US EditionHundreds of Venezuelans deported to El Salvador have right to challenge detention, judge rules
- On March 15, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that more than 130 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison should be granted the opportunity to contest their detention.
- The deportations occurred under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, which was invoked by the Trump administration to rapidly remove alleged gang members without standard immigration procedures or prior notice.
- Boasberg found that the Trump administration improperly withheld due process rights, requiring the government to facilitate habeas corpus filings for detainees held in a Salvadoran maximum-security prison.
- The ruling followed two planes carrying 238 deportees, including 137 under the Alien Enemies Act, while the Trump administration paid El Salvador $6 million to hold them, despite legal challenges and evidence some detainees lack gang ties.
- This decision challenges the administration’s deportation practices by mandating legal review of removals and highlights concerns over constitutional violations and possible wrongful detentions abroad.
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By Osmary Hernández, CNN en Español Prayers and lit candles accompanied the vigil in front of the United Nations headquarters in Caracas by a group of relatives of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to El Salvador, where they remain detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot). Their demand remains the same: the release of their loved ones. Among them was Melitza González, mother of José Gregorio Briceño, who says he has…
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s government should facilitate Venezuelan migrants expelled to El Salvador to challenge their cases and give him “a week” to say how he will do it. In March, the Republican president invoked the Foreign Enemies Act of 1798, used until then only in times of war, to expel Venezuelan migrants to a megaprison in El Salvador. Trump accused them of being members of the Aragua Train band, d…
5 Points On Boasberg’s Big Alien Enemies Act Ruling
After being mostly scuttled by the Supreme Court, the original Alien Enemies Act case has re-entered the conversation. While the high court took most of the Alien Enemies Act challenges out of the hands of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of D.C. and distributed them to the individual judicial districts where Venezuelan nationals are being detained under the act, it left unresolved the fate of the deportees already removed to CECOT in El Salv…
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