“There is no limit to the agreement: we will continue to send foreign terrorists to El Salvador, as well as many other countries,” Stephen Miller, the White House Cabinet and considered the architect of the immigration policy of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, explained to media.
Miller’s words occurred shortly before Trump meets at the White House with his Salvadoran counterpart, Nayib Bukele.
“There are thousands of members of the Aragua train in this country, or its affiliates and associates. So, obviously, a part of them will go to El Salvador as part of our effort to eradicate this foreign terrorist organization in the United States,” Miller added.
After sealing a contract that implies a provision of US $ 6 million by Washington and of which many details are unknown, El Salvador has allowed the use of its maximum security prison, the Center for Confinement for Terrorism (CECOT), to house alleged members of the train gangs of Aragua (TDA) and MS-13 expelled from the US.
Within the framework of Trump’s great migratory offensive, Washington declared that the Aragua train is invading its territory and used a 1798 rule, the Law of Foreign Enemies, to expedite deportation processes of alleged members of the criminal organization, which experts consider unable to undertake similar siege over the first world power.
That was the law that his administration champion in a controversial operation on March 15 in which he sent the CECOT to 238 Venezuelans and 23 Salvadorans, among them Kilmar Ábrego García, to which the immigration authorities recognized that they expelled by mistake since a judge in 2019 had granted the blockade to their deportation because returning it to his country puts his life at risk.
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court ordered to ensure its return to the federal government, which has pointed out its limitations in this field by not already being Ábrego García under its custody.
For his part, Miller argued that Ábrego García was not deported by mistake because “the protection orders (to deportation) do not apply to foreign terrorist organizations for obvious reasons”, although the government itself acknowledged that it was expelled by mistake and have not contributed evidence to belong to any criminal organization.
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Even so, on Friday Trump himself showed his desire to comply with what was said by the highest American court, which suggests that perhaps his return to the US could be announced. When he meets today with Bukele. EFE