U.S. President Donald Trump met with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Monday, a leader who hopes to leave the United States for opening up the prison system in his country to suspected gang members.
Under the Alien Enemy Act of 1798, the Trump administration had deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, including Maryland residents, and it admitted to misdematching the deportation.
Trump took office in January and promised to reform U.S. immigration policies, which he found in Bukele. Immigrants in El Salvador, who have been placed in a high-security prison, said they were engaged in human rights violations.
The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident, was sent to the so-called terrorist lockdown center in El Salvador, which caught the attention despite orders to protect him from deportation.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Judge Paula Xinis’s order, directing the government to “promote and implement” his reward, but said the term “effective” is unclear and may exceed her authority.
However, in court documents on Sunday, the government said it was not obliged to help Abrego Garcia leave the prison in El Salvador.
The Trump administration has expelled more than 200 immigrants by invoking the Alien Enemy Act, a wartime measure, saying they are members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragya. Andrew Chang explains how Trump interprets the language of the 1798 law to avoid the standard immigration court system and why experts say it is a slippery slope.
Buckley does “Excellent Job”: Trump
Trump told reporters Friday that if the Supreme Court directs his administration to bring Abreg Garcia back.
“I think his job is great, he is taking care of a lot of problems, and we really can’t take care of it from a cost perspective,” Trump told reporters on Sunday.
“He’s amazing. We have some really bad people in that prison. Those who will never be allowed to enter our country.”
Trump exerted concerns about whether he was concerned about so-called human rights violations, which Trump refused.
He said, “I can’t see it. I can’t see it.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States expelled another 10 people on Saturday as members of the gang in El Salvador.
Attorneys and relatives of the immigrants held by El Salvador say they are not members of the gang and have no chance to compete with the U.S. government claims. The Trump administration said it reviewed immigrants to ensure they belonged to Tren de Aragua and marked a terrorist group.
Last month, after the judge said flights of immigrants processed under the Alien Enemies Act should return to the United States, Bukele wrote on social media “Oopsie…it’s too late”, a videotape showing a man being driven out of the plane in a dark, dark night.
Bucker’s strongman tendency first attracted widespread international attention when he first dispatched armed security forces and final scheduling to the Legislature in early 2020. He replaced the Constitutional Court judge with a compliance judge after the results of the active legislative election in 2021.
Then, even though El Salvador’s constitution prohibits the president from serving five consecutive years, he still manipulates his campaign for re-election.
El Salvador has been one of the worst homicide rates in the world until a significant drop in the past few years.
Burkele and his supporters call him a tough way to commit crimes – some estimates that at least 5% of the country’s male population is detained between 14 and 29 – but the Joe Biden administration’s U.S. Treasury Department said Bukele’s administration has claimed that Bukele’s administration has secretly engaged in a melee with gang leaders to quell the deadly violence.
The Biden administration claims that the Buckley administration purchased the gang’s support for the financial benefits and privileges of its incarcerated leaders, including prostitutes and cell phones. Buckley strongly denied the allegations.
Similarly, Biden’s term in office has expressed concern about “credible reports” of human rights violations such as arbitrary arrests, lack of due process, torture by security forces, and life-threatening prison conditions.
Maryland man despite previous ruling
As for Abrego Garcia, his lawyer said no federal criminal or extradition proceedings were filed against him.
Abrego Garcia’s wife and five-year-old son are U.S. citizens and live in Maryland, a family’s legal complaint said.
The complaint said his son was pulled by ice officials while driving and handcuffed while in the back seat of the car on March 12.
U.S. immigration and customs law enforcement officials say Abrego Garcia was wrongly sent to El Salvador despite the 2019 verdict saving him from deportation.
Democrats and human rights groups have slammed a video from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem late last month when he appeared in front of a crowded tattooed man in El Salvador prison.
Noem talked to the camera to stop people reaching the U.S. border point and said, “Know that if you commit crimes against the American people, we will use one of the tools in that tool.”
In the first few days of the administration, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration considers anyone unauthorized in the United States to be a “criminal.” Traditionally, entering a border point or living between the United States without legal status is considered a civil crime.
