The US government said Wednesday it has located a man wrongly deported to El Salvador and whose whereabouts were previously unknown, adding that he is being held in the country’s CECOT maximum-security prison.

Over 200 migrants who were sent to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison under accusations that they were members of a violent criminal gang are the responsibility of the United States, the government of El Salvador told a United Nations working group.

The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the Venezuelan men who were deported from the US to a notorious Salvadoran prison,