Administration says it deported 17 more 'violent criminals' to El Salvador

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By REBECCA SANTANA and MARCOS ALEMAN
Updated 7:46 PM EDT, March 31, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday that it has deported 17 more “violent criminals” from the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs to El Salvador, as it doubles down on a policy of removing people from the U.S. to countries other than their own despite criticism over lack of transparency and human rights issues.

The State Department said the immigrants were removed Sunday night. The statement said murderers and rapists were among them but didn’t give details of the nationalities or alleged crimes of those removed. The office of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, however, said Salvadorans and Venezuelans were among the prisoners.

“These criminals will no longer terrorize our communities and citizens,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in the statement. “Once again, we extend our gratitude to President Bukele and the government of El Salvador for their unparalleled partnership” ...

https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-deportation-venezuela-tren-de-aragua-trump-0d3485e0985b9d30d493c9da0adf73ef

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1. US deports more alleged gang members to El Salvador amid court fight

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - The Trump administration deported more alleged Venezuelan and MS-13 gang members to El Salvador over the weekend, the U.S. State Department said on Monday, even as questions arose in a legal challenge over the process to determine gang members.

Seventeen alleged violent criminals tied to Tren de Aragua and MS-13 were transported by the U.S. military on Sunday night, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement, adding that the deportees included murderers and rapists.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-deports-more-alleged-gang-members-el-salvador-2025-03-31/

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2. Administration admits 'error' in deporting Maryland resident to El Salvador

By Kyle Cheney

04/01/2025 05:28 AM EDT

The Trump administration acknowledged late Monday that it had inadvertently deported a man to El Salvador last month despite a court’s determination that he had a legitimate fear of persecution in his home country.

“This removal was an error,” a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official wrote in a statement to a federal judge.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran, was on one of three deportation flights to his home country on March 15 amid a frantic legal fight over President Donald Trump’s decision to invoke war powers to hasten the deportation of more than 100 Venezuela nationals to El Salvador ...

The Trump administration now says there’s nothing it can do to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to U.S. custody. The Justice Department is urging a federal judge to reject a petition by Abrego Garcia’s attorneys to seek his return to United States custody, saying the Trump administration has no power to force El Salvador to facilitate that demand — and that the courts have no authority to issue such an order. ...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/salvador-man-maryland-deported-mistake-00262870

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3. 'Trump claims a Michael Jordan tattoo is evidence of Venezuelan gang membership'

"An internal Trump administration document claims that having a Michael Jordan 'Jumpman' tattoo and wearing 'high-end urban street wear' makes you a likely member of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang. The document was recently made public in a federal court case. The case is contesting the Trump administration's deportations of over 200 Venezuelan noncitizens it deems to be TDA members, without any due process, to a notorious prison in El Salvador."

"The document, titled 'ALIEN ENEMY VALIDATION GUIDE,' creates a point system to determine whether a Venezuelan over 14 years of age is a TDA member. Anyone scoring eight points or higher 'are validated as members of TDA.' Those scoring six or seven can be deemed members of TDA depending on the 'totality of the facts.'"

"A separate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document, also filed in federal court, on 'detecting and identifying' TDA members, lists the tattoos it claims are associated with TDA. Among them is Jordan's 'Jumpman' logo, over his number for the Chicago Bulls, 23."

"Under this criteria, LeBron James, who has a crown tattoo and, like many NBA players, dresses in high-end street wear before games, would be 'validated' as a member of TDA. (James would be spared deportation to El Salvador because of his American citizenship.)"

https://popular.info/p/trump-claims-a-michael-jordan-tattoo

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Deport Pete Whiskileaks Ginbreath. He's tattooed with a machine gun like the gang he hates

He also has a very prominent Crusader Cross tattoo much favoured by white nationalists.

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8. Well

Just because he's an American citizen isn't a guarantee that LeBron James wouldn't be deported to El Salvador!

ICE is following orders and lying on federal documents, while simply ignoring the law, for the most part!

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9. And once anyone, including U.S. citizens, are disappeared and offshored there is nothing anyone can do.

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4. sends more migrants to El Salvador as legal scrutiny over flights mounts

March 31, 2025 at 7:29 p.m. EDTYesterday at 7:29 p.m. EDT

By Arelis R. Hernández and Natalie Allison

The Trump administration has transferred 17 alleged gang members to El Salvador, the second such removal in two weeks, as the president pushes forward with his plan to send migrants to a notorious jail in Central America despite mounting concern over whether he can lawfully do so.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that a military plane flew the alleged Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members to El Salvador on Sunday evening, in what he described as a “counterterrorism operation.”

The migrants included 10 Salvadoran and seven Venezuelan men who were previously being held at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, according to a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the operation. All were removed under federal immigration law, not the Alien Enemies Act, which an appeals court has blocked the administration from utilizing while a legal battle over the wartime provision plays out in court ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/31/trump-el-salvador-venezuelans-deportations/

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5. Violent criminals? How did Mango Jebus, Felon Musk and Herr Stefan Miller enjoy their flight?

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6. It's a big cruel expensive show to make propaganda for magas to consume with popcorn. . . . nt

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10. Do we know where all these criminals were before getting snatched? Prison? Awaiting trial? Living

somewhere after having served a sentence? Or not involved in the legal system at all, just living their lives?