White House deports hundreds of alleged gang members to El Salvador : NPR

Several members of the administration on Sunday said on social media, saying that the Trump administration deported more than 200 people, claiming that Venezuela’s jail gang is a member of Train de Aragwa, arriving at El Salvador this weekend.

It was not immediately clear whether the DC had been deported before or after the Federal Judge in the DC on Saturday, which asked the administration to stop using the powers at the time of the war to deport people, and to turn any aircraft already in the air.

According to the positions of the Secretary of State, the deportation of El Salvador included 2 alleged MS -13 gang leaders, initially in El Salvador, and 21 other members of the group. Marco Rubio And from the president of El Salvador Neb Bokly.

President Trump released one on Saturday Announcement Apply for the 1798 Alien enemy act against Train D. Aragua. Rarely used the law that gives the president the authority to detain or deport the citizens of the enemy nation at the time of war. This is the first time after World War II.

“Thanks to the great work of the State Department, the Press Secretary, Caroline Levyt, the White House press secretary, was removed from the abusive monsters and removed to El Salvador, where they will no longer be a threat to the American people.”

“OPS … very late,” Bocal PostedIn response to a news heading about the court order.

With immigrants in El Salvador, it is unclear what the US courts have the jurisdiction. The White House did not immediately respond to the request to comment on the plane’s landing, or any immigrants could be returned to the United States in response to a court order.

The Allen Enemy Act allows a rapid removal process, which means that those subject to the president’s declaration will not go through the normal immigration proceedings in court, or will not be able to claim asylum. The announcement has left no time to counter the government’s claims that people are members of the criminal gang.

Advocates fear that requesting this act will open the door to target and deport others, regardless of their status or criminal record.

El Salvador accepted exiles

The last time a president emphasized the Allen enemy act was WWII, in the meantime 31,000 foreigners of the enemy Of most of the Japanese, the Italian and German descent was kept in internal camps and military facilities. The law needs to be formally declared, or any “attack or hunter attack” by a foreign nation.

El Salvador President, Bokli, published a video on Sunday, which he says, 238 members of Train de Aragwa are arriving in El Salvador. He said that he would be transferred to the CECOT, a terrorist prison center in the country, for a period of one year.

The US Secretary of State, Rubio, said last month that the president of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportation from any nationality from the United States. On Sunday, Bokli’s social media posts refer to “a very low fee” that the United States played for exile for El Salvador.

Rubio said on social media on Sunday, “Thank you for your help and friendship. El Salvador agreed to deport people” at a reasonable price in their very good prisons that will save our taxpayers too, “Robbio. Added.

The American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy on Saturday tried to stop the exile of Venezuela’s five men for 14 days in a litigation, and later expanded the request from all those who could be deported under the declaration of Trump’s “Enemy Act”. Judge James Boseberg agreed to stop the exile of five people. Later, he expanded the order to anyone coming under Trump’s announcement. Another hearing in this case has been set on March 21.

The Trump administration has already appealed to the US court appeals for the judge’s decisions for the District Columbia circuit.

Daniel Kurtzelbin of the ANNPR contributed to the story.