The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has invoked Warlifs to expel more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gangs from Aragua to Salvador, whose imprisonment in a high security prison was announced on Sunday, March 16 by President Nayib Bukele.
Known for human rights defenders against this law of 1798, last used during World War II to move from the Japanese, an American federal judge had ordered a 14 -day suspension of all expulsion on Saturday.
The White House said Sunday that the three planes that took the gang members, classified the “terrorist organization” of Washington, had already taken off when the judicial decision was issued.
238 members of a arrested criminal organization
“The government has not refused to respect a judicial decision.
“A single judge in a single city cannot decide the trajectory of a plane full of foreign terrorists who have been physically returned from the US territory,” he added.
“Wow … too late,” the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, published Sunday in response to an article on the judicial decision, with an emoji that cries laughing.
For civil rights groups, if Donald Trump’s invocation of the Foreigners Law and the 1798 sedition was confirmed by the courts, it could allow the expulsion of a large number of adult migrants without justification or hearing.
Nayib Bukele announced to X the arrival in Salvador of a “first group of 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization in Aragua” and its transfer to the terrorist detention center (CECOC), the high security prison opened at the end of January 2023 as part of its “war” against criminal groups.
In videos transmitted by the Salvadoran government, the soldiers at the airport bring the prisoners of the airplanes and make them climb, chain, on buses.
“Thanks to Salvador and in particular President Bukele for his understanding of this horrible situation,” the US president reacted on his social network of truth.
Donald Trump signed the expulsion decree on Friday, but was not made public until Saturday.
A law used only three times
This law, which allows the US president in times of war to arrest or expel citizens from an enemy nation, had been used only three times: during the Anglo -American War of 1812 to expel British citizens; World War I against national countries and World War II to carry out more than 100,000 Japanese and American citizens of Japanese origin.
In his expulsion order, Donald Trump affirms that Tren de Aragua “fought an irregular war against the territory of the United States, both directly and under the direction, clandestine or not, of the Maduro regime.”
This decision makes all members of the Aragua Train gang “have an immediate arrest, detention and expulsion.”
In response, Caracas denounced a decision of the US government that “informed and unfairly criminalized Venezuelan migration.”
The Acu Human Rights Organization, as well as the democracy striker, had asked a Washington district court to prohibit expulsions, arguing that the 1798 law was not destined to be used in peacetime.
Source: BFM TV
