5 Takeaways: Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Migrants to El Salvador
Internal documents and interviews with people familiar with the operation reveal how the White House seized on a wartime law to accelerate immigrant deportations.
Tren de Aragua (Gang)
Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison
New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
Government Notices to Migrants Fall Short of Due Process, Legal Experts Say
Venezuelan migrants were given English-only notices with limited time to file court challenges, according to a newly unsealed declaration.
Another Lawsuit, This Time in Colorado, Over Trump’s Use of the Alien Enemies Act
The president’s efforts to invoke a wartime statute to deport scores of Venezuelan immigrants have set off one of the most contentious legal battles of his second term.
Trump to Meet President of El Salvador, Where Deportees Face Prison
Mr. Trump has found in President Nayib Bukele a willing partner in a plan to step up the removal of migrants from the United States with little or no due process.
Rubio Says 10 More People Have Been Expelled to El Salvador
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that “the alliance” between President Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had “become an example for security and prosperity in our hemisphere.”
Lawyers for Venezuelans Challenge Alien Enemies Act Deportations in Texas
The filing was in response to a Supreme Court decision that let the migrants challenge efforts to deport them under a wartime law, but only in the place where they were being held.
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Block Order Requiring Return of Wrongly Deported Migrant
The government said Judge Paula Xinis, who ordered that the administration return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, by Monday, had engaged in “district-court diplomacy.”
Inside the Trump Administration’s Deportation of a Migrant to El Salvador
Immigration officers asked Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia if he was a gang member, and refused to believe him when he denied it, according to court papers.
Trump Administration Probably Violated Court Order on Deportations, Judge Says
The judge, James E. Boasberg, said he was likely to wait until next week to rule on whether the White House was in contempt of court for having ignored his order.