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More than 100 men accused of belonging to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

The move comes after a federal appeals court last week upheld a court order barring the Trump administration from expelling detained immigrants suspected of gang affiliation, but not convicted or charged with gang-affiliated criminal activity, to a maximum-security Salvadoran mega prison under the Alien Enemies Act.

The lack of tangible information about her son Oscar – one of 238 Venezuelans deported by the US to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador – has driven Gertrudis Pineda to despair and left her at the brink of a breakdown.

Mother and son are separated by six borders and the impenetrable walls of the Cecot, El Salvador's notorious "Terrorism Confinement Centre" – a maximum-security prison built to house violent members of the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs.

Soon after, images of the 238 Venezuelans having their heads shaved were broadcast as they were being processed upon their arrival at the maximum-security Cecot.