The Trump administration on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to block a lower court’s order directing the Trump administration to provide due process to scores of Venezuelan immigrants who were deported without hearings to El Salvador in March under a wartime law. The emergency request by the Justice Department, filed to the U.S. Court…
NEW YORK: Hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the United States to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law must be given the chance to challenge their detentions, and the Trump administration must facilitate the legal challenges, a US judge ruled on Wednesday. US District Judge James Boasberg gave the Trump administration one week to…
Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration to take in migrants deported from the United States, the central African nation’s foreign minister said late Sunday. It was unclear if a deal would involve migrants who had already been deported or those who will be in the future, but any agreement could make Rwanda the…
A Venezuelan family is calling for a 2-year-old to be returned to her mother after the U.S. authorities deported the mother to Venezuela on Friday without the child. The girl’s father was sent to a prison in El Salvador in March. The toddler, Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal, remains in foster care in the United States,…
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 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…
Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen has come under the ire of the White House after the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, posted pictures on X of him meeting and shaking hands with an alleged MS-13 gang member, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that was formed…
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…
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…
A US judge said on Tuesday that there is no proof the Trump administration has made any effort to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador. However, she said she won’t punish the government just yet. In a hearing in Greenbelt, Maryland, US District Judge Paula Xinis stated…