The Frightening Precedents for Trump’s ‘Legal Abyss’
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Democrats Land in El Salvador, Seeking Release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia
Four House Democrats traveled to El Salvador on Monday to press for the release of a Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported there last month, and to demand updates on him and other migrants who are imprisoned there. The visit was the latest bid by Democrats in Congress to amplify the case of Kilmar Armando…
El Salvador’s Bukele offers Maduro US-deported Venezuelans in prisoner swap deal
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Sunday proposed sending 252 Venezuelans deported from the US and imprisoned in his country to Venezuela, in exchange for taking “political prisoners” held by Venezuela. In a post on X, Bukele asked that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hand over 252 “of the political prisoners you are holding,” under his…
Bukele Has Power to Return Deportee to U.S., Experts Say
Siding with the Trump administration, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, said on Monday that he would not send back a Salvadoran migrant, whom the U.S. authorities deported from Maryland in error last month, an expulsion that set off a legal battle that has reached the Supreme Court. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the…
Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants
Nathali Sánchez last heard from her husband on March 14, when he called from a Texas detention center to say he was being deported back to Venezuela. Later that night, he texted her through a government messaging app for detainees. “I love you,” he wrote, “soon we will be together forever.” Her husband, Arturo Suárez…
The Trump Envoy Who Got Close to the ‘World’s Coolest Dictator’
Soon after he took up his post in El Salvador, U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson forged an unusually close relationship with the country’s president. President Trump had nominated Mr. Johnson in 2019 as his ambassador to the country shortly after the White House declared war on El Salvador’s notoriously violent gangs, including MS-13. The relationship between…
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Leader, Sees Opportunity in Trump’s Deportations
Shortly after the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador this weekend, the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, posted a three-minute video on social media. It featured shackled men being marched off a plane over a dramatic electronic soundtrack and into prison, where they were shaved bald. Mr. Bukele also taunted the U.S. judge…
Venezuelan Families Fear for Relatives as Trump Celebrates Deportations to El Salvador
According to Ms. Casique, her son had no gang affiliation and had entered the United States to seek asylum in late 2023 after several years spent working in Peru to support his family back home. During his journey north, he had been injured in Mexico after a fall from a train, she said. Mr. García,…
El Salvador’s Prisons Are Notorious. Will They House Trump’s Deportees?
A day after President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador offered to imprison convicted criminals from the United States, including U.S. citizens, the question of whether such a plan could actually be accepted and implemented was still unanswered. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who stopped in El Salvador while visiting Central America this week, said on…
Trump Says He Would Jail Americans in El Salvador ‘in a Heartbeat’
President Trump said on Tuesday that he was open to an offer by El Salvador’s president to jail convicted criminals, including American citizens, in the Central American nation’s notorious “megaprison.” “If we had the legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat,” Mr. Trump said. He almost surely does not have…
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