A California lawmaker is introducing a bill to stop funding El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison

A California lawmaker is introducing a bill to stop funding El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison

Democratic Rep. Mark Takano plans to introduce legislation Thursday that would block future U.S. payments to the maximum security prison in El Salvador that holds some of the Trump administration’s highest-profile deportees. The California lawmaker’s bill, first shared with NOTUS, stands little chance of becoming law. But it signals how central a role El Salvador has taken in President Donald Trump’s efforts to enforce a sweeping immigration age…