BBC Information, Washington DC
ReutersA aircraft carrying greater than 200 Venezuelans deported by the US has landed in El Salvador, hours after a US decide ordered the Trump administration not to take action.
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, wrote on social media that 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had arrived, together with 23 members of the worldwide MS-13 gang, on Sunday morning.
Their arrival within the central American nation got here after a federal decide blocked US President Donald Trump from invoking a centuries-old wartime regulation to justify the deportations – one thing Bukele made enjoyable of in a later put up.
“Oopsie… Too late,” he mentioned.
The transfer by the US to ship alleged criminals from different international locations to El Salvador was an association US Secretary of State Marco Rubio beforehand known as “essentially the most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory settlement wherever on the earth”.
Bukele wrote that the detainees had been instantly transferred to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Heart (Cecot) “for a interval of 1 yr”, one thing that was “renewable” – suggesting they could possibly be held there for longer.
“The USA can pay a really low payment for them, however a excessive one for us,” he added.
Rubio confirmed the alleged gang members arrival in El Salvador and thanked Bukele, calling him “the strongest safety chief in our area”.
Hours earlier than, on Saturday night, US District Choose James Boasberg ordered a halt to deportations coated by Trump’s proclamation, which invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
The regulation permits the federal government to detain and deport individuals threatening the nation’s security with out due course of.
ReutersVenezuela criticised invoking the wartime measure, saying it “unjustly criminalises Venezuelan migration”.
After listening to that planes with deportees had taken off, Choose Boasberg ordered them turned again, the Washington Submit reported.
Rubio confirmed in a press release on Sunday that the deportations occurred underneath the Alien Enemies Act, and made no point out of the decide’s ruling.
He mentioned: “A whole bunch of violent criminals had been despatched out of our nation.”
A video connected to one in all Bukele’s social media put up exhibits traces of individuals with their arms and ft shackled being escorted by armed officers from the aircraft.
Among the detainees are positioned into the again of armoured autos, whereas others, hunched over as officers push their heads down, are compelled onto buses.
The video additionally exhibits an aerial view of a protracted, winding police escort main the buses into El Salvador’s infamous mega-jail Cecot.
The newly-built maximum-security jail is a proud achievement of Bukele’s, and a part of his effort to crack down on the nation’s organised crime.
The power, which might maintain as much as 40,000 individuals, has been criticised by human rights teams for maltreatment of inmates.
ReutersThe association between the US and El Salvador is an indication of strengthening diplomatic ties.
“Thanks in your help and friendship,” Rubio instructed Bukele on Sunday.
El Salvador was the second nation Rubio, the US’s high diplomat, visited after he was sworn in.
Throughout that journey, which passed off in February, Bukele made an preliminary supply to take US deportees, saying it will assist pay for the large Cecot facility.
The most recent deportations underneath Trump’s second time period are a part of the president’s long-running campaign towards unlawful immigration within the US.
In January, Trump signed an govt order declaring Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as international terrorist organisations.
He gained voters on the marketing campaign path, partially, by promising to enact the most important deportation operation in US historical past.
The agenda has to date not met expectations, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers not assembly Trump’s each day quota for arrests.
A latest report urged ICE brokers had deported fewer immigrants in February than that they had the identical month a yr prior in the course of the earlier administration underneath Joe Biden – 11,000 in February 2025, in comparison with 12,000 in February 2024 – in keeping with NBC Information.
BBC Information, Washington DC
ReutersA aircraft carrying greater than 200 Venezuelans deported by the US has landed in El Salvador, hours after a US decide ordered the Trump administration not to take action.
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, wrote on social media that 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had arrived, together with 23 members of the worldwide MS-13 gang, on Sunday morning.
Their arrival within the central American nation got here after a federal decide blocked US President Donald Trump from invoking a centuries-old wartime regulation to justify the deportations – one thing Bukele made enjoyable of in a later put up.
“Oopsie… Too late,” he mentioned.
The transfer by the US to ship alleged criminals from different international locations to El Salvador was an association US Secretary of State Marco Rubio beforehand known as “essentially the most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory settlement wherever on the earth”.
Bukele wrote that the detainees had been instantly transferred to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Heart (Cecot) “for a interval of 1 yr”, one thing that was “renewable” – suggesting they could possibly be held there for longer.
“The USA can pay a really low payment for them, however a excessive one for us,” he added.
Rubio confirmed the alleged gang members arrival in El Salvador and thanked Bukele, calling him “the strongest safety chief in our area”.
Hours earlier than, on Saturday night, US District Choose James Boasberg ordered a halt to deportations coated by Trump’s proclamation, which invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
The regulation permits the federal government to detain and deport individuals threatening the nation’s security with out due course of.
ReutersVenezuela criticised invoking the wartime measure, saying it “unjustly criminalises Venezuelan migration”.
After listening to that planes with deportees had taken off, Choose Boasberg ordered them turned again, the Washington Submit reported.
Rubio confirmed in a press release on Sunday that the deportations occurred underneath the Alien Enemies Act, and made no point out of the decide’s ruling.
He mentioned: “A whole bunch of violent criminals had been despatched out of our nation.”
A video connected to one in all Bukele’s social media put up exhibits traces of individuals with their arms and ft shackled being escorted by armed officers from the aircraft.
Among the detainees are positioned into the again of armoured autos, whereas others, hunched over as officers push their heads down, are compelled onto buses.
The video additionally exhibits an aerial view of a protracted, winding police escort main the buses into El Salvador’s infamous mega-jail Cecot.
The newly-built maximum-security jail is a proud achievement of Bukele’s, and a part of his effort to crack down on the nation’s organised crime.
The power, which might maintain as much as 40,000 individuals, has been criticised by human rights teams for maltreatment of inmates.
ReutersThe association between the US and El Salvador is an indication of strengthening diplomatic ties.
“Thanks in your help and friendship,” Rubio instructed Bukele on Sunday.
El Salvador was the second nation Rubio, the US’s high diplomat, visited after he was sworn in.
Throughout that journey, which passed off in February, Bukele made an preliminary supply to take US deportees, saying it will assist pay for the large Cecot facility.
The most recent deportations underneath Trump’s second time period are a part of the president’s long-running campaign towards unlawful immigration within the US.
In January, Trump signed an govt order declaring Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as international terrorist organisations.
He gained voters on the marketing campaign path, partially, by promising to enact the most important deportation operation in US historical past.
The agenda has to date not met expectations, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers not assembly Trump’s each day quota for arrests.
A latest report urged ICE brokers had deported fewer immigrants in February than that they had the identical month a yr prior in the course of the earlier administration underneath Joe Biden – 11,000 in February 2025, in comparison with 12,000 in February 2024 – in keeping with NBC Information.
