liberals MS-13 members???
Let’s go!!!! Treat cockroaches like cockroaches…well done El Salvador!
Please build a several of these prisons in the USA and run them exactly like El Salvador’s President is running them. I applaud this man. Crime is out of control, here, in the USofA.
I remember on Liveleak years ago someone posted a raw video of a home invasion of a EL Salvador gang initiation and a mother home with her kids shot killed point blank with pool of blood from her head in front of her little toddler daughter crying for her mom. Ill never forget that video. To me these thugs are human trash and I have no remorse for them !!
I get that is was urgent to act, but this type of power can be used for bad in the future. And I am sure that there is innocent people in jail, is it worth it? (it’s a real question, it’s not rhetorical)
I’m a Salvadoran, I applaud my president for making such awesome changes and also for a presidents that takes care of his people. Thank you
They are not allege gang members they are gang members
Alleged lol they have it written all over their faces
This would be considered racist in America.
The usa needs to do the same thing we have a lot of shopping thefts not as bad but it can get bad