The judges temporarily block the expulsions of immigrants pursuant to the law of 1798, invoked by the President of the United States to promote the deportations of immigrants in prison in El Salvador. In a decision announced in the early hours of Saturday (19/04), the United States Supreme Court established the temporary prohibition that President Donald Trump Trump deports illegal immigrants to the law of enemies so called. Strange, 1798, who had been used only in war times.
“The government is in charge of not removing any member of the alleged class of prisoners from the United States to the new order of this Court,” says the determination of the Supreme Court.
The decision was made in response to an emergency appeal submitted by lawyers for human rights who try to suspend the deportation of immigrants currently held in an installation in the State of Texas in the southern United States.
In his appeal, presented on Friday evening in several courts, the American Union for Civil Freedoms (Aclu) argued that the Venezuelans held in Texas had been informed that they were “imminently removable”.
Some prisoners were already on the edge of the buses to be transferred to the airports, which explains how quickly the appeal was presented.
To carry out the expulsions, Trump invoked the law of foreign enemies to arrest the alleged members of the Venezuelan Band Tren de Aragua and deport them to the maximum security arrest in El Salvador.
So far, the law had been used only during the 1812 war against the British Empire and its Canadian colonies and in the two world wars.
“Bad people”
On Friday, Trump told journalists not to know these new planned deportations in particular, but that if there were “bad people”, he would have authorized the expulsions. “That’s why I was elected. The judges were not elected,” he observed.
The lawyers of several Venezuelans previously deported insist that their customers were not members of the Tren of Aragua and claim to have not committed crimes and widely targeted in the countryside because of the tattoos in their bodies.
The Supreme Court had already issued a decision last week allowing the deportations to continue for a megaprison to El Salvador, but only if those threatened with deportation pursuant to this 18th century law had a “reasonable time frame” to contest their expulsion.
On Friday Aclu declared in his appeal that migrants held in Texas were in danger of “being removed from the United States without notice or opportunity to be listened to”.
“We are deeply raised by the fact that the Court temporarily blocked the expulsions. These individuals were imminent risk of passing the rest of life in a brutal saved prison, without ever having a fair process”, the lawyer of Aclu Lee Gelerner, cited by the news agency Associated Press (AP).
On Friday, two federal judges refused to intervene while the lawyers of prisoners took urgent legal initiatives to prevent deportation.
Aclu had already presented other resources to block the deportation of two Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet structures, appealing to a decision by the American court that would prevent removal from any immigrants in the region pursuant to the law of foreign enemies.
Following a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court, on April 9, the federal judges of Colorado, New York and the southern Texas have issued orders that prevent the expulsion of prisoners under the law of foreign enemies, until the federal administration organizes a coincidence and present a report in court.
Second bukele
The United States government has reached an agreement with the president of El Salvador Nayib Bukele to send immigrants in the United States to the terrorist confinement center (Cecot), a maximum security arrest that has been the subject of accusations of abuse of human rights.
As part of the agreement, whose specific details are not known, Washington will pay El Salvador six million a year to support the central prison system.
In total, the United States have sent more than 200 immigrants, mostly Venezuelans, in this prison, accusing them of belonging to the Araga Tren.
According to an analysis published last week by Bloomberg, 90% of the over 200 men that the United States arrested in El Salvador have no criminal record on American soil.
Case Kilmar Garcia
Last week, the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of the Salvadorene migrant Kilmar Embego Garcia, unjustly expelled in March and arrested in a prison of Salvado under the same law.
This Thursday was visited by the American senator Chris Van Hollen. Initially, the democratic politician had denied access to visit the famous maximum security arrest to El Salvador, where Kilmar was sent with 200 other people.
But Thursday evening, Van Hollen shared a photo of a meeting of both on the social media platform, in a hotel in San Salvador. “I said my main goal of this trip (El Salvador) was to meet Kilmar. I had this possibility tonight,” wrote the Senator of Maryland.
MD (Efe, Afp, Reuters)
Source: Terra
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