Trump administration deports hundreds of alleged gang members to El Salvador despite court ruling
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Originally Published: 16 MAR 25 10:18 ET Updated: 17 MAR 25 01:17 ET By Alison Main, Michael Rios, Kevin Liptak and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of mostly Venezuelan alleged gang members were deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador on Sunday, with the Trump administration in…
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US plans to deport about 300 alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador
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Trump administration deports hundreds of alleged gang members to El Salvador despite court ruling
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration will pay El Salvador $6 million to imprison for one year about 300 alleged members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, in one of the first instances of the Central American country taking migrants from the United States.
El Salvador is going to imprison around 300 members of the Tren de Aragua gang being deported from the US -- after the Trump administration agreed to pay $6 million for the transfer of the vicious Venezuelan migrants, according to a memo obtained by the Associated Press.
It was not clear if the deportations happened before a D.C. federal judge ordered the administration to stop using wartime powers to deport anyone immediately, and turn around any planes in the air.
The Trump administration invoked a wartime law from the 18th century to rapidly deport Venezuelans to El Salvador. A federal judge had issued an order temporarily banning the expulsions.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said his country has accepted hundreds of violent gang members deported from U.S. to be housed in El Salvador's notorious prison.
WASHINGTON >> More than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang have been deported by the U.S. and sent to El Salvador where they were taken to a high-security prison, the Salvadoran president said on Sunday.
Originally Published: 16 MAR 25 10:18 ET Updated: 17 MAR 25 01:17 ET By Alison Main, Michael Rios, Kevin Liptak and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of mostly Venezuelan alleged gang members were deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador on Sunday, with the Trump administration in…
More than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang have been deported by the U.S. and sent to El Salvador where they were taken to a high-security prison, the Salvadoran president said on Sunday.
The Trump administration has deported more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador who it accuses of being gang members with a rarely used law to quickly expel them without due process.
The Trump administration has sent hundreds of Venezuelans accused of being gang members to a prison in El Salvador -- the first of whom arrived Sunday, pushing the limits of U.S. immigration law by carrying out the deportations seemingly after a federal judge ordered that the flights not proceed.
