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The Salvador government told the United Nations that more than 100 immigrants from Venezuela have been deported Trump administration In March, CECOT remains under the sole control of the US government. This appears to undermine months of claims by Trump officials who have repeatedly argued that they have no authority to enforce these individuals returning.
The UN report was included on Monday in a court filed by lawyers for other immigration groups representing more than 100 detainees from the ACLU and CECOT, challenging the removal from the United States to the largest security Salvadorian prison.
The filing included a copy of a statement made by the Salvador government to the United Nations Human Rights Office in April as part of an investigation investigated on behalf of the four families.
At the time, Salvadoran officials told the United Nations that “jurisdiction and liability” for detainees that the US sent to CECOT in March “exclusively” to the US, citing an agreement with the US in March to host about 300 immigrant prisoners.
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Judge James E. Boasberg, the Supreme Court Justice of the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, shortened the portrait on March 16, 2023 at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Court in Washington, DC. (The Washington Post via Carolyn Van Houten/Getty Images)
That assertion came about a month after the Trump administration in March evoked the 1798 wartime immigration law more quickly. Decoteau Venezuelan citizens, Includes alleged members of Tren de Aragua gang.
Before March, the United States called the law only three times, including recently during World War II.
Lawyers representing immigrants Discussed on Monday The statements contained in the UN report should be the basis for seeking additional findings in the case where plaintiffs were being overseen by US district judge James Boasberg starting in March.
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More than 250 suspicious gang members are seen after arriving in El Salvador by plane in Salvador, El Salvador on March 16, 2025. (President El Salvador / Handouts /Anadoru via Getty Images)
“Since March, the Trump Vance administration has been trying to act in the shadows without public transparency to pretend to be false or to eliminate the people of the country without a process,” Skye Perryman, who represents CECOT detainees alongside the ACLU, said in a statement this week.
“This is a threat to all Americans, a threat to our entire democracy,” Perryman added.
It also breathes new life into the gusts of stagnant immigration cases across the country.
At the time of this writing, the revelation already has a knockdown effect on at least one case involving CECOT immigrants who have been returned to the US by federal judges.
Protesters gathered outside the US District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, to protest the Trump administration’s deportation of Kilmer Abrego Garcia in March on July 7, 2025, when administrative authorities sent to El Salvador in March to be administrative errors. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Digital)
Trump’s appointee, US District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, ordered the administration on Wednesday to explain its position to the court in light of new revelation.
“The defendant repeatedly skirted this court’s order to provide information regarding the measures they took; [‘Cristian’] In the US, “Judge wrote in order on Wednesday evening and referred to the man. He was deported to El Salvador in March.
She said the defendant “repeated the demand for ‘assistance’ from the US State Department. “We concluded negotiations to promote Christian return,” and “on behalf of the US government… took responsibility for diplomatic discussions with El Salvador.”
Gallagher found in April that the government violated a 2024 settlement between DHS and a group of young asylum seekers when his case was deported before it was fully heard in court.
However, at the time of this writing, he has not been returned to the country.
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Trump’s appointee, US District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, ordered the administration on Wednesday to explain its position to the court in light of new revelation. (Getty)
The revelation could also be brought to the fore at another major hearing this week.
On Thursday, US District Judge Paula Sinis asks Abrego’s lawyer to transfer him to US custody in Maryland, so he hears from Trump administration officials and lawyers for Salvadrian immigrant Kilmer Abrego Garcia.
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Abrego is currently under the control of the US former US S. in Tennessee, but could be released as early as next week. The plaintiffs cited deep concern that the Trump administration would take him to ice detention upon his release and banish him to a third country.
For her, Sinis has been troubled by the evasiveness of the Trump administration and the slow stroll of information, which he likened earlier this week to “trying to nail Geloo to the wall.”
