A Court of Appeals in Washington DC temporarily blocked a federal judge attempt to declare the president’s government Donald Trump In contempt.
The federal judge, James Boasberg, had started the process last week to declare the administration in contempt for ignoring a court order and having sent more than 200 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, to the Megacárcel in El Salvador.
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In an order issued this Friday, the DC district appeals Court indicates that the blocking of the procedures seeks to give that Court more time to study the government’s arguments to challenge Boasberg’s decision.
Last Wednesday, in a decision of more than 40 pages, the magistrate accused the Executive of having ignored with “Complete contempt” A court order that instructed them to reverse the sending of migrants to the Central American country.
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“The Constitution does not tolerate the intentional disobedience of judicial orders, especially by officials who have sworn to respect it”wrote.
Allow the government “annular” The judgments of the Cortes, added Boasberg, “It would make the Constitution itself a solemn mockery”.
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Trump invoked on March 14 the Law of Foreign Enemies of 1798, used in times of war, to expel hundreds of Venezuelans to which he accuses of belonging to the criminal organization Aragua train.
A day after the law invoked, Boasberg blocked its use just at the time when two planes were heading to Central America with migrants and ordered the return of those flights.
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The planes did not turn back and landed in El Salvadorunleashing an unprecedented legal battle in which the even Trump suggested to take the magistrate to a political trial.
The shipment of migrants to El Salvador has caused a series of demands to the Trump government and the rejection by international organizations.
“Forced disappearances”
The NGO Human Rights Watchin a report published last week, he accused USA and El Salvador to be subjecting these people to a “Forced disappearance”.
The Trump administration has defended expulsions accusing migrants of having links with the train gangs of Aragua and MS-13, recently qualified by Washington as terrorist groups.
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However, multiple investigations from US media have shown that most those expelled to El Salvador have no criminal record.
USA reached an agreement with the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukeleto send some migrants arrested in the US to the CECOT, a notorious prison for the complaints of human rights abuse.
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As part of the treatment, of which specific details are not known, Washington will pay El Salvador 6 million dollars annually to sustain the prison system.
