Trump has mused openly about subjecting immigrants, as well as U.S. citizens, to harsher punishment, and said he’s directed aides to assess the legality of banishing American-citizen offenders to the El Salvador megaprison where, until recently, no one had ever emerged alive.

Detainees reportedly called a TV station claiming that guards beat detainees and released tear gas while a fire alarm blared and a helicopter circled.

Attorneys are fighting for the legal rights of detainees at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades