The government of Donald Trump This Saturday presented an appeal before the United States Supreme Court asking him to lift the temporary emergency block that issued this morning prohibiting the expulsions of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.
The appeal, signed by US attorney general, John Sauer, Asks the Supreme to allow expulsion flights to the Central American country to resume and also that the Cortes of Lower Instance can resolve the case.
Shortly after midnight on Friday, the supreme responded to an emergency resource of the organization American union for civil liberties (ACLU, for its acronym in English), asking you to intervened before an “imminent” transfer of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador from a detention center in Texas.
ACLU alleged that Trump’s government was violating a judicial decision by wanting to expel men without giving them a “reasonable time” to defend their cases.
The Republican President invoked a law of 1789 -known as the Foreign enemies law– To justify the expulsions of Venezuelan migrants, accusing them of being part of the Aragua traina transnational criminal gang that the government described as “terrorist.”
The use by the government of this law, invoked in the past in times of war, has caused a wave of criticism by the Democratic opposition and legal experts that already speak of a constitutional crisis.
Inmates inside a cell at the Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on April 4, 2025. (Photo by Rodrigo Sura / EFE)
The government’s appeal alleges that the emergency demand that ACLU presented last night was “terribly premature” because “he skipped” the minor courts.
In turn, it indicates that the government notified migrants in advance “before starting the process to take them to El Salvador and points out that the Administration has committed not to expel them under the law of foreign enemies.
According to ACLU on Friday in judicial documents -and confirmed the government on Saturday -the officers of the Bluebonnet detention center in Texas gave Venezuelan migrants a document informing them that they would be expelled under the law of foreign enemies.
Venezuelan migrants arrived handcuffed and uniformed at the terrorism confinement center in El Salvador.
The organization denounced that the notification was written in English and that several of its customers only speak Spanish.
The US government He reached an agreement with the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, to be able to send to migrants arrested in the US to the CECOTa notorious prison for the complaints of human rights abuse.
As part of the treatment, of which specific details are not known, Washington will pay El Salvador $ 6 million annually to sustain the prison system.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, meets with the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, at the Oval Office of the White House on April 14, 2025. (Photo of Brendan Smialowski / AFP).
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In total, the US has sent more than 200 migrants to this prison, mostly Venezuelans, accusing them of belonging to the band of Aragua.
However, according to an analysis published last week by the Bloomberg portal, 90 % of the more than 200 men that the US has imprisoned in the Central American country has no criminal record in US territory.
