The Trump administration stated Sunday that hundreds of individuals were deported from the nation after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a sweeping wartime authority which has been used solely thrice earlier than, to hurry up the deportations of migrants allegedly affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
The announcement comes after a federal choose temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s capacity to make use of the Alien Enemies Act, which has solely been used thrice earlier than, on Saturday night, and ordered any planes within the air carrying a few of these migrants to show again to the US. The choose stated the momentary restraining order will stay in impact for 14 days “or until further order of the court.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that on the president’s course, the Department of Homeland Security had arrested practically 300 members of Tren de Aragua over the weekend, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio introduced earlier Sunday that “hundreds of violent criminals were sent out of our country” after Trump took motion on Saturday.
What El Salvador is saying: Bukele stated in a post on X Sunday morning that his nation acquired 238 alleged members of the legal group Tren de Aragua from the US. The alleged TDA members had been transferred to the Center for Terrorism Confinement, CECOT, the most important and latest jail within the nation. They will stay there for a yr, however that interval may be prolonged, the president added.
The US pays $6 million to El Salvador to accommodate the deportees. The cash, in keeping with Bukele, will assist maintain the penitentiary system, which at the moment prices $200 million yearly. In addition to the alleged members of Tren de Aragua, the US despatched 23 alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha MS13 gang to El Salvador, who had been needed by the Salvadoran justice system, Bukele added in his submit.
Rubio thanked Bukele in a post on X, whom he referred to as a “friend” of the United States and “the strongest security leader in our region.” NCS has reached out to the State Department and White House for extra details about when the flights left the United States.
Republican Sen. Mike Rounds stated on NCS’s “State of the Union” that he expects the chief department is following the legislation, telling NCS’s Jake Tapper “we don’t know if that happened that way” when pressed on if he’s involved that the Trump administration doubtlessly violated the court docket order.
Read extra about the deportations and the judge’s ruling here.
NCS’s Alejandra Jaramillo and NCS en Español’s Merlin Delcid contributed reporting to this submit. This submit has been up to date with extra reactions and reporting on the deportations.