
El Salvador Put Trump Deportees Behind Bars. Now Their Families are Suing.
- Americas
- May 9, 2025
Their loved ones were collected by the American immigration authorities, deported to El Salvador and then imprisoned in a notorious prison of maximum security. Now, more than the families of boxes are demanding the Salvadoran government, the battery to illegally keep their children, brothers, nephews and partners after bars for almost two months.
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Since March, none of the families has had news of their imprisoned relationships, who had pending or approved applications of asylum or other child or humanitarian protection in the United States, according to a copy of the Suite seen by New York.
“Everyone has deported their legs without due process, excluded from any protection of the law and are in a situation of forced disappearance,” said Isabel C. Roby, Robert F. Kennedy’s staff lawyer, one of the demands.
The spokesmen of the Government of El Salvador did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The White House has found an important ally in the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, to carry out its deportation policy. At least 288 American deportees, mostly Venezuelans and several Salvadorans of boxes, including a man deported by Maryland by mistake, are in custody, the recent estimates of the demand, but the exact number is not known to be reduced.
The complaint requests that the commission order the Bukele government to immediately release the 18 migrants who had incommunicado in prison and facilitate their return to the United States or another country where they heat safely.
In February, the sacrifice of Mr. Bukele to collect criminals sentenced deportees from the United States, for a rate. In their discussions with US officials, the New York Times has learned that Mr. Bukele realized that he wanted evidence that all Venezuelan migrants were members of the Aragua gang, an affirmation of the Trump administration he has used to justify deportations. But an investigation of the Times did not find a criminal record, nor found only minor infractions, for most men.
“Neinder, the Trump administration, or the Bukele regime have demonstrated any case in which an individual has legeterminate by a court to be a member of a gang,” said Isabella Mosselmans, director of the Global Council of Strategic Litigation of Rights, Rights and Rights.
On the other hand, the decision to deport them has trusted “superficial characteristics,” said Mosselmans, added that nine of the men named in legal action were accused according to their tattoos.
Recently legal actions, presented by the defense group that Mrs. Mosselman leads against other Central American nations who had agreed to accept planloads of deported persons, have some impact. In March, Panama launched almost 112 migrants who were detained in a remote jungle camp. And last month, Costa Rica returned the passports to the people he had stopped in an old pencil factory, which allowed them to leave if they wanted it.
El Salvador, however, is different.
To take energetic measures against the gangs of his country, Mr. Bukele imposed an emergency state in 2022 that allowed him to suspend the normal rights of due process. Since then, his government has swept thousands of gang members and innocent people in mass judgments. Human rights groups have tried to challenge the legality of the judges, with little effect. Or thousands of legal actions presented in recent years, only one handful have been resolved.
Even if the Inter -American Commission governs in favor of the plaintiffs, the lawyers in El Salvador warn that it could be difficult to press the government to do something.
“Bukele’s regime could not matter less,” said Enrique Anaya, a constitutional lawyer with headquarters near San Salvador, the capital, who has questioned the legal basis of the deportation agreement. “El Salvador will launch only these people and exclusive if the United States authorizes it to do it.”