The individual stories of the men sent to El Salvador

ProPublica has created a database of the 238 Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador on March 15.

Trump called the men, without evidence “some of the most violent savages on the face of the Earth.”

But ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and a team of Venezuelan journalists from Alianza Rebelde Investiga (Rebel Alliance Investigates) and Cazadores de Fake News (Fake News Hunters) have spent the past four months reporting on the men’s lives and backgrounds.

“We obtained internal data showing the Trump administration knew that at least 197 of the men had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. — and that only six had been convicted of violent offenses,” ProPublica says. “We identified fewer than a dozen additional convictions, both for crimes committed in the U.S. and abroad, that were not reflected in the government data.”

ProPublica continues to seek information on the men and is asking for readers’ help.