BBC News, Washington DC
More than 200 Venezuelans alleged by the White House to be gang members were expelled from the United States to a Supermax prison in Salvador, even as an American judge blocked the moves.
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, wrote on social networks that 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren in Aragua had arrived in the country of Central America, as well as 23 members of the International Gang MS-13 on Sunday morning.
Neither the US government nor El Salvador identified the prisoners, or provided details on their alleged crime or their gang membership.
The ordinance of a federal judge prevented the administration of Trump from invoking a war law of several centuries to justify some of the deportations, but the flights had already left.
“Oopsie … Too late,” posted Bukele on social networks, referring to the judge's decision.
A video attached to one of his messages shows lines of people with their hands and chained feet escorted by civil servants armed with planes.
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that the court decision had been raped.
“The administration has not” refused to comply “to a court order,” she said.
“The ordinance, which had no lawful basis, was issued after the TDD Terrorist extraterrestrials (Tren of Aragua) had already been removed from the American territory.”
US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he had signed a proclamation invoking the extraterrestrial enemy law of 1798 when he accused Tren of Aragua of “perpetrating, trying and threatening a predatory invasion or foray against the territory of the United States”.
He said gang members would be expelled for participating in an “irregular war” against the United States.
The law – which was used for the last time during the Second World War to intervene Japanese -American civilians – is a large law which allows the detention and the expulsion of the natives or the citizens of an “enemy” nation without the usual processes.
On Saturday evening, the American district judge James Boasberg in Washington DC ordered a 14 -day stop to the deportations covered by the proclamation of Trump, pending other legal arguments.
After the lawyers told him that planes with deportees had already taken off, judge Boasberg gave a verbal order for the flights to turn, reported the American media, although this directive is not part of his written decision.
ReutersThe written opinion appeared in the case file at 19:25 is on Saturday (00:25 GMT on Sunday), reports the reuters news agency, although it is not clear when the flights carrying the alleged members of the gangs left from the United States.
On Sunday, in a legal file, the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice had not declared that the order had not been applied because the deportees “had already been withdrawn from the territory of the United States”.
A senior administration official told CBS News, the American BBC partner, that 261 people were expelled on Saturday 137, including the alien enemies Act for alleged gang ties.
The Ministry of Justice appealed the judge's decision.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which was involved in the trial against the Trump administration, said that the court order may have been raped.
The case raises constitutional questions since, under the American check system and counterweight, government agencies should comply with the decision of a federal judge.
Venezuela criticized Trump invoking the law on extraterrestrial enemies, claiming that “unjustly criminalizing Venezuelan migration” and “evokes the darkest episodes in the history of humanity, from slavery to horror of the Nazi concentration camps”.
Rights defense groups have sentenced Trump, accusing him of using a 227 -year law to circumvent the regular procedure.
Amnesty International USA wrote on X that the deportations were “yet another example of the racist targeting of the Trump administration” of the Venezuelans “on the basis of radical claims of affiliation of gangs”.
President Bukele, an ally of Trump, wrote that the detainees were immediately transferred to the famous mega-jail of El Salvador, the Center for Confainment of Terrorism (CECOC).
The president of El Salvadoran said they would be detained there “for a period of one year”, and this could be “renewable”.
El Salvador's Cecot prison Be part of Bukele's efforts to suppress organized country crime.
The newly constructed maximum security installation, which can contain up to 40,000 people, has been accused by human rights defense groups mistreatment of detainees.
ReutersThe arrangement between the United States and Salvador is a sign of strengthening diplomatic links.
El Salvador was the second country that Rubio visited as the first diplomat of the United States.
During this trip, which took place in FebruaryBukele made a first offer to take us deportees, saying that it would help pay the huge installation of Cecot.
Trump's second deportations of the second term of the president's long-term campaign against illegal immigration to the United States.
In January, Trump signed a decree declaring Tren of Aragua and foreign terrorist organizations of MS-13.
He conquered voters on the campaign campaign, in part, promising to promulgate the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States.
While the illegal border crossings have dropped to the lowest number for decades that Trump took office, the republican president would have been frustrated by the rhythm of relatively slow deportations.
