The Trump administration has sent hundreds of Venezuelans, alleged members of Train Gangs from Aragua, to El Salvador, raising doubts if deportations violated the order of a federal judge who temporarily blocked his removal under the administration that invoked the Alien enemies law.
During a hearing on Saturday night, the American district judge James Boasberg in Washington, DC, ordered the removals of any Venezuelan that it is already in custody of the United States and covered by the proclamation of the AEA, to a new informative session on the use of the law by the administration.
In the oral decision of Boasberg an order was included in which the Government turned any plane that transported people covered by the order in the air. During the hearing, the plaintiffs, represented by ACLU and the striker of democracy, told the Court that they understood that there were at least two flights in the air that were heading to Honduras and El Salvador.
Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the Venezuelan Gang Train of Aragua recently deported by the United States government to be imprisoned in the prison of the Terrorism Confinement Center, in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, obtained on March 16, 2025.
Press Secretary of the Presidency Via Reuters
On Sunday, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, published a video of officials in the country who received 238 train members of Aragua. “Oopsie, too late,” Bukele published in X in response to an article by New York Post about Boasberg’s order to change flights.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio thanked Bukele in X for receiving migrants.
“We have sent 2 dangerous leaders of MS-13 plus 21 of its most wanted to face justice in El Salvador,” said Rubio. “In addition, as promised by @potus, we send more than 250 alien enemy members of the train of Aragua that El Salvador has agreed to keep in its very good prisons at a fair price that will also save our dollars from taxpayers.”
Bukele said the migrants who arrived from the US. UU. They will be transferred to their terrorism confinement center for “a period of one year.”
-ABC News’ Laura Romero, Katherine Faulders, Ely Brown and Peter Charalambous
