Donald Trump is at war against illegal immigration in the US is figured and, since this weekend, also literally. The US president invoked a law of the late eighteenth century to execute immigrants deportations … undocumented to those who accuse of belonging to dangerous criminal organizations without having to go through the cumbersome legal procedures of justice.
That law was approved in 1798 and has only been used three times, amid war conflicts. The last time, in World War II. Its invocation now and its first use – the express deportation of about three hundred immigrants considered dangerous to El Salvador – has opened another Trump war with justice.
The White House confirmed on Sunday morning the first use of the so -called foreign enemies law by the Trump administration. “This weekend, under orders of the president, the Department of National Security arrested almost three hundred Treno de Aragua terrorists, which saves countless lives from Americans,” said White House spokeswoman, the White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavittin reference to the criminal band of Venezuelan origin implemented in the US in recent years and has become one of Trump’s flags in its fight against immigration. “Thanks to the great work of the State Department, these evil monsters have been extracted and sent to El Salvador where they can no longer assume any threat to the US people,” he added.
By the time this announcement arrived, the Trump administration had already fought in court with justice for the application of this law. The invocation of the foreign enemies law was something that human rights activists already favor immigrants foresaw in the last days that were falling. When the lawyers of some of those expelled were aware of the invocation and express deportation, they filed actions in justice and a federal judge, James Boasberg, ordered the emergency on Saturday night in an emergency view that the expulsion was frozen.
The American Union of Civil Liberties (ACLU) defended before the judge that the drafting of the law did not allow the use that the Trump administration gave him for this deportation. The judge saw indications of this and demanded that deportation be immediately stopped “whatever the way to get it, whether the planes is around,” he said in reference to immigrants in the direction of El Salvador that they were producing that night.
“Too late”
“This is something that their fulfillment must ensure immediately,” he told the lawyer who represented the US government “UPS … too late,” he celebrated with a jocular tone Nayim Bukelethe president of El Salvador, a president who has imposed a hard hand policy against crime and criminal gangs in his country. He did it in a message on the social network X, in response to the news of the blockage of the deportation judge.
A few hours later, in the early hours of Sunday, Bukele published a video, with profusion of cameras and editing, using drones and first planes of the deportees, in which the arrival of immigrants to El Salvador was shown. One of the constants in his government has been to use the image of hard treatment for criminals in the famous Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a penitentiary complex that welcomes tens of thousands of dangerous criminals. The video showed the deportees tied with shackles, pushed with their heads, rapting their hair, introduced into a collective cell.
238 members of the Aragua Train
Bukele explained that “the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization of Aragua” had arrived and that they will be there for a period of a “renewable” year. In addition, 23 members of the MS-13 criminal gang, required by El Salvador, have arrived from the US, “including two of its leaders.”
“USA. He will pay a very low rate for them, but very high for us, ”said Bukele. The payment will be six million dollars by the US for that first period. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, visited El Salvador last February, on his first international tour as head of the diplomacy of the first world power and met Bukele to negotiate, among other matters, this type of operations. “Thank you for your help and for your friendship,” Rubio replied to the video shared by Bukele.
What is not clear is whether the judge’s order arrived too late, as Bukele said, or if the Trump administration missed it, as he has done with other judicial actions. Due to the times of the order and the arrival of flights to El Salvador, it may do so. But, at the same time, the judge only referred to the return of the planes verbally, not within the written order he signed later. The ACLU, which defends among others a Venezuelan immigrant who is a tattoo artist and who assures that he was included among those deported only because he carried tattoos, has demanded that the Trump administration explain whether or not he has ignored the court order.
The Trump administration has resorted to the judge’s decision and has opened a direct confrontation with him, from the highest instances. The attorney general, Pam Bondi, attacked the magistrate, whom he accused of being “more with the terrorists than with the security of the Americans” and assured that his order ignores the presidential powers and “puts citizens at risk and the security forces and the security forces.”
Another clash with justice
The judicial decision is the last shock between the Trump and Justice Administration, one of the few brakes that the US president has, in the midst of a frantic and unprecedented executive activity and with a congress with majorities of its Republican allies in both cameras.
A Republican deputy, Brandon Gill, from Texas, announced yesterday that he will open a process of ‘impeachment’ (legislative judgment for his expulsion) against Judge Boasberg. “Necessary,” Trump’s right hand reacted, Elon Musk, on that ‘impeachment’.
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