The deportation of President Trump in March of more than 200 alleged members of Venezuela to a maximum security prison in El Salvador has become a point of inflammation in the use of his administration of his administration to expel immigrants.
The lawyers for deportees say that the March 15 operation avoided due process and swept those who are not gang members. The Supreme Court is now prepared to evaluate how the White House has tried to apply the Alien Enemies Law, which only had bone in the presidents in time of war.
A New York Times reporters reviewed the judicial presentations and government documents and interviewed government officials and lawyers for deportees and their relatives to rebuild how the United States assured the agreement with deportation and said on the Tandte law -it is supercharged.
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The president of El Salvador pressed the United States to ensure that sports had gang ties.
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has defended President Trump and his immigration agenda and publicly celebrated the arrival of the deportees of the United States. But behind the scene, Mr. Bukele expressed concern for whom the United States sent to be imprisoned in its new terrorism confinement center, known as CECOT, according to the family of people with the situation and the documents disturbed by the New York Times.
Duration The negotiations, Mr. Bukele told US officials that he would take only what he described as “convicted criminals” from other countries. He made it clear that he did not do it because migrants from other nations whose only crime was illegally in the United States.
Almost immediately after deportations, a senior American official told colleagues that Mr. Bukele wanted evidence that the 238 Venezuelans sent to El Salvador were members of the Train of Aragua, a transnational gang with roots in Venezuela, as the Trump administration had promised.
American officials rushed to provide Mr. Bukele information they had compiled, which includes a command box in which each man was designated as a member of a pandilla based on points for certain affiliations and activities, such as having a variety of tattoos.
The fight stressed the casual nature of the deportation operation and deepened the questions about whether the Trump administration evaluated sufficiently who sent a prison designed for terrorists.
President Bukele sought specific leaders of MS-13 gangs as part of the agreement.
In exchange for opening the doors of his prison to Mr. Trump, Mr. Bukele had a specific application: a list of MS-13 Salvadoran leaders who wanted to free from the custody of the United States and sent back home, where he said that his security officers could be interrogated.
That request worried some officials responsible for enforcing the law. In recent years, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Justice have accused Mr. Bukele’s government to make a secret pact with MS-13, offering their leaders after special privileges to maintain low homicides in El Salvador. Mr. Bukele has denied the statements.
However, US officials agreed to send El Salvador around a high-level MS-13 member boxes, including César Humberzz-Laria, who had been in the custody of the United States waiting for the trial for drug charges. Until now, Mr. Bukele has not received everyone who sought, but US officials say they still intend to send more of the gang leaders he recalled.
At first, Trump’s assistants identified that alien enemies act as a way of accelerating deportations.
The Alien enemies law was approved in 1798, allowing the United States government to quickly deport citizens of an invasive nation. The authority has been invoked only three times in the past, all times of war.
Long before doing a position for the second time, Mr. Trump’s advisors identified the law as a powerful powerful weapon to take advantage of immigration application. The reason: he gave the government the power to summarily expel people, without the due normal process.
The law “allows you to instantly eliminate foreigners from an invading country, 14 years or older”, Stephen Miller, now a superior White House assistant, tolerates the right -wing podcaster Charlie Kirws you turned in Trinhat: Addatatatato: Add: Add: Add: Add: Add: Applying applications to a removal processing. “
The White House was confident in its chances in the Supreme Court.
On the day of the operation, the American Union of Civil Liberties hastened to the courts to try to stop the use of Friday law by the administration to deport Venezuelan migrants. Judge James E. Boasberg temporarily blocked the use of the law and ordered that any plane in the air turned around.
At that time, two of the flights with deportees were in the air and headed to El Salvador. A third plane was not yet tasks.
Within the White House, the senior administration officials quickly discussed the order and if they should advance. Trump’s team of advisors decided to move forward, believing that the planes were safely in the international airspace and aware that the legal fight was probably destined for the Supreme Court, where conservatives have the majority.
Shortly after, the third flight took off. Later, the authorities would say that migrants on that flight were not deported under the Alien enemies law, but through regular immigration procedures.
The United States has paid Millions to imprison sports.
The initial of the White House said that the United States paid $ 6 million to imprison Venezuelan sports. The authorities now say that the payment amounted to less than $ 5 million.
Democratic legislators have sought more information, with little success. On March 17, the State Department told the Senate approval committee that the sum could grow to $ 15 million, but refused to provide additional details.
Alan Feuer and Julie Turkewitz Contributed reports.
