Migrants who were sent to CECOT are the responsibility of US, El Salvador tells UN

[ad_1] Over 200 migrants who have been despatched to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison underneath accusations that they have been members of a violent felony gang are the accountability of the USA, the federal government of El Salvador informed a United Nations working group.

El Salvador's claims, outlined in a report submitted Monday in courtroom, seem to contradict what President Donald Trump and administration officers have been saying for months: that they're unable to return any of the migrants despatched to CECOT as a result of they're underneath El Salvador's authority.

"On this context, the jurisdiction and obligation for these individuals lie solely with the competent overseas authorities, by advantage of worldwide agreements signed and in accordance with the rules of sovereignty and worldwide cooperation in felony issues," El Salvador officers stated of their report back to the U.N.

El Salvador's feedback have been made in a report submitted in a courtroom submitting by the United Nations Workplace of The Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Working Group, which was investigating the "disappearances" of 4 Venezuelan males who have been thought to have been despatched to the nation in March.

Up to now, the Trump administration has not launched a listing of these despatched to El Salvador.

"The Salvadoran State emphatically states that its authorities haven't arrested, detained, or transferred the individuals referred to within the communications of the Working Group, " the El Salvador officers stated within the report. "The actions of the State of El Salvador have been restricted to the implementation of a bilateral cooperation mechanism with one other State, by which it has facilitated the usage of the Salvadoran jail infrastructure for the custody of individuals detained throughout the scope of the justice system and regulation enforcement of that different State."

The Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act -- an 18th century wartime authority used to take away noncitizens with little-to-no due course of -- to deport two planeloads of alleged migrant gang members to El Salvador by arguing that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is a "hybrid felony state" that's invading the USA.

Salvadoran law enforcement officials escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua lately deported by the U.S. authorities to be imprisoned within the Terrorism Confinement Heart jail, in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, obtained Mar. 16, 2025.

Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia through Reuters

The migrants have been despatched to CECOT as a part of a $6 million deal the Trump administration made with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for El Salvador to accommodate migrant detainees as a part of Trump's immigration crackdown.

Attorneys for the ACLU who're representing the unique case difficult the AEA removals -- filed in March as the lads have been en path to CECOT -- stated they grew to become conscious of the doc final week by one of many households of the lads.

The attorneys accuse the federal government of withholding the knowledge regardless of earlier requests the ACLU made for paperwork associated to the administration's association with El Salvador.

"The federal government of El Salvador has confirmed what everybody already knew: the USA controls the destiny of the Venezuelans despatched to CECOT with out due course of," Lee Gelernt, an lawyer for the ACLU informed ABC Information in response to the U.N. report. "Unbelievably, the U.S. authorities did not present this info to us or the courtroom."