Migration policy: illegally deported? US government defends procedure

In the debate about the deportation of more than 200 migrants to El Salvador, the White House refuses more information about the concrete allegations against the alleged antitrust members. “We will not reveal any surgical details about an anti-terrorist operation,” said spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, when asked by a journalist, how exactly it was found that the deported are actually members of a criminal gang. Leavitt replied that the responsible authorities had “excellent evidence” to justify the deportations.

The US government had flown to Migrants on the weekend with the reasoning to El Salvador, it was members of the Venezuelan Cartel Tren de Aragua – we were talking about “Monsters” and “Terrorists”. Civil rights activists doubt that all of them are really about gang -criminal and demand more transparency. It is unclear whether there is someone under the deported someone who was convicted of crime in the United States and was therefore in custody.

Lawyer: Client in the sights of tattoos

A person’s lawyer told the New York Times that her client had been targeted by the authorities because of his tattoos and had been in US custody since his asylum application last year. However, he was unable to invalidate the allegations in a decent procedure.

The sister of another affected person told the “Miami Herald” that her brother was not a cartel – he was arrested at his workplace in Texas the day before the deportation. She then recognized him on pictures on the Internet.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele had spread a video on X that shows the arrival of the deported in a notorious giant prison – in prison clothes and shaved heads. The detention is part of a deal with the Trump government: El Salvador takes up the alleged offenders from the USA and in return receives several million dollars.

Legal basis controversial

In order to justify the recent deportation to El Salvador, the Trump government mainly relies on a controversial and hardly used law from 1789: The “Alien Enemies Act” allows the president to have people from “enemy nations” detested and deported without regular procedures.

After the deportation plans had become known, the Civil Rights Organization had intervened. A judge in the US capital Washington then ordered a preliminary stop of the measure to clarify their legality. It is currently being checked whether the US government simply ignored the judge.