First A ABC: High -ranking Democrats presand Trump administration about American treatment with El Salvador to stop migrants
The recent judicial presentations suggest that the Trump administration “cheated federal judges, the American congress and people” on an agreement between the United States and El Salvador to stop more than 200 Venezuelan migrants in the notorious mega prison known as CECOT, four members of democratic classification of the committee of the House of Representatives said in a letter.
The letter, reviewed by ABC News, was sent on Thursday to the National Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and asks the officials to deliver each and every one of the agreements between the United States and El Salvador, who have not been made public.
The letter cites judicial presentations that seem to contradict the statement of the administration that migrants sent to prison are only under the jurisdiction of the Government of El Salvador.
Prison officers eliminate the wives of a prisoner to enter a cell in the Maximum Cecot security penitentiary (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism) on April 4, 2025 in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador. In the midst of an internal legal dispute, the Trump administration continues with its controversial and rapid deportation policy to El Salvador, as part of an association with President Bukele.
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According to these presentations, presented on July 7 in a case that defies the elimination of Venezuelan migrants from the United States, the Government of El Salvador told a United Nations work group that men in CECOT deported in the United States remain the “legal responsibility” of the United States.
“In this context, the jurisdiction and legal responsibility of these people lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of the international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters,” said the officials of El Salvador in a report to the UN to the UN to the UN.
In their letter, the members of the classification said the presentation “indicates that the Department of Justice has cheated the federal courts in statements on the agreement with El Salvador.”
ABC News has communicated with DHS and the State Department to comment on the letter.
The Trump administration has insisted for months that it cannot return any of the migrants sent to CECOT because they are under the authority of El Salvador.
In March, the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Law, a war authority, to deport two planes of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador as part of a $ 6 million agreement, the administration reached the administration of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, to house Trump’s migrant detainees.
The Trump administration argued that the men who were deported are members of a Aragua train that the Government has considered a foreign terrorist organization and a “hybrid criminal state” that is invading the country.
However, an ICE official said in an affidavit filed in a federal court that many of the non -citizens who were deported had no criminal record in the United States because “they have only been in the United States for a short period of time.”
The American representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speaks with the media after the United States representatives voted to approve the sweeping of expenses and taxes of the president of the United States, in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, UU., July 3, 2025.
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The Democrats letter also highlighted the reports of The New York Times that said the agreement between the United States and Bukele, also included an agreement to return some of the main leaders of the MS-13 gang that supposedly had knowledge of a “corrupt treatment” between Bukele and the gang “that has played an important role in the decrease in the violence of the gangs in El Salvador.” ABC News has not independently confirmed that reports.
In addition to Salvador de USA agreement. UU., Legislators are asking the Trump administration to provide information on how to issue migrants with valid asylum claims or retention of elimination orders, and the convention against torture protection claims before they are eliminated from the country.
“The Congress has the right and the obligation to supervise the executive branch and determine which agreements our government has attacked with a foreign dictator to imprison the persons seized in the United States in an effort to place them beyond the scope of our courts,” they wrote.
The signatories of the letter were the representatives Jamie Raskin, of Maryland; Bennie Thompson, from Mississippi; Robert García, from California; and Gregory Meeks, from New York.
