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groundloop

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Tue Mar 25, 2025, 05:22 PM Mar 25

Trump administration claims details of mass deportations are state secrets [View all]

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Source: The Guardian

The Trump administration invoked the “state secrets” privilege to avoid providing more information to a federal judge regarding this month’s highly contentious immigrant expulsions to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act.

The administration’s invocation of the privilege is a further escalation in Donald Trump’s immigration-related battle against the federal judiciary.

According to a court filing submitted by justice department officials on Monday evening, “no further information will be provided” to the federal court in Washington DC based on the state secrets privilege. The filing said the case deals with Trump’s complete and absolute authority to remove “designated terrorists participating in a state-sponsored invasion of, and predatory incursion into, the United States”.

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Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act on 15 March to expel Venezuelan immigrants in the US. That day, 238 Venezuelans and 23 Salvadoran men were placed on planes and sent to El Salvador, where they were then quickly detained in a massive “terrorism” prison run by the Salvadoran government. For over a week, a federal judge has attempted to compel the Trump administration to release information about the operation.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/trump-deportation-state-secret



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