Donald Trump and his White House have moved to deport green-card holders for espousing pro-Palestinian views, shipped hundreds of migrants to a notorious Salvadoran mega-prison without due process (in defiance of a judge’s order), and are now publicly musing about sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador. Trump …
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A State Department official said on Saturday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man that Donald Trump’s administration illegally deported to El Salvador, is “alive and secure” in the Central American nation’s notorious mega-prison. “It is my understanding based on official reporting from our Embassy in San Salvador that Abrego …
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On March 27, 2022, on the heels of a weekend marked by dozens of gang-related murders, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his legislature plunged the country into a régimen de excepción — a state of exception — and declared war against the gangs. The state of exception suspended fundamental …
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The Trump administration deported to El Salvador hundreds of immigrants it accused of being members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang or MS-13, and the deportations may have taken place after a court explicitly ordered they be halted and any planes in the air turn around. On Friday, Trump …
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On Monday, El Salvador’s president made a bizarre offer to the United States: We will take your prisoners. “We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system,” President Nayib Bukele wrote on X. “We are willing to take in only convicted criminals …
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The Trump administration is working on an asylum agreement with El Salvador. The deal would allow the United States to deport migrants who are not from El Salvador — including possibly Venezuelan gang members — to the small Central American nation to seek asylum, CBS News reported, citing two sources …
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