Venezuela, El Salvador and CECOT
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U.S. District Judge Boasberg weighs new allegations in the Trump administration's immigration case after blocking the administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans.
A Venezuelan migrant who was deported from the U.S. to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison in March filed an administrative claim Thursday over what he says was his wrongful removal from the U.S. without due process.
The more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's mega-prison in March have left El Salvador to be sent to Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap that included Americans being held in Venezuela, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced on X.
U.S.-Venezuela prisoner swap is a chilling reminder of Trump’s scorn for the rule of law | Editorial
The return of 10 U.S. citizens in exchange for 250 deportees who were sent to El Salvador in March underscored the blatantly illegal way the Oval Office upended these immigrants' lives.
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Latin Times on MSNU.S. Officials Knew a Triple Murderer Was Among Detainees Being Released From Venezuela In Deal With MaduroAt least some officials in the Trump administration knew that Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a triple murderer, was among the detainees repatriated to the U.S. as part of a deal with the Maduro authoritarian gove
One of the 10 Americans released from Venezuela last week was convicted of killing three people in Spain and was serving a 30-year sentence before his release.
Francisco Javier Casique, one of 252 Venezuelans quietly deported to the mega prison, told Newsweek about their four-month detention in El Salvador.
A little after 9 p.m. local time Friday, Ydalys Chirinos-Polanco texted HuffPost a photo of her beaming next to her 25-year-old son, Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. They posed behind a sign that read in Spanish: “Welcome to your country Venezuela. You don’t know how long we’ve waited for this moment. God bless you always.”