Trump Administration May Be About To Send More Venezuelans To El Salvador Prison

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Source: huff Post




In one case, a petition filed by immigrant detainees said the government’s supposed evidence for his gang membership included emojis he used online.


Paul Blumenthal Apr 18, 2025, 01:01 PM EDT

Lawyers for a group of Venezuelan immigrants detained at Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, filed emergency habeas petitions on Friday after reports from inside the prison indicated the Trump administration was about to remove them, potentially to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador.

The undocumented Venezuelan immigrants held at Bluebonnet were given documents telling them they would be deported and pressured to sign forms affirming their alleged membership in the gang Tren de Aragua, according to a legal filing asking a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas to block their removals.


The habeas petition filed on Friday in the case of A.A.R.P. v. Trump seeks class-wide protection for all detainees at Bluebonnet who the administration claims are subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act.

On March 14, President Donald Trump declared that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was engaged in an “invasion” of the U.S. and that all members of the gang 14 years old and up would be classified as “alien enemies” subject to summary removal without ordinary legal protections. The administration removed over 250 Venezuelan and Salvadoran immigrants to CECOT in El Salvador on March 15, largely under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act.

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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-alien-enemies-cecot_n_68027717e4b058dd5962ebaa

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1. Since the administration insists it has no authority over who we send to the prison in El Salvador...

the location should not be used.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Judge blocks administration from deporting noncitizens to 3rd countries without due process

This makes me smile
https://bsky.app/profile/samanthabrennan.bsky.social/post/3ln4bpbv35s2l

Link to tweet

https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-blocks-administration-deporting-noncitizens-3rd-countries-due/story

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens to countries other than their place of origin without due process.

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued an injunction that bars the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizen to a country not explicitly mentioned in their order or removal without first allowing them to raise concerns about their safety.

"Defendants argue that the United States may send a deportable alien to a country not of their origin, not where an immigration judge has ordered, where they may be immediately tortured and killed, without providing that person any opportunity to tell the deporting authorities that they face grave danger or death because of such a deportation," Judge Murphy wrote.

"All nine sitting justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Assistant Solicitor General of the United States, Congress, common sense, basic decency, and this Court all disagree."

The ruling throws a roadblock in the Trump administration's policy of removing noncitizens to countries like El Salvador, Honduras, or Panama, even if the noncitizens lack an order of removal to those countries.

[SSJVegeta]

3. When will know whether they ignor the order?

[Magoo48]

5. The top tier of our justice system is lawless; there is no enforcement. Judges, rulings are so much dust in the wind.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. So if they sign the confession, they get deported to CECOT.

And if they DON'T sign the confession, they get deported to CECOT.

The logic of the Heritage Foundation (which is past due to be burned to the ground and the ashes salted).