People need to see that image,” Noem said of the striking photos of her surrounded by rows of tattooed inmates crammed inside their cells at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended a video she took while touring a mega prison in El Salvador last week, arguing that it was an image people needed to see for transparency—and to scare those in the country illegally.

Kristi Noem took time to explain herself following a controversial visit to El Savador's notorious mega-prison last week. In a new interview with Fox News' Special Report host, Bret Baier, on Monday night,

A Friday hearing is set for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father mistakenly deported by the Trump Administration to a supermax prison in El Salvador. Despite the mistake government has made no efforts to rescue him.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's mistaken deportation, described by the White House as an “administrative error," has outraged many .

The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” and argued it could not return him because he’s now in Salvadoran custody.