The US Supreme Court has ordered this Saturday to the Government of Donald Trump that provisionally suspends the expulsions of migrants based on a law of the 18th century. In recent months, the United States Administration has protected by the Law of Foreign Enemies to send El Salvador to hundreds of migrants.
“The Government is ordered not to transfer any member of the alleged class of detainees from the United States to the new order of this court,” they indicate in the order.
The American Union of Civil Liberties (ACLU) had presented several emergency resources this Friday aimed at the Supreme Court to prevent the transfer. In his letter they argued that the Trump government is ignoring a decision of the Supreme to expel migrants without “notifying their lawyers) or giving them an opportunity to be heard”.
In its resources, ACLU said that, according to the information delivered by relatives of the detainees, the government sought to send them to El Salvador this Saturday. Specifically, the order affects the detainees found in the Bluebonnet detention center, in Texas, who have accused of being part of the criminal organization of Aragua.
“Emergency intervention is necessary to (…) prevent irreparable and permanent damage to the plaintiffs,” said the ACLU in the appeal before the Supreme.
In last March, the American president deported about 250 people to El Salvador under this old law without a judicial process, all of them accused of belonging to the MS-13 bands and Aragua Train. Given this, Judge James Boasberg issued an order to stop this expulsion and the US administration ignored.
The federal judge found “probable cause” to declare Trump in judicial contempt for violating his opinion through a letter in which he accused the government of demonstrating a “deliberate ignorance” before his order of March 15.
This unleashed a judicial battle to be able to use the law of foreign enemies in deportations, which finally reached the last instance. At the end of March, White House lawyers presented an emergency resource to request that the Boasberg block be lifted.
After this, on April 5 the same Court considered that the Trump administration could continue using the Law of Foreign Enemies to Deport Venezuelan migrants and agreed to lift the blockade. However, in their ruling they established that the individuals to whom the rule was applied would be entitled to a “judicial review” to verify whether “foreign enemies are effectively.”
Deported migrant “By mistake”
Before this Saturday’s ruling, the Supreme Court had asked Trump only a few days ago to “facilitate” the return of the migrant, “by mistake” to El Salvador last March. The High Court then opted in favor of Kilmar Armando Abrego García, legal resident in the country and that since 2019 was judicially protected against deportation. Precisely Kilmar was one of the nearly 250 migrants who were sent to the Cecot megacárcel of El Salvador.
With this resolution, the Court gave the reason to the federal judge of Maryland who issued an order demanding the return of this man, despite lifting the blockade of the Washington James James Boasberg judge.
Source: www.eldiario.es
