El Salvador says Trump holds custody of Cecot migrants

The government of El Salvador has told the United Nations that more than 100 Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration to its maximum security prison, CECOT, remain in March under the US government alone – seeming to come from Trump senior officials, who repeatedly affirmed that they had no power to force the return of these individuals.

The United Nations report was included on Monday in a judicial file submitted by ACLU lawyers and other migrant groups representing more than 100 prisoners in CECOT who dispute its withdrawal from the United States to the Salvadoral Safety Prison.

The file included a copy of the statements made by the Salvadoral government to a United Nations Human Rights Office in April, as part of an investigation on behalf of four families.

At the time, Salvador officials told the United Nations that “jurisdiction and legal responsibility” of prisoners sent by the United States in March was “exclusively” with the United States, citing an agreement of $ 6 million which he concluded with the United States in March to accommodate around 300 migrant prisoners.

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Judge James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the Washington Federal District Tribunal, DC, represents a portrait at the Federal Justice Palace of E. Barrett in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2023. (Carolyn Van Houten / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

This statement occurred about a month after the Trump administration in March invoked an immigration law in time of 1798 more quickly deport Venezuelan nationals, Including alleged members of the Gang Tren of Aragua.

Before March, the United States only invoked the law three times, including the most recently during the Second World War.

Lawyers representing migrants argued on Monday That the declaration included in the United Nations report should be reasons for the applicants to request an additional discovery in the case, which had been supervised by the American district judge James Boasberg from March.

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More than 250 members of alleged gangs, after their arrival in Salvador by plane, were seen in San Salvador, El Salvador, on March 16, 2025. (El Salvador Presidency / Handout / Anadolu via Getty Images)

“Since March, the Trump-Vance administration has sought to operate in the shadows without public transparency as it withdraws the people of the country under false claims or without any processes,” said Skye Perryman, president of democracy, who represents Cecot prisoners alongside ACLU, in a statement this week.

“It is a threat to each American and a threat to our democracy as a whole,” added Perryman.

This could also breathe new life into a wave of immigration in a national point.

To date, the revelation has already had a cut-off effect on at least one case involving a Cecot migrant ordered in the United States by a federal judge.

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The demonstrators met before the American district court of Greenbelt, Maryland, to protest against the expulsion by the Trump administration of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to Salvador in March in what administration officials said they were an administrative error on July 7, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch / Fox News Digital)

American district judge Stephanie Gallagher, a person named Trump, ordered the administration on Wednesday to explain his position in the court in the light of new revelations.

“The defendants have contributed on several occasions to the directive of this court to provide information concerning the measures they have taken and will take to facilitate the return of (Cristian ‘) to the United States,” the judge wrote in an order on Wednesday evening, referring to a man expelled in Salvador in March.

She noted that the defendants “have repeatedly made oblique references to their request for assistance from the American State Department, who” concluded negotiations to facilitate the return of Cristian “and` `assumed responsibility in the name of the American government for … diplomatic discussions with El Salvador. ””

Gallagher ruled in April that the government had violated a regulation in 2024 between the DHS and a group of young asylum seekers to expel it before his case was heard in court.

To date, however, it has not been returned to the country.

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American district judge Stephanie Gallagher, a person named Trump, ordered the administration on Wednesday to explain his position in the court in the light of new revelations. (Getty)

The revelation could also appear in another major audience this week.

On Thursday, US District Judge Paula Xinis will hear those responsible for the Trump administration and the lawyers for the Salvadoral Migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia while weighs a request from Abrego lawyers to transfer him to American custody in Maryland.

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Abrego is currently under the care of American marshals in Tenneee, but could be released next week. The complainants quoted deep concerns that the Trump administration will immediately seek to take it in police custody at the Liberation and to deport it in a third country – a concept that the administration has not disputed.

Xinis, for his part, took shade with the evasivity of the Trump administration and the slow march of information, which she compared earlier this week to “try to nail Jell-O on a wall”.